Question: Jeff Posey played college football for the university that is a member of what conference?

Context articles: Southern Miss Golden Eagles football
Ike Armstrong
William C. Heiss
Jeff Posey
1940 Big Ten Conference football season
Joe Ruetz
Whitey Wistert
Jack Crangle
Aldo Donelli
DeVier Posey

The Southern Miss Golden Eagles football program represents the University of Southern Mississippi in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision.
 The Eagles are members of Conference USA and play their home games at M. M. Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Ike J. Armstrong (June 8, 1895 – September 4, 1983) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and track, and college athletics administrator.
 He served as the head football coach at the University of Utah from 1925 to 1949, compiling a record of 141–55–15.
 Under Armstrong, Utah won 13 conference championships, seven in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and six in the Mountain States Conference.
 Armstrong's 25-year tenure is the longest of any Utah Utes football head coach and his 141 wins are the most in program history.
 Armstrong also coached Utah's basketball and track teams and served as the school's athletic director.
 He attended Drake University where he played college football as a fullback.
 From 1950 to 1963, he served the athletic director at the University of Minnesota.
 Armstrong was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1957.
 He died at the age of 88 of pneumonia at the Flagship Convalescent Home in Corona Del Mar, California on September 4, 1983.
William C. "Bill" Heiss, Jr. (born c. 1923) is a former American football player and coach of multiple sports.
 He served as the head football coach at Adams State College (1948–1949), St. Cloud State University (1950), Colorado College (1951–1953), and the University of Northern Colorado (1963–1965), compiling a career college football record of 40–34–5.
 Heiss was also the head basketball coach at Colorado College for one season in 1951–52, tallying a mark of 2–14, and the head baseball coach at the University of Denver from 1955 to 1959, amassing a record of 70–61–1.
 His 1957 baseball team won the Skyline Conference championship.
 Heiss played college football at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the mid-1940s.
Jeffery Lavell Posey (born August 14, 1975 in Bassfield, Mississippi) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League.
 He was signed by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent in 1998.
 He played college football at Southern Mississippi.
The 1940 Big Ten Conference football season was the 45th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference (also known as the Western Conference) and was a part of the 1940 college football season.
 The University of Chicago terminated its football program after the 1939 season, leaving only nine conference members fielding football teams.
 However, Chicago remained a member of the conference and participated in other sports, and the conference remained known generally as the Big Ten.
Joseph Hubert Ruetz (October 21, 1916 – January 2, 2003) was a professional football player in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) for the Chicago Rockets in 1946 and 1948.
 Prior to that he played college football while attending the University of Notre Dame.
 He played guard for the Irish with the exception of playing one season at quarterback.
 In 1938, he graduated from Notre Dame with cum laude honors.
 Ruetz played in the 1938 College All-Star Game and his team upset Sammy Baugh and the Washington Redskins.
 During World War II, he was a Navy physical education instructor and pilot.
 During that time he played for the famed Saint Mary's Pre-Flight football team.
 He was named an All-Navy All-American by sportswriter Grantland Rice in 1942.
 After the war, Ruetz studied at the University of Chicago and played two seasons with the Chicago Rockets of the All-America Football Conference.
 In 1950, he then was an assistant and head coach at St. Mary's before joining Chuck Taylor's football staff at Stanford University and helping guide the team to the 1952 Rose Bowl.
 Ruetz later worked as a fund-raiser for Cardinal athletics, before succeeding Taylor as athletic director in 1972.
 He then "saved" the East-West Shrine Game by convincing Stanford to allow it to be played at the school, where it remained until its move to Pacific Bell Park in 2001.
 Joe also launched the head coaching career of Bill Walsh in 1977, when he hired him as Stanford's football coach.
 He also instituted a long football series with Notre Dame, before retiring in 1979.
 He later served as a fund-raising consultant to the Psoriasis Research Institute in Palo Alto, California.
Francis Michael "Whitey" Wistert (February 20, 1912 – April 23, 1985) was an American football and baseball player.
 He played college football and college baseball at the University of Michigan.
 Wistert was the first of the three Wistert brothers—he was succeeded by Albert (Al) and Alvin—who were named All-American tackles at Michigan and later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
 He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1967.
 During his time at Michigan, Wistert played on three consecutive Big Ten Conference football championships teams, including two that won back-to-back national championships.
 He was also Big Ten Conference MVP in baseball in college and later played for Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds.
 The Wistert brothers all wore jersey No. 11 at Michigan and are among the seven players who have had their numbers retired by the Michigan Wolverines football program.
 Their number will be put back into circulation starting on November 10, 2012 before a Michigan home game against Northwestern as part of the Michigan Football Legend program.
Walter Francis "Jack" Crangle (June 8, 1899 – August 31, 1944) was an American football fullback.
 He played college football for the University of Illinois and was selected as an All-American in 1920 and 1921.
 He was a member of Illinois' Big Ten Conference championship teams in 1919 and 1920.
 He played one season of professional football for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League.
 He was selected as a second-team All-NFL player by Collyers Eye Magazine in 1923.
 He also played minor league baseball in 1924 for Elgin in the Chicago League.
 Crangle later became a football and basketball coach at St. Viator College, head baseball coach and assistant football coach under Gwinn Henry at the University of Missouri and assistant football coach at St. Louis University.
 In his later years, he worked for the Aluminum Company of America and operated a filling station north of Columbia, Missouri.
 Crangle died at his home in Independence, Missouri at age 45 in 1944.
 Following Crangle's death in 1944, Jack Ryan of the "Chicago Daily News" wrote that Crangle "rates high among the many good backs Bob Zuppke developed at the state university."
 Howard Millard of the "Decatur Review" wrote: "It doesn't seem possible that Jack Crangle, the big, easy going, likeable fellow, probably the greatest fullback in all Illinois University history, is dead."
 Crangle was survived by his widow, Marjorie.
Aldo Teo "Buff" Donelli (July 22, 1907 – August 9, 1994) was an American football player and coach, soccer player, and college athletics administrator.
 He served as the head football coach at Duquesne University from 1939 to 1942, Boston University from 1947 to 1956, and Columbia University from 1957 to 1967, compiling a career college football coaching record of 105–107–8.
 Donelli was also a head coach in the National Football League (NFL), with the Pittsburgh Steelers for part of the 1941 season and with the Cleveland Rams in 1944, tallying a career mark of 4–11 in the NFL.
 From 1951 to 1955 he was the athletic director at Boston University.
 Donelli played college football at Duquesne and was an assistant football coach at his alma mater from 1930 to 1938, before being promoted to head coach.
 He played soccer with a number of clubs in the 1920s and 1930s and was a member of the United States men's national soccer team during the 1934 FIFA World Cup.
 He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
DeVier Stewart Posey (born March 15, 1990) is a Canadian football wide receiver who is currently a member of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
 He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft.
 He played college football at Ohio State.
 He was also a member of the New York Jets and the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL).