Dec 18 | Football
DALLAS (SMU/AAC) - Commissioner Mike Aresco has announced the schedule format for the 2015-18 American Athletic Conference football seasons, setting SMU's league opponents for the next four seasons.
The 2015 season will be the first in The American's new 12-team, two-division format. The American Athletic Conference East Division will include UCF, Cincinnati, UConn, East Carolina, USF and Temple. The West Division will consist of Houston, Memphis, Navy, SMU, Tulane and Tulsa.
The conference schedule will include 48 regular-season games that will have each of the 12 teams in The American playing eight league contests annually. Each team will face the other five teams in its own division, as well as three teams from the other division, ensuring that each school will play every conference opponent at home and on the road at least once in the four-year cycle.
The East and West division winners, determined by final conference record, will meet in the first American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game, which will be played at the home site of one of the division winners.
"This format is a sensible and fair model that will protect traditional rivalries and allow each school to travel across our geographic footprint on a regular basis," said Aresco. "It will make for an exciting and extremely competitive regular season, adding to the drama which annually makes the college football regular season the best in all of sports, and it will produce two strong and tested teams who will then compete in our inaugural conference championship game."
SMU AAC Opponents 2015-182015Home: East Carolina, Temple, Tulsa, TulaneAway: Houston, Memphis, Navy, USFDo Not Play: UCF, Cincinnati, UConn
2016Home: Houston, Memphis, Navy, USFAway: East Carolina, Temple, Tulsa, TulaneDo Not Play: UCF, Cincinnati, UConn
2017Home: UCF, UConn, Tulane, TulsaAway: Cincinnati, Houston, Memphis, NavyDo Not Play: East Carolina, USF, Temple
2018Home: Cincinnati, Houston, Memphis, NavyAway: UCF, UConn, Tulane, TulsaDo Not Play: East Carolina, USF, Temple
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