UPDATE: I see now that there's already a discussion of the AAC schedule on the New Realignment Thread (https://csnbbs.com/thread-925473-post-18...18572777).

I'll be happy to remove this post if folks prefer.

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Quote:The 2023 season will be The American’s first with 14 football-playing institutions. The schedule format calls for each team to play eight conference games each year. Each team will face the other 13 conference teams at least twice during the four-year cycle – once at home and once on the road.

Six matchups will be played annually in this cycle: North Texas-SMU, UAB-Memphis, Rice-UTSA, Charlotte-East Carolina, Florida Atlantic-South Florida and Navy-Temple.

“This scheduling model fulfills all of the objectives that we identified as we look forward to competition among our 14 outstanding teams,” said Aresco. “Most important, it is a fair model that has the unanimous support of our athletic directors. It allows for all four-year student-athletes to play at all of our venues at least once during their careers. It reestablishes some longstanding geographic rivalries and provides a foundation for new rivalries to develop. It also provides all of our teams with annual access to the state of Texas and other important recruiting areas.”

The American will not have a divisional format during the four-year cycle. The top two teams in the final regular season standings will qualify for the American Athletic Conference Championship Game.

The 2023 conference schedule will be announced following the completion of the 2022 season.

https://theamerican.org/news/2022/11/9/a...asons.aspx

Rice and UTSA will play each other every year. The others will rotate.

Rice's AAC opponents will be:

2023
Home: SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic, East Carolina
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Charlotte

2024
Home: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Navy
Away: North Texas, SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic

2025
Home: UAB, Charlotte, East Carolina, Temple
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, Memphis, Navy

2026
Home: North Texas, UTSA, Tulane, Memphis
Away: SMU, UAB, East Carolina, Temple

FYI ... the "New Realignment Thread" thread had all the info about the American Announces Football Scheduling Model for 2023-26 Seasons
including the Futre Rice schedules this morning ... starting here: https://csnbbs.com/thread-925473-post-18...id18572777

(11-09-2022 02:51 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  UPDATE: I see now that there's already a discussion of the AAC schedule on the New Realignment Thread (https://csnbbs.com/thread-925473-post-18...18572777).

I'll be happy to remove this post if folks prefer.

. . . . .

Quote:The 2023 season will be The American’s first with 14 football-playing institutions. The schedule format calls for each team to play eight conference games each year. Each team will face the other 13 conference teams at least twice during the four-year cycle – once at home and once on the road.

Six matchups will be played annually in this cycle: North Texas-SMU, UAB-Memphis, Rice-UTSA, Charlotte-East Carolina, Florida Atlantic-South Florida and Navy-Temple.

“This scheduling model fulfills all of the objectives that we identified as we look forward to competition among our 14 outstanding teams,” said Aresco. “Most important, it is a fair model that has the unanimous support of our athletic directors. It allows for all four-year student-athletes to play at all of our venues at least once during their careers. It reestablishes some longstanding geographic rivalries and provides a foundation for new rivalries to develop. It also provides all of our teams with annual access to the state of Texas and other important recruiting areas.”

The American will not have a divisional format during the four-year cycle. The top two teams in the final regular season standings will qualify for the American Athletic Conference Championship Game.

The 2023 conference schedule will be announced following the completion of the 2022 season.

https://theamerican.org/news/2022/11/9/a...asons.aspx

Rice and UTSA will play each other every year. The others will rotate.

Rice's AAC opponents will be:

2023
Home: SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic, East Carolina
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Charlotte

2024
Home: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Navy
Away: North Texas, SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic

2025
Home: UAB, Charlotte, East Carolina, Temple
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, Memphis, Navy

2026
Home: North Texas, UTSA, Tulane, Memphis
Away: SMU, UAB, East Carolina, Temple

So no Navy, North Texas, UAB, Temple and Memphis in 2023. Our home schedule is nice with some old rivals, and the road schedule isn't brutal either (outside of UTSA I guess).

(11-09-2022 04:28 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  

(11-09-2022 02:51 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  UPDATE: I see now that there's already a discussion of the AAC schedule on the New Realignment Thread (https://csnbbs.com/thread-925473-post-18...18572777).

I'll be happy to remove this post if folks prefer.

. . . . .

Quote:The 2023 season will be The American’s first with 14 football-playing institutions. The schedule format calls for each team to play eight conference games each year. Each team will face the other 13 conference teams at least twice during the four-year cycle – once at home and once on the road.

Six matchups will be played annually in this cycle: North Texas-SMU, UAB-Memphis, Rice-UTSA, Charlotte-East Carolina, Florida Atlantic-South Florida and Navy-Temple.

“This scheduling model fulfills all of the objectives that we identified as we look forward to competition among our 14 outstanding teams,” said Aresco. “Most important, it is a fair model that has the unanimous support of our athletic directors. It allows for all four-year student-athletes to play at all of our venues at least once during their careers. It reestablishes some longstanding geographic rivalries and provides a foundation for new rivalries to develop. It also provides all of our teams with annual access to the state of Texas and other important recruiting areas.”

The American will not have a divisional format during the four-year cycle. The top two teams in the final regular season standings will qualify for the American Athletic Conference Championship Game.

The 2023 conference schedule will be announced following the completion of the 2022 season.

https://theamerican.org/news/2022/11/9/a...asons.aspx

Rice and UTSA will play each other every year. The others will rotate.

Rice's AAC opponents will be:

2023
Home: SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic, East Carolina
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Charlotte

2024
Home: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Navy
Away: North Texas, SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic

2025
Home: UAB, Charlotte, East Carolina, Temple
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, Memphis, Navy

2026
Home: North Texas, UTSA, Tulane, Memphis
Away: SMU, UAB, East Carolina, Temple

So no Navy, North Texas, UAB, Temple and Memphis in 2023. Our home schedule is nice with some old rivals, and the road schedule isn't brutal either (outside of UTSA I guess).

I guess they had to put SMU and UNT together as rivals due to geography but think SMU would have been better pair with us due to being small private schools with a lot of history. Also maybe UNT better match with UTSA.

(11-09-2022 02:51 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  2023
Home: SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic, East Carolina
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Charlotte

2024
Home: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Navy
Away: North Texas, SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic

2025
Home: UAB, Charlotte, East Carolina, Temple
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, Memphis, Navy

2026
Home: North Texas, UTSA, Tulane, Memphis
Away: SMU, UAB, East Carolina, Temple

Four opponents may send their bands in 2023.
We have to wait until 2026 to possibly have three conference games with opposing bands.

(11-10-2022 01:11 AM)Grungy Wrote:  

(11-09-2022 02:51 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  2023
Home: SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic, East Carolina
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Charlotte

2024
Home: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Navy
Away: North Texas, SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic

2025
Home: UAB, Charlotte, East Carolina, Temple
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, Memphis, Navy

2026
Home: North Texas, UTSA, Tulane, Memphis
Away: SMU, UAB, East Carolina, Temple

Four opponents may send their bands in 2023.
We have to wait until 2026 to possibly have three conference games with opposing bands.

I don't like it. We should be playing six divisional games every season, and two crossovers. They could have kept divisions, while still having the two best teams in the championship.

This is a lousy plan in my opinion. It's only being done to give those eastern schools access to Texas recruits.

We give up playing two rivals every season for FAU, Charlotte, and South Florida? Bad plan. One of the biggest reasons we joined was to specifically reunite with the private schools, now we won't even be playing them every year. Just stupid if you ask me. I guess we'll just shut our mouths and do what they tell us.

(11-10-2022 02:49 PM)Ourland Wrote:  

(11-10-2022 01:11 AM)Grungy Wrote:  

(11-09-2022 02:51 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  2023
Home: SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic, East Carolina
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Charlotte

2024
Home: Tulsa, UTSA, South Florida, Navy
Away: North Texas, SMU, Tulane, Florida Atlantic

2025
Home: UAB, Charlotte, East Carolina, Temple
Away: Tulsa, UTSA, Memphis, Navy

2026
Home: North Texas, UTSA, Tulane, Memphis
Away: SMU, UAB, East Carolina, Temple

Four opponents may send their bands in 2023.
We have to wait until 2026 to possibly have three conference games with opposing bands.

I don't like it. We should be playing six divisional games every season, and two crossovers. They could have kept divisions, while still having the two best teams in the championship.

This is a lousy plan in my opinion. It's only being done to give those eastern schools access to Texas recruits.

We give up playing two rivals every season for FAU, Charlotte, and South Florida? Bad plan. One of the biggest reasons we joined was to specifically reunite with the private schools, now we won't even be playing them every year. Just stupid if you ask me. I guess we'll just shut our mouths and do what they tell us.

I would have preferred all of the schools that might send their band every year, but that's not how it worked out.
We likely did not shut our mouth, but it did not align with enough other mouths to influence the decision.
That said, now we do what they tell us.
That's how it works for just about everyone else, except for the monsters like UT and Notre Dame.

I would like to have seen the Owls play, in order of preference, Tulane, Tulsa, Navy ,SMU, UNT, UAB, and UTSA each year. The 1st three Rice obviously has much in common with - size, academics and even history.

This is a great article on Tulane. And yet, despite all of their hardships (which are greater than Rice's when you factor in all of the hurricane disruptions since Katrina), they are the ones ranked in the top 25 while our athletic administration and coaches continue to treat potentially making one bowl game in eight years (five of which are Bloomgren's) as a miraculous accomplishment. To quote Owl #s, we really should have hired Willie Fritz.

https://www.si.com/college/2022/11/10/tu...mic-school

(11-11-2022 06:40 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  I would like to have seen the Owls play, in order of preference, Tulane, Tulsa, Navy ,SMU, UNT, UAB, and UTSA each year. The 1st three Rice obviously has much in common with - size, academics and even history.

I would add the military academies.

(11-12-2022 12:00 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(11-11-2022 06:40 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  I would like to have seen the Owls play, in order of preference, Tulane, Tulsa, Navy ,SMU, UNT, UAB, and UTSA each year. The 1st three Rice obviously has much in common with - size, academics and even history.

I would add the military academies.

Sure, but I was focused on AAC opponents and did include Navy.

I’m just glad we’re headed to the AAC.

I like the rotation.

I can nitpick a few details but we play most of our nearby rivals 3/4 of the next 4 years.