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Predicting The AAC's Permanent Opponents in Round-Robin

With Mike Aresco announcing The American has no plans of replacing UConn, and that the conference will pursue abolishing divisions and establishing a round-robin schedule with two permanent opponents for each team, I am going to try and guess who these permanent opponents will be for each team.

Cincinnati
- Temple
- USF

ECU
- Temple
- Navy

Houston
- Memphis
- SMU

Memphis
- Houston
- UCF

Navy
- Tulsa
- ECU

SMU
- Houston
- Tulane

Temple
- Cincinnati
- ECU

Tulane
- SMU
- Tulsa

Tulsa
- Tulane
- Navy

UCF
- USF
- Memphis

USF
- UCF
- Cincinnati

A few notes:

  • I tried to keep teams with existing rivalries together and make sure everyone has a geographically relevant opponent. My apologies if I missed a rivalry between schools, but I think I hit the big ones
  • Games I consider to be a lock: USF-UCF, Houston-Memphis, Houston-SMU, Cincinnati-Temple, Tulane-SMU
  • USF and Cincinnati were put together since with UConn on the way out they will be the last remaining teams from the Big East
  • UCF and Memphis were put together since their regular season matchups and conference championships have been exciting to watch and could be the roots needed for a great rivalry going forward

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