With Tulane finishing the AAC's bowl mania, I'm glad to say we finished with a 4-3 record; tying with the Mountain West and Pac 12.

In contrasts to other conferences, I feel like we are a middle of the pack conference with room for improvement next year.


SEC: 7-2
AAC: 4-3
Pac 12: 4-3
MWC: 4-3
ACC: 4-6
Big 10: 4-5
Big 12: 1-5

Conference W L Pct.
Southeastern 7 2 .778
Independents 2 1 .667
American Athletic 4 3 .571
Mountain West 4 3 .571
Pac-12 4 3 .571
Mid-American 3 3 .500
Sun Belt 2 2 .500
Big Ten 4 5 .444
Atlantic Coast 4 6 .400
Conference USA 3 5 .375
Big 12 1 5 .167

Good year for all the G5, really. Bad year for BIG “12.”

Including the 1-1 results from the G4 vs G4 and A5 vs A5 bowls left to play, the final results will be:

Independents: 2-1
AAC: 4-3
A5: 21-22
G4: 13-14

(01-04-2020 06:39 PM)UCF_SystemsEng Wrote:  .
Including the 1-1 results from the G4 vs G4 and A5 vs A5 bowls left to play, the final results will be:

Independents: 2-1
AAC: 4-3
A5: 21-22
G4: 13-14

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Independents: 2-1 (.667)
AAC: 4-3 (.571)
A5: 21-22 (.488)
G4: 13-14 (.481)

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NON-P5: 19-18 (.514)

P5/A5: 21-22 (.488)

The SunBelt and MAC have one more bowl game to be played Monday 1/6. Louisiana is heavily favored and if they win, it would being the Belt to 60% (3-2) this bowl season. That said, as I mentioned in a different thread, these match-ups are not representative and really can't be used to draw any conference comparisons. AAC has "better" ties with P5 conferences which will likely lead to a lower percentage relative to the SBC, CUSA, MAC and MWC but even the AAC's ties don't match the level of games played by conferences like the SEC. The current system of bowl tie-in contracts really doesn't allow for bowls to seek out the "belt possible" games and makes the games even less meaningful for comparison purposes.

Given how we have tended to drop the ball in the bowl season, Im very pleased with the overall bowl record this year. If Memphis could have hit a few more big plays, it would have been spectacular 5-2 record that included a top ten access bowl win (plus Memphis would likely have finished in the top 10 of the final polls). That would have been sweet. Still---I'll take 4-3 and a very respectable performance in the access bowl.

Dam. Way to go AAC.