With the legal fight over, Southern Miss will officially join the Sun Belt this summer
The legal fight has come to a quick end.
Conference USA officially announced on Tuesday it had reached a resolution with Southern Miss, Marshall and Old Dominion that officially separates the the schools from the conference at the end of this academic year.
The three schools will compete in the Sun Belt Conference beginning July 1.
Southern Miss, along with the other two departing schools, first notified C-USA of its intentions to leave in December.
Conference USA was not willing to part ways so soon and released a football schedule in February with all three schools in it, and also released a statement on the same day saying it was prepared for legal action.
All three schools filed suit against C-USA when the league demanded arbitration and all three received temporary victories that were enough to hinder the league’s efforts to retain the schools.
The Sun Belt released its 2022 schedule on March 1 and it featured all four incoming programs. The Golden Eagles are set to play their first Sun Belt Conference football game on October 8 at Troy.
