With all of the conference moves and expansion in recent years, there is a need for a weigh-station in college sports. In the mid 90s, Conference USA was created to effectively fill that role when a group of loosely-aligned, mostly independent sides organized their own league while each school dreamed of moving up the food chain at some point. None of the original C-USA remains, with most of the teams now playing in the American. We're not sure AAC commissioner Mike Aresco much cares about his league being referred to as the “New Conference USA,” but his only argument would be semantics. “Old Conference USA” might be more appropriate as six teams make the move from CUSA to the American this fall after the AAC was raided by a hungry Big 12 for three of its flagship programs — Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF, who combined have won seven of the last nine American titles. That's a lot of power to lose in one fell swoop.
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