Southern Miss, Old Dominion and Marshall announced this afternoon their intentions to leave Conference USA, effective June 30, 2022. This summer’s departure date is an expedited mark from the July 1, 2023 timeline that was announced by the programs in October, when the schools originally announced their intentions to leave for the Sun Belt Conference.
Each program released statements announcing that they would no longer compete in Conference USA following June 30, while not announcing a specific destination following that date. Both the Sun Belt and Conference USA have not released statements at the time.
In each of the three statements, each program states that they “(A)dvised the Conference in early December 2021 of the plans to terminate its membership.