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Is 2017 the year of the running back in C-USA?

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IRVING, Texas — Conference USA — like the rest of college football — has, in recent years, become as pass-happy, quarterback-centric a league as there is in the country.

Topping the 4,000-yard plateau is quickly becoming the norm for quarterbacks in C-USA, whereas prior to 2008, nobody had even sniffed such an accomplishment. Take last season, for instance: two of the nation’s top five quarterbacks in terms of passing yards came out of C-USA, and both threw for more than 4,300 yards. In 2014 and 2015, the No.