 In the 2011 season, they joined the Colonial Athletic Association of the FCS and added conference games to their schedule, playing there until 2013.On July 1, 2014, Old Dominion football joined the FBS's Conference USA (their other sports teams joined the conference on July 1, 2013).According to sports historian Peter Stewart, in September 1930 a reporter asked Coach Tommy Scott whether the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary should have a football team.