Contemplating AAC Football Scheduling Post UConn

Andrew Pina/Daily Stampede #AmericanKickoff and Media Days in Newport, RI, have come and gone and unsurprisingly, one of the central topics of discussion surrounding the two-day event was the impending departure of UConn and the conference’s plans moving forward.

AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco was steadfast in his assertion that the American remains a strong football league at 11 teams and therefore has no plans of adding a member to replace UConn for the foreseeable future.

Leaving the league at an odd-numbered 11 teams does open up the question of conference scheduling moving forward and Aresco stated that they were looking into scrapping imbalanced divisions for a system similar to what the…