AAC announces two-year scheduling model

The ECU football team runs out of the tunnel onto the field.American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco announced a two-year scheduling model for football that included conference-only games on Monday.

With the University of Connecticut leaving the conference on July 1, 2020, the AAC will be left with 11 teams in its football conference starting next season. Even without that 12th team, however, the AAC was granted a waiver by the NCAA to maintain its conference championship game.

“The waiver was very important, it was a relief to get it,” Aresco said back in October. “You never take anything for granted... we were hopeful but we got it for ‘20 and ‘21. Having the waiver for ‘20 and…