C-USA Announces Kickoff Times

C-USA Announces Kickoff Times for Southern Miss, UAB games

Conference USA has confirmed game times for a pair of league games in October. FIU's inaugural C-USA game, on the road at Southern Miss, Saturday, Oct. 5, will kickoff at 4 p.m. ET. The Panthers' Homecoming match-up and C-USA home-opener versus UAB will begin at 7:30 p.m. Both games will broadcast on CSS.

A full schedule can be found at FIUSports.com. Additional game times could be announced a minimum of 12 days out and will be posted at FIUSports.com.

2013 FIU Football Schedule

Aug. 31 at Maryland (ESPN3); 12:30 p.m.

Sept. 6 UCF (CBS SN); 8 p.m.

Sept. 14 BETHUNE-COOKMAN; 6 p.m.

Sept. 21 at Louisville; 12 p.m.

Oct. 5 at Southern Miss*; 4 p.m. (CSS)

Oct. 12 UAB*; 7:30 p.m. [HOMECOMING] (CSS)

Oct. 26 LOUISIANA TECH*

Nov. 2 EAST CAROLINA*

Nov. 9 at Middle Tennessee* (FCS); 4 p.m.

Nov. 16 at UTEP*; 8 p.m.

Nov. 23 MARSHALL* (FOX)

Nov. 29 at Florida Atlantic* (FOX); 3 p.m.

* denotes Conference USA Games

Home games at Alfonso Field at FIU Stadium are capitalized.

Single-game tickets for FIU Football are now on-sale. Fans can conveniently purchase single-game tickets for the Panthers' inaugural Conference USA home schedule on-line at FIUSports.com.

Tickets to the home-opener versus in-state rival UCF on Friday, Sept. 6 are available for purchase through one of several affordable season-ticket packages. Season tickets can be purchased or renewed online at FIUSports.com or by calling the FIU Athletics Ticket Office at (305) FIU-GAME.

FIU's 2013 six-game home schedule features non-conference foes UCF (Sept. 6) and Bethune-Cookman (Sept. 14) and C-USA opponents UAB (Oct. 12), Louisiana Tech (Oct. 26), East Carolina (Nov. 2) and Marshall (Nov. 23). The 2013 Homecoming game will be on Oct. 12 vs. the UAB Blazers.