Conference USA has been operating under 13 teams since last year (#FreeUAB). Due to the conference still wishing to pursue an 8-game conference schedule while still wishing to see C-USA East teams play two C-USA West teams on a rotating basis, it’s created an imbalanced schedule for some teams in C-USA East.
Two East Division matchups had to be removed in order to create a balanced schedule. According to Conference USA Assistant Commissioner for Football Operations Russ Anderson, a computer program generates the C-USA schedule for each team and at the time of determining which two matchups would be removed the program at random chose MTSU-ODU and Charlotte-WKU.