Conference USA football has been noticeably impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but some schools have been hit harder than others.
Since August 26, roughly the start of the 2020 season, at least 33 games featuring FBS opponents have been canceled or postponed. Conference USA football represented at least one part in 14 of those games.
Rice football announced its intention to delay its season until Oct. 24, but the rest of the conference (excluding Old Dominion) has been trying to play for more than a month. So, how’s it going?
In total, 11 conference schools have had at least one game impacted by COVID-19. To this point, Western Kentucky and MTSU have not had a game canceled since the season began. MTSU actually added a game, sliding into an open date against UTSA when the Roadrunners’ original opponent (Memphis) had to back out.
Excluding Rice, Charlotte and FAU are the only schools to have more games postponed than games played through seven weeks. This assumes all games scheduled to be played as of Saturday morning are still played.
Here is the list of games that were not played as scheduled for each Conference USA team, including the reason for the postponement/cancelation. The count to the right of the school name (2 – 1/1) represents the total number of games postponed. The number in the middle represents games postponed by the school (2 – 1/1) and their opponent on the right (2 – 1/1).
Charlotte (4 – 2/2)
- at UNC (COVID-related postponement by Charlotte)
- at Georgia State (COVID-related postponement by Georgia State, later admittedly an error)
- vs FAU (COVID-related postponement by FAU)
- vs FIU (COVID-related postponement by Charlotte)
FAU (3 – 2/1)
- at Georgia Southern (COVID-related postponement by FAU)
- vs USF (COVID-related postponement by USF)
- at Southern Miss (COVID-related postponement by FAU)
FIU (1 – 1/0)
- at Charlotte (COVID-related postponement by Charlotte)
Louisiana Tech (1 – 1/0)
- at Baylor (COVID-related postponement by Louisana Tech)
Marshall (2 – 0/2)
- at ECU (COVID-related postponement by ECU)
- vs Rice (Rice delays start of its season)
North Texas (1 – 1/0)
- at Houston (COVID-related postponement by North Texas)
Rice (2 – 2/0)
- at Marshall (Rice delays start of its season)
- vs UAB (Rice delays start of its season)
Southern Miss (2 – 1/1)
- vs FAU (COVID-related postponement by FAU)
- at UTEP (COVID-related postponement by Southern Miss)
UAB (1 – 0/1)
- vs Rice (Rice delays start of its season)
UTSA (1 – 0/1)
- vs Memphis (COVID-related postponement by Memphis)
UTEP (1 – 0/1)
- vs Southern Miss (COVID-related postponement by Southern Miss)
