The Gamecocks also played in the Metro in that league's final men's soccer season of 1994.

South Carolina was not invited to remain as a men's soccer member after the merger.

When the UK–Vanderbilt rivalry was first played in 1991, Vanderbilt was a men's soccer independent, later becoming a single-sport member of the Sun Belt Conference for the 1995 and 1996 seasons and the Missouri Valley Conference from 1997 until the school dropped men's soccer after the 2005 season.

South Carolina did not regularly schedule Vanderbilt at the time, as they had primarily been independent (except for the final two years of the Metro's existence); in 2005, South Carolina's return to the reunified C-USA led to UK joining that league.

[5] Both Carolina and UK won two C-USA tournament titles before moving to the Sun Belt Conference.