Cougars, Midshipmen and Tigers will battle over West

Memphis won the AAC West last season with a 7-1 conference and defeated second place Houston 42-38 at TDECU Stadium. | Thomas Dwyer / The CougarThe fight for AAC West supremacy will is shaping up to be a grueling, three-team race with the Memphis Tigers, Navy Midshipmen and Houston Cougars in contention.

There is no true way to predict exactly how a team’s season will shape up but there are exercises that can give you a good idea for how a team may do.

One of those is to look at a team’s strength of schedule and determine where a team might lose. Every team in the AAC West plays at least one team currently ranked in the Top 25, except for Houston.

The toughest in-conference tests for Houston…