About The Championship Game
Conference USA will host its 16th annual football championship game in 2020. The team with the highest league winning percentage will serve as host site for the game. The title game will feature champions from the East and West divisions of the league. Ten different schools have hosted the first 15 championship games. Florida Atlantic has won two of the last three championships, posting the two largest victory margins in title game history, 49-6 over UAB last season and 41-17 over North Texas in 2017. Both games were played in Boca Raton, Florida. UAB earned its first C-USA Championship in 2018 with a 27-25 victory at Middle Tennessee, avenging a loss to the Blue Raiders in the final week of the regular season with the closest margin in title game annals. WKU became just the second team in league history to win back-to-back Conference USA Football Championship Games in in 2016, defeating Louisiana Tech, 58-44, in what was the highest scoring conference championship game in FBS history at the time. In 2015, WKU became the first league school to go undefeated in C-USA play and then win the Championship Game, defeating Southern Miss, 45-28. Marshall took its first C-USA title in 2014 with a triumph over Louisiana Tech in Huntington, West Virginia. In 2013, Rice won its first C-USA Football title with a victory over Marshall at Rice Stadium. Southern Miss won the 2011 C-USA Championship when the nationally-ranked Golden Eagles defeated previously undefeated Houston on the Cougars’ home field. Former members East Carolina, Tulsa and UCF each won two championship games, while Houston claimed one crown.