The acrimonious departure of Old Dominion, Marshall and Southern Miss from Conference USA to the Sun Belt has been finalized, the league announced on Tuesday in a joint statement with the three schools.
The schools are officially headed to the Sun Belt for the 2022 football season, ending a spate of legal wrangling that included court injunctions to delay arbitration.
The terms of the separation agreement were not released. By leaving at the end of this academic year, Old Dominion, Marshall and Southern Miss broke the Conference USA by-laws that require a 14-month notice before leaving the league.
That caused the legal issues, which came into focus after the Sun Belt had already placed the three schools on the league’s football schedule for 2022 when it was released on March 1.
This means that Conference USA will play with 11 members next season. A…
