New-look AAC releases 2023 football schedule

IRVING, Texas– The American Athletic Conference on Tuesday launched its 2023 football schedule that consists of the league’s six incoming teams.Each of the 14 AAC

groups will play 8 conference games in a single-division format. The leading 2 teams in the standings will play in the conference championship game on Dec. 2. Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice, UAB and UTSA all formally join the AAC on July 1. Their relocation from Conference U.S.A. will be finished at the same time that existing AAC members Cincinnati, Houston and UCF depart for the Big 12 Conference.Editor’s Picks 2 Related Reigning AAC champ Tulane opens the season with

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in your home. It opens in your home on Sept. 2 against South Alabama, then hosts Southeastern Conference group Mississippi the next week.The Green Wave were ranked ninth in the final AP Top 25 for the 2022 season after going 12-2, a 10-win improvement from the previous season that marked the best in major college football history. They topped it with a 46-45 win in the Cotton Bowl over Southern California after scoring 16 points in the final 4:07 of the New Year’s 6 game.Navy, also amongst the 8 remaining AAC football schools, will open its season on Sept. 26 against Notre Dame in Dublin.Among the other highlighted nonconference games for AAC groups, South Florida will host SEC powerhouse Alabama on Sept. 16. That is a week after SMU plays

at Oklahoma, which will be the final season in the Huge 12 for the Sooners before they go to the SEC.Teams from the AAC will play 6 games each from the SEC and Big 12, and four versus the Big Ten.