AAC Football Media Virtual Media Day is Thursday

IRVING, Texas –– The unofficial start to the 2022 football season in the American Athletic Conference begins Thursday as the conference holds its annual media day virtually Thursday, July 28, available to fans exclusively on ESPN+.

ESPN college football announcers Kris Budden and Rene Ingoglia will join The American's Morgan Uber from the conference's state-of-the-art studio in Irving, Texas, for coverage that begins at 9 a.m. CT with the results of the conference's preseason media poll.

Tulsa's contingent of Head Coach Philip Montgomery along with quarterback Davis Brin and linebacker Justin Wright will be live on ESPN+ between 11:30-12 p.m. (CT)

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Commissioner Mike Aresco will deliver opening remarks after the announcement of the preseason poll and will answer questions from the national media before the 11 head coaches and select student-athletes hold their individual media sessions.

The program will also include additional segments, including interviews with College Football Playoff Executive Director Bill Hancock, Bowl Season Executive Director Nick Carparelli, Tulane Director of Athletics Troy Dannen, and Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Executive Director Brant Ringler among others.

The American is coming off an historic season in 2021 as Cincinnati was selected for the College Football Playoff and finished the season ranked No. 4 nationally. It marked the first College Football Playoff appearance by an American Athletic Conference team and the sixth time in eight seasons of the CFP era that The American was represented in the New Year's Six. Seven American Athletic Conference teams were selected for bowl games, while conference teams were a combined 3-1 in postseason games that were played.

The American also had three NCAA Consensus All-America selections (South Florida running back/return specialist Brian Battie, Cincinnati cornerback Ahmad Gardner, Houston cornerback/return specialist Marcus Jones), trailing only the SEC and Big Ten among FBS conferences. The American had the winners of the Paul Hornung Award (Jones), the Jim Thorpe Award (Cincinnati cornerback Coby Bryant) and the consensus National Coach of the Year (Cincinnati's Luke Fickell), and matched its best showing in the NFL Draft with 19 players selected in 2022.

Tulsa opens the 2022 football campaign at Wyoming on Sept. 3, and will open the home season against Northern Illinois a week later (Sept. 10). Season tickets can be purchased online at TulsaHurricane.com or by calling 918.631.4688.

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