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The 2024 American Athletic Conference football season is the 33rd NCAA Division I FBS Football season of the American Athletic Conference (The American), the 12th under its current name after the breakup of the former Big East Conference (whose charter legally belongs to The American), and the 10th season of the College Football Playoff in place.
In 2021, the American's Cincinnati Bearcats were the first team to play in the College Football Playoff (CFP), and were the only team to do so under its four-team format. Beginning in 2024 season, at least one G5 conference champion is effectively guaranteed entry to the College Football Playoff under an expanded 12-team format.
The championship game is now played by the two teams that achieved the best record in regular-season conference play. While The American has had 14 football members since 2023, it has not split into divisions for football. [111] Like the conference itself, football experienced much transition through its history.
While that move also won’t officially materialize until July 2024 (there’s also the College Football Playoff’s expansion to 12 teams in 2024), 14 FBS schools will officially move conferences ...
The realignment brought The American up to 14 football members for the 2023 season. This will be SMU's final season in the American before they move to the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2024. [3] In response to SMU's departure, the American announced the addition of Army as a football-only member beginning in 2024. Army currently competes as an ...
The season is the tenth since the former Big East Conference dissolved and became the American Athletic Conference and the ninth season of the College Football Playoff in place. The American is considered a member of the Group of Five (G5) together with Conference USA , the MAC , Mountain West Conference and the Sun Belt Conference .
The decade-long run of the four-team playoff format that started in the 2014 season has coincided with a financial boom for college football, another round of conference realignment and the ...
The American Athletic Conference has ramped up interest in adding Air Force as a member to put all three service academies into the same league for the first time, a person with knowledge of the ...