From August 28th to September 4th, all 14 Conference USA member programs played a football game — something that couldn’t be said at any point last year. The opening week of games provided us with the return of Old Dominion to the college football landscape after opting out of last year, a pair of Power Five victories and an overall impressive showing from the league.
Let’s take a look at the three things we learned from the week in C-USA.
Charlotte Gets a Power Five Victory
When Will Healy took the job at Charlotte in December of 2018, he made it clear that his number one goal was to change the identity of the 49ers — by actually providing them with an identity.