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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.
The American Athletic Conference first sponsored football in 2013. This is a list of its annual standings since establishment. This is a list of its annual standings since establishment. [ 1 ]
2011 - The Great American Conference (GAC) was founded. Charter members included six schools from the state of Arkansas (Arkansas Tech, Arkansas–Monticello, Harding, Henderson State, Ouachita Baptist, and Southern Arkansas from the Gulf South Conference) and three schools from the state of Oklahoma (East Central, Southeastern Oklahoma State, and Southwestern Oklahoma State from the Lone Star ...
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.
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 ...
Conference USA is finalizing a plan to add Delaware in 2025, the league’s latest expansion with a school moving up from Division I college football’s second tier to the Bowl Subdivision, a ...
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 ...
Notes: Due to COVID-19, the Great American Conference suspended the fall 2020 football season. The conference also announced no in-conference competition for spring 2021 play. Schools scheduled own games if desired to play.