A week from today, 33 of the American Athletic Conference's most prominent players join their coaches and league administrators in the formal kickoff to the 2015 season.
All will convene at the Hyatt Regency in Newport, R.I., for the AAC media days, the culmination to what some refer to as college football's "talking season." As for the talking points, well, they span the conversational gamut. From the benign (How long are Jamie Byrd's dreads?) to the burning (What is the league's long-term football viability?), a plethora of topics will be raised.
The most significant ones?