Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.
Against other conferences, 2022
Conference USA teams are 22–29 outside the conference.
Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.
Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. † Our membership records (CollegeFootballData.com) date the move to another season, or don’t show it. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in 351 of 352 team-seasons from 1996. the member tables in the conference’s Wikipedia article agree with ours in all 7 team-seasons from 1998. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.
Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1996); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.
The money
Conference USA is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2025 reports $51.8 million in revenue, $19.7 million of it from college football playoff revenue, and $52.8 million in expenses; it ended the year with $22.1 million in assets. Its best-paid, commissioner Judy Macleod, was paid $1.4 million.
From the organization’s IRS Form 990, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS’s e-file data. Fiscal years end in June; top pay is the best-paid person’s total compensation on the return, listed for e-filed years (2018 on). Grants are the ones the conference lists on Schedule I; bowl payments are the ones bowls list on theirs. See every filing at ProPublica (EIN 36-4021594).
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