According to several different reports, there are six teams from Conference USA who will be applying to the American Athletic Conference this week. Those schools are UTSA, North Texas, Rice, FAU, Charlotte, and UAB. It’s also being reported that the AAC will accept all six of these schools as members in both football and basketball, at least. That will bring the AAC to 14 schools in both sports as well.
Now, let’s take a second and assume that this report is accurate. Multiple reporters have confirmed it, but after what was widely considered a sure thing where the AAC was supposed to poach from the Mountain West, who knows until the paperwork is official?