#AMERICAN CONFERENCE FULL#
Temple football was kicked out after the 2004 season, but rejoined in 2012 and intended to become a full member in 2013. Rutgers and West Virginia were offered full all-sports membership in 1995, while Virginia Tech waited until 2000 for the same offer. The conference remained largely unchanged until 1991, when it began to sponsor football, adding Miami as a full member, and Rutgers, Temple, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia as football-only members.
Villanova and Pittsburgh joined shortly thereafter under the leadership of the first Big East commissioner, Dave Gavitt. Seton Hall was then invited as a replacement and the conference started play with seven members. UConn and Boston College would accept the invitation, while Holy Cross soon thereafter declined the invitation, and Rutgers eventually declined and remained in the Atlantic 10 Conference (then known as the Eastern 8 Conference). John's, Georgetown, and Syracuse, which in turn invited Connecticut (UConn), Holy Cross, Rutgers, and Boston College to be members. The Big East Conference was founded in 1979 as a basketball conference and included the colleges of Providence, St. Main article: Big East Conference (1979–2013) The American is headquartered in Irving, Texas, and led by Commissioner Michael Aresco. However, both conferences claim 1979 as their founding date, and the same history up to 2013. While the other successor, which does not sponsor football, purchased the Big East Conference name, The American inherited the old Big East's structure and is that conference's legal successor. It is one of two conferences to emerge from the all-sports Big East in 2013. The league is the product of substantial turmoil in the old Big East during the 2010–14 conference realignment period. With the advent of the College Football Playoff in 2014, The American became a "Group of Five" conference, which shares one automatic spot in the New Year's Six bowl games.
#AMERICAN CONFERENCE SERIES#
The American's legal predecessor, the original Big East Conference, was considered one of the six collegiate power conferences of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) era in college football, and The American inherited that status in the BCS's final season. Member universities represent a range of private and public universities of various enrollment sizes located primarily in urban metropolitan areas in the Northeastern, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. The American Athletic Conference ( AAC), also known as the American, is an American collegiate athletic conference, featuring 14 member universities and five affiliate member universities that compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I, with its football teams competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). States with full members (blue) and affiliate members (red) July 1, 2013 10 years ago ( ) ( de facto)
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