Is American Conference football better than CUSA football? Is it better than all other group of 5 conferences? Should it be considered a power conference?
Is American Conference football better than CUSA football? Is it better than all other group of 5 conferences? Should it be considered a power conference?
They have too many established teams like Houston, Memphis Navy, Tulane, Tulsa, ECU Cincinnati etc (some are down now) and we have too many ex belchers and other newbies. Yeah overall they're better. The difference may not be dramatic but it's real.
Of course! why, we wouldn't have a prayer vs. any American Conference team having a decent year. You know, we wouldn't want to tangle with one in a bowl game...it could get ugly!
Overall, probably a little better. I think both CUSA and AAC are about the same midway down to lower. Perception is the name of the game, though. We need to keep moving up. AAC next, but need to have the eventual goal of a P5. Even with the pecking order of G5's, they are all still G5's.
I think Tech and Southern Miss are the two "name schools" left in CUSA. No knock against North Texas, UAB, MTSU, or some of the others, but directional and city name schools (not to mention the FU's) do not help our image as a conference, no matter what market they are in. Yes, I realize Southern Miss has a direction to it, but they have earned a name and are known. I am even okay with Marshall and Old Dominion. People around the country know these names and it may just be perception and not reality, but that matters.
These are the current CUSA schools that I wouldn't mind continuing in a conference with:
Louisiana Tech
Southern Miss
Marshall
Old Dominion
I will even add one more directional, but known name: WKU
Put these 5 in with Houston, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, and UConn. Add a couple of more and you have a very good name school conference. I can bet the tv ratings for this conference would be better than some other big market city universities like UTSA, North Texas, the FU's, UAB, and even Middle Tennessee.
It isn't as much about winning as it is name. However, add winning into that and you have close to a P5 already!
Yes, Navy was a member the AAC in that game. They had lost to Temple in the AAC Title game. They lsot this game and dropped from #19 to #25 in the rankings. They then lost to Army, but there are no rankings done between conference championship games and end of Bowl season, so they remained at #25, despite losing 2 in a row.
A bottom feeder we can't seem to beat in football with an absolutely huge endowment. They are elitist snobs (believe it of not their alumni base is high percentage based from the northeast) at best.
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