How would the AAC be ranked this year in football and basketball with the future members?

[UConnJim]

If the AAC was in its future configuration this year with UAB, North Texas, Charlotte, Rice, UTSA, and FAU and without UCF, Houston, and Cincinnati, how would the conference be ranked in football and basketball? Not very well.

In football, the average Sagarin rating would place the AAC behind the MAC-West, MWC-Mountain, MWC-West, Sun Belt-East as well as all of the P5 conferences. The average AAC football school would have a Sagarin rating of 62.63 which would rank the school 102nd overall. The highest ranked football school would be SMU at #50.

In basketball, the average Sagarin rating would place the AAC as the 11th best conference between the A10 and the Missouri Valley Conference and the average school would be rated 74.92 which would rank the school 123rd overall. The highest ranked basketball school would be UAB at #47. By the NET ratings, the highest ranked school s #36 UAB with no other school below #50. As for NET quad games, if played at home, there would be no Quad 1 games, 4 Quad 2 games, 4 Quad 3 games, and 6 Quad 4 games.

End of the day, UConn's move out of the AAC was inevitable and thankfully it happened sooner rather than later as staying in the AAC would not have been good for football or basketball.

 

[Goose]

Good info. It would have been a disaster if we were still in the AAC watching Cinci et al pack their bags and head off to the Big12. Some will moan that they want to be in the ACC or Big10 but that ship has sailed, at least for now. We’re in a good spot for the foreseeable future for all sports except football. And our independent football schedule is much better than our AAC schedule ever was.

 

[Kolumbo]

If UCONN were still in the AAC today it would have no choice but to bail. Leaving when it did, on its own terms, in hindsight, was brilliant.

 

[mike012]

We should be making friends with the Pac12. If UConn football can get off life support and be something other then a crutch we can offer them some east coast conference football games. Join as a football only. Plus as a football only travel is very limited. It’s win win for both sides. We will even play usc at MetLife

 

[SubbaBub]

Imagine if we had to go begging to the BE today? The horrible deal we made would be even worse.
When I say horrible, I'm mostly referring to the P5 buyout which will never happen.