American Athletic Conference Announces 2020-21 Football Schedule Format
11/18/2019 12:02:00 PM | Football
Each team to play each American opponent at least once during the 2020-21 cycle
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco announced the two-year football scheduling model for conference games that will be in place for the 2020 and 2021 football seasons.
The scheduling model was approved by The American's athletic directors last week at the conference's fall meeting in Philadelphia.
The 2020 season will be the first for The American with 11 football-playing institutions. The 2020 and 2021 schedules will include eight conference games –four home games and four road contests – for each team in each season. Each team will face the other 10 teams at least once in the two-year cycle.
In 2020, Tulsa's home games will be against Cincinnati, ECU, Tulane and SMU with road contests at UCF, USF, Houston and Navy. Tulsa will not play Memphis or Temple in 2020.
For the 2021 season, Tulsa will host Houston, Memphis, Navy and Temple, while going on the road to Cincinnati, USF, SMU and Tulane. The Hurricane will not play UCF and ECU that year during the 2021 campaign.
"This scheduling model provides balance and competitive equity and will contribute to the exciting seasons to which we have become accustomed in the American Athletic Conference," said Aresco. "It is a fair model that was unanimously supported by our athletic directors."
The American will not have a divisional format for its 2020 and 2021 football seasons. The conference will determine the procedures for determining the participants in the American Athletic Conference Football Championship at a later date.
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