The UAB Blazers college football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the East Division of Conference USA (C-USA). The Blazers have played their home games at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama since 1991.[1] Since their inaugural 1991 season, UAB has played nearly 200 regular season games, and as of the 2008 season compiled an overall record of 95 wins, 105 losses, 2 ties, and appeared in a single bowl game.[2]
For the 1991-92 seasons, UAB competed as a Division III independent, unaffiliated with a conference. As a Division III school, the Blazers compiled an overall record of 11 wins, 6 losses, and 2 ties before moving up to Division I-AA for the 1993 season.[3] Competing as a Division I-AA independent for the 1993 through 1995 seasons, UAB compiled an overall record of 21 wins and 12 losses as an I-AA school before moving up to Division I-A.[2] The Blazers entered the 1996 season as an I-A independent,[4] and in their first I-A game, UAB was defeated by the in-state rival, the Auburn Tigers 29–0. They finished their first I-A season with 5 wins and 6 losses. Already a participating member of Conference USA in other sports, on November 13, 1996, UAB was admitted to the league as a football playing member beginning with the 1999 season.[5] Since joining C-USA in 1999, the Blazers have compiled a record of 61 wins and 91 losses through the 2011 season.[2]
| ^ | Bowl game berth |
| T | Shared standing |
[A] Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[8]
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