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In college football, the Group of Five conferences (or simply Group of Five, abbreviated G5) are athletic conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of NCAA Division I, the highest level of collegiate football in the United States. As designated by the College Football Playoff (CFP) in 2014, the Group of Five conferences include the American Athletic Conference (The American), Conference USA (C-USA), Mid-American Conference (MAC), Mountain West Conference (MW), and Sun Belt Conference (Sun Belt). It should be noted that the phrase "Group of Five" is not defined officially anywhere in the NCAA bylaws.

* Hawaii and Navy are football-only affiliate members of their respective Group of Five conferences.

^† Little Rock, Texas–Arlington, and Wichita State do not sponsor football despite their membership in Group of Five conferences.

With the formation of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) in 1998, the precursors to Group of Five conferences were known as BCS Non-Automatic Qualifying (BCS Non-AQ) conferences. The system provided automatic BCS Bowl berths for six NCAA Division I-A conferences including the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-10, and SEC, and thus those conferences were named BCS Automatic Qualifying (BCS AQ) conferences. The other four NCAA Division I-A conferences including the Big West Conference, Conference USA, Mid-American Conference, and Western Athletic Conference were designated as BCS Non-AQ conferences. The Mountain West Conference was founded the following season in 1999 and became the fifth BCS Non-AQ conference. After the 2000 season, the Big West discontinued their sponsorship of football, and in 2001 the Sun Belt Conference began sponsoring football effectively replacing the Big West as a BCS Non-AQ conference. After more than a decade of stability, the WAC's discontinuation of football left the system with four Non-AQ conferences for the final season of the BCS in 2013.

The College Football Playoff (CFP) replaced the BCS in 2014 and redefined the American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, Mid-American Conference, Mountain West Conference, and Sun Belt Conference as Group of Five (G5) conferences. With the evolution of the system, the "non-AQ" term no longer accurately described that group of conferences because the highest ranked G5 conference champion was to be rewarded with automatic access to the most prestigious bowl games (formerly known as BCS bowls, now known as New Year's Six bowls). NCAA Division I FBS independent schools were not given automatic access to the NY6 bowl games and thus are not considered G5 schools.

Each FBS conference receives an equal revenue share from the academic performance pool for each of its football programs that meet the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate (APR) standard for participation in a bowl game.^[1]

The CFP also awards the Group of Five conferences a base revenue sum that the conferences distribute as they choose.^[1]

The G5 conference whose champion participates in a New Year's Six bowl game receives an additional revenue sum plus a payment for bowl expenses.^[1]

The highest ranked Group of Five conference champion earns an automatic bid to a College Football Playoff New Year's Six (NY6) bowl game. G5 conference teams have recorded three wins and one loss in NY6 bowl games.

Also, the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team occasionally hosts games at Independence Stadium. The Saints did play a game in Shreveport against the Dallas Cowboys during the 2006 NFL preseason. Tulane

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Cyber Storm is an annual day-long cyber security competition that pits several teams of students in a cyberspace battle to test skills in network defense and attack strategies.^[2]

1916: Louisiana Tech vs. Louisiana State Normal

1940-1947: Centenary

1947-1962: Grambling

1959: LSU vs. Baylor

1977, 1979: Louisiana Tech vs. North Texas State

2006: Louisiana College vs. East Texas Baptist