American Athletic

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP	Elo	Last 5
UCF	8–⁠0	12–⁠1	10	1726		WWWWW
Louisville	7–⁠1	12–⁠1	15	1746		WWWWW
Cincinnati	6–⁠2	9–⁠4		1600		WWWLL
Houston	5–⁠3	8–⁠5		1563		LLLWL
SMU	4–⁠4	5–⁠7		1481		LWWLL
Rutgers	3–⁠5	6–⁠7		1461		LLLWL
UConn	3–⁠5	3–⁠9		1406		LLWWW
South Florida	2–⁠6	2–⁠10		1295		LLLLL
Memphis	1–⁠7	3–⁠9		1339		WWLLL
Temple	1–⁠7	2–⁠10		1392		LLLLW

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.

American Athletic teams are 22–⁠23 outside the conference.

• FCS teams6–⁠3
• Conference USA4–⁠2
• ACC1–⁠4
• Big Ten2–⁠3
• FBS Independents1–⁠4
• Mid-American Conference4–⁠1
• SEC2–⁠3
• Big 121–⁠2
• Mountain West Conference0–⁠1
• Sun Belt Conference1–⁠0

The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from lower divisions count together.

Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 2013; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 2013); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.

The American Athletic Conference is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2025 reports $127.2 million in revenue, $65.2 million of it from television & radio rights, and $155.8 million in expenses; it ended the year with $88.2 million in assets. Its best-paid, commissioner,president(retired6/3/24) Michael L Aresco, was paid $1.3 million.

Grants it lists, 2024-25

From the organization’s IRS Form 990, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS’s e-file data. Fiscal years end in June; top pay is the best-paid person’s total compensation on the return, listed for e-filed years (2018 on). Grants are the ones the conference lists on Schedule I; bowl payments are the ones bowls list on theirs. See every filing at ProPublica (EIN 51-0244593).