The American Athletic Conference will step in line with Conference USA for a college football schedule this fall. The AAC announced on Wednesday it will keep all eight of its conference games and allow member institutions to play as many nonconference games as possible.
Instead of delaying the season and moving to a conference-only schedule, as four of the five Power 5 conferences have done, Commissioner Mike Aresco elected to allow schools to keep any non-league games scheduled for early September if they were still playable and if opponents met the safety standards put forth by the conference’s medical advisory board.