Editing Conference USA (section)

===2014–15 realignment===
[[File:Conference USA Locations 3.png|thumb|Conference USA members after the 2014–15 realignment]]

On November 27, 2012, it was announced that Tulane would leave the conference to join the Big East in all sports, and East Carolina would join the Big East for football only (ECU's membership was upgraded to all-sports in March 2013 after the Big East's non-football members, except ACC-bound [[University of Notre Dame|Notre Dame]], announced they were leaving to form a new conference which took the [[Big East Conference|Big East]] name, leaving the football-playing members to become the [[American Athletic Conference]]). Conference USA responded by adding [[Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders|Middle Tennessee]] and [[Florida Atlantic Owls|Florida Atlantic]], both from the Sun Belt.

On April 1, 2013, Conference USA announced it was adding Western Kentucky, also from the Sun Belt, to offset Tulsa's departure to The American in all sports which was confirmed the next day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/9122292/western-kentucky-announces-move-c-usa|title=Western Kentucky announces move to C-USA|date=April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/blog/bigeast/post/_/id/43297/tulsa-set-to-join-league-for-2014-15-season|title=Tulsa set to join league for 2014–15 season|date=April 2, 2013}}</ref>