{"id":428,"date":"2019-07-18T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2019-07-18T15:26:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:26:16","slug":"2019-aac-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/2019-aac-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 AAC Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

East Division<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Place<\/td>Team<\/td>Win-Share (Conf)<\/td>Record (Conf)<\/td>Rating<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>UCF
Golden Knights<\/td>		9.0 (6.1)<\/td>10-2 (7-1)<\/td>4.19<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Cincinnati
Bearcats<\/td>		6.7 (4.9)<\/td>8-4 (6-2)<\/td>3.85<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Temple Owls<\/td>7.0 (4.3)<\/td>8-4 (5-3)<\/td>3.65<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>USF Bulls<\/td>6.9 (4.5)<\/td>7-5 (5-3)<\/td>3.73<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>ECU Pirates<\/td>5.7 (2.9)<\/td>4-8 (1-7)<\/td>3.20<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>UCONN Huskies<\/td>4.2 (2.3)<\/td>2-10 (1-7)<\/td>2.97<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

West Division<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Place<\/td>Team<\/td>Win-Share (Conf)<\/td>Record (Conf)<\/td>Ratings<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Memphis Tigers<\/td>7.4 (4.5)<\/td>9-3 (5-3)<\/td>3.76<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Houston Cougars<\/td>6.0 (4.1)<\/td>7-5 (5-3)<\/td>3.63<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Navy Midshipmen<\/td>5.5 (3.2)<\/td>5-7 (4-4)<\/td>3.21<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>SMU Mustangs<\/td>6.7 (4.4)<\/td>4-8 (3-5)<\/td>3.61<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Tulsa
Golden Hurricane<\/td>		4.1 (2.7)<\/td>5-7 (3-5)<\/td>3.20<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Tulane
Green Wave<\/td>		6.3 (4.1)<\/td>5-7 (3-5)<\/td>3.53<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Championship Game<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

UCF over Memphis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

**Memphis has tie-breaker over Houston (H2H)**<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For the third straight year the Championship game is UCF v Memphis. For the third straight year UCF beats Memphis in the championship game and goes to a NY6 bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UCF continues their run of dominance through the AAC. However with a tougher schedule this year they likely stumble 1-2 times. If UCF is able to run the table this year with Pitt and Stanford having good seasons, this could be a year when they are able to get into the playoffs. 13-0 Conference Champs with 2 wins over top 25 Power 5 teams is a pretty solid resume. Especially if one of the AAC conference opponents is able to get into the top 25 as well (Several could).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UCF finishes in top 25. No other team gets votes for top 25. 6 bowl teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowl Projections<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Team<\/td>Bowl Projections<\/td><\/tr>
UCF<\/td>Cotton Bowl (NY6)<\/td><\/tr>
Memphis<\/td>Birmingham Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
Cincinnati<\/td>Frisco Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
Temple<\/td>Bahamas Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
Houston<\/td>Tart Cherry Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
USF<\/td>Cure Bowl<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

East Division Place Team Win-Share (Conf) Record (Conf) Rating 1 UCF Golden Knights 9.0 (6.1) 10-2 (7-1) 4.19 2 CincinnatiBearcats 6.7 (4.9) 8-4 (6-2) 3.85 3 Temple Owls 7.0 (4.3) 8-4 (5-3) 3.65 3 USF Bulls 6.9 (4.5) 7-5 (5-3) 3.73 5 ECU Pirates 5.7 (2.9) 4-8 (1-7) 3.20 5 UCONN Huskies 4.2 (2.3) 2-10 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[164,174,87,113,90,105,109,112,111,114,176,110,108,175,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}