We are heading towards the mid-way point of the college football season. Many teams have already or on the verge of punching a ticket to one of the many bowl games at the end of the year. One of the conferences is the AAC. I was given the assignment of reviewing the five games that […]
Orlando, FL — This championship game was a crown jewel duel for the American Athletic Conference. It pitted the East Division’s undefeated University of Central Florida Knights against the Western Division-winning Memphis Tigers. Between the two teams, there was only one loss for the season, and the Tigers suffered that back in September on their first […]
UCF’s 49-42 win Black Friday over the Bulls of the University of South Florida is going down as one of the top games in 2017. Not just for either of the two rival teams – but the whole of college football. For the Knights specifically, it locked up the East-Division Championship in the American Athletic […]
The regular season drew to a close this past week for college football. But while headlines were a glow around Pitt beating Miami or Auburn toppling another No.1 in Alabama, it was the 2017 edition of the War on I-4 featuring No.23 (AP) USF facing No.12 (AP) UCF that turned the most heads. A contest I […]
The American Athletic Conference (AAC) is officially prepared to declare half of its championship. No. 17 (AP) Memphis, stampeded over the Southern Methodist Mustangs in a 66-45 win in Tennessee to cement the West division. SMU was the only hope for any teams in the division to have a shot to claw back on top. […]
The clock is winding down on the NCAA football season and the American Athletic Conference (AAC) and there is still much left to be decided. Last week’s featured game was a face-off of two West-Division powers, Southern Methodist University and Navy. Both teams were trying to keep themselves mathematically alive to represent the West in […]
The American Athletic Conference (AAC) was back in action and in the business of self-inflicting wounds. It was East vs. West as the Houston Cougars took down the Bulls of South Florida in a comeback win, 28-24. The Cougars not only knocked USF out of the list of “undefeated’s” but out of the AP Poll’s […]
Week Eight has brought some achievements to the American Athletic Conference (AAC) that are worth celebrating. First, the Universities of Central and South Florida not only remain at 6-0 and 7-0 respectively. The University of Memphis stays alive after a 17-point deficit to get to 6-1 inching them up to #24. That means three nationally […]
Another compelling week has come and gone in the American Athletic Conference (AAC) and there’s some movement in the rankings with the conference and the Top 25 nationwide. The Universities of Central and South Florida continue to represent the AAC at 20 and 16, respectively. The bad news for the American is that Navy has […]
With five weeks in the books, the American Athletic Conference is rising to the to top as several other big names fall out of national favor in the polls. The Universities of Central and South Florida have broken the stigma of so-called directional schools while Navy has begun the season undefeated. All three programs have […]