The reason this post didn’t come out on Friday, when the news actually broke, is because I’ve been dealing with a lot of family dealings that have eaten up a chunk of my time. It happens to many people and unfortunately, I’m riding that merry go round of less than stellar life events that requires a large portion of time. Things seem to be settling down, so hopefully Bearcats Blog will be back up and running smoothly in June.
The AAC held their big meetings last week to shake a lot of things out. One of them concerned the upcoming 2015 football season, where the league will have 12 members and an 8 game conference schedule, as well as a conference championship game.
The league split things east and west. The schools play their entire division and 3 of the other division. They will play everyone at least 1 time in four years.
East
Cincinnati
UCF
East Carolina
Temple
UConn
South Florida
West
Houston
Memphis
Southern Methodist
Tulsa
Navy
Tulane
The AAC also announced a couple of notes that I’ll just copy and paste instead of trying to summarize.
• 2014 Regular Season Tiebreaker Procedure: For the 2014 season, the American Athletic Conference Football Champion will be the team that finishes the regular season with the highest winning percentage in conference games. If more than one team has the same winning percentage, the tied teams are declared co-champions. To determine the College Football Playoff/Host Bowl representative, the co-champion ranked highest by the College Football Playoff Committee will be eligible to receive the automatic bid shared with Conference USA, the Mid-American, Mountain West, and Sun Belt conferences.
• Eighth Official: The American will add an eighth on-field official, who will be positioned behind the quarterback, for all of its conference games in 2014 for a one-season trial. The eighth official will also be used in all of Navy’s games in which game officials are assigned by The American. The conference’s head football coaches recommended implementation primarily to enhance student-athlete safety.
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