The Memphis Tigers football team represents the University of Memphis in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) level. The Tigers compete in Conference USA until June 2013. Beginning in July of 2013, the Tigers will join the Big East Conference as an all-sports member. They play home games at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. Justin Fuente was formally introduced as the Tigers' head coach on December 8, 2011, as the replacement for former head coach Larry Porter.
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“Even tigers sometimes take naps.”
—Chinese proverb.
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)