The American Championship should once again be nothing short of exciting, thanks to two teams with Cotton Bowl aspirations
by Dick Weiss, for TheAmerican.com
MEMPHIS — The American is rising, once again.
In three of the four previous years, the league has been a regular visitor to the New Year’s Six bowls. Houston was 13-1 and ranked eighth in the final 2015 AP poll after defeating Florida State, 38-24, in the Peach Bowl. UCF was ranked sixth by AP after a perfect 13-0 season in 2017 that was punctuated by a 34-27 victory over Auburn in the Peach.