In its first five seasons, the American Athletic Conference has left little doubt as to its place among the top conferences in the nation.
by Dick Weiss
NEWPORT, R.I. – Mike Aresco no longer needs to paint a picture of what the American Athletic Conference could become someday.
After five years of knocking at a closed door at the College Football Playoff, the league commissioner has enough evidence to support his theory that his league can hold its own with members of the power conferences.
“I have said many times over the years that to belong to this group, one does not have to be the Big Ten or SEC; neither are some of the other autonomous five conferences the equivalent of the Big Ten or the SEC," Aresco said during his state-of-the-0conference speech at the league’s annual media day here.