How the AAC is Spending Money With an Unknown Future

By now, you know that the AAC is losing its best three programs historically. Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF are moving to the Big 12, amid conference realignment that was triggered by Texas and Oklahoma moving to the SEC. Most people don’t need the history lesson on what happened from there. Some people thought the AAC might poach from the Big 12, but the opposite happened. This forced the AAC to poach from C-USA, while the Sun Belt made a move on C-USA too, in a major shift for the G5 conferences.

More interesting is what happens next, and how the details, structure, and way of doing business in the various conferences are going to change now. For the AAC, generally seen as the top Group of…