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2013 American Athletic Conference football season

Field	Value
title	2013 American Athletic Conference
football season
logo	American Athletic Conference logo.svg
logo_size	150px
color	#002654
color text	#FFFFFF
league	NCAA Division I FBS
(Football Bowl Subdivision)
sport	Football
duration	August 29, 2013
through January 1, 2014
no_of_teams	10
TV	ESPN
draft	2014 NFL Draft
draft_link	2014 NFL Draft
top_pick	Blake Bortles (UCF)
picked_by	Jacksonville Jaguars, 3rd overall
season	Regular season
season_champs	UCF
season_champ_name	Champion
seasonslistnames	Football
prevseason_year	2012 (Big East)
nextseason_year	2014

football season (Football Bowl Subdivision) through January 1, 2014 | conf1_runner-up = | conf2_runner-up = | finals_runner-up = The 2013 American Athletic Conference football season was the 23rd NCAA Division I FBS football season of the American Athletic Conference (The American). The season was the first after the breakup of the former Big East Conference, which lasted in its original form from its creation in 1979 until July 2013. The charter of the former Big East was retained by The American, henceforth the legal status as the 23rd season overall.

UCF as The American's Champion earned the league's last automatic berth for a BCS Bowl Game. Following the 2013 college football season, the BCS (1998–2013) will be replaced by a four team playoff system. Starting in 2014, The American will lose its Automatic Qualifier (AQ) status, and fall into the "Group of Five" with Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference, Mountain West Conference, and the Sun Belt Conference.

In its first year, the conference consisted of 10 football members: Cincinnati, Connecticut, Houston, Louisville, Memphis, Rutgers, SMU, South Florida, Temple, and UCF. Conference members began regular-season play on August 29 when UCF hosted Akron. Conference play started on September 7 when Temple hosted Houston. The regular season concluded on December 7. The following match-ups were not seen in conference play in 2013: Cincinnati–UCF, Connecticut–Houston, Louisville–SMU, Memphis–Rutgers, and South Florida–Temple. Louisville–SMU and Memphis–Rutgers will not be seen in any year in The American play as Louisville and Rutgers are leaving for the ACC and Big Ten, respectively, in 2014.

Previous season

On February 28, 2013, ESPN reported that the conference's seven schools that did not play FBS football, which had announced plans to leave the conference as a bloc no later than July 2015, had reached an agreement to leave in July 2013, and would keep the "Big East" name when they formed a new conference at that time. As a result, the football schools retained the original Big East charter and would operate under a new name in the 2013 football season. The new conference name was officially announced on April 3, 2013.

Cincinnati, Louisville, Rutgers, and Syracuse were co-champions with identical 5–2 records. Louisville received the Big East BCS bid. As the Big East BCS representative, the Cardinals defeated Florida 33–23 in the 2013 Allstate Sugar Bowl. In other bowl games, Cincinnati defeated Duke 48–34 in the Belk Bowl 48–34 with interim coach Steve Stripling. Rutgers lost to Virginia Tech 13–10 in the Russell Athletic Bowl, while Syracuse in their final game as a Big East member defeated former Big East member West Virginia 38–14 in the Pinstripe Bowl. In Pittsburgh's final game as a Big East member, the Panthers lost to Ole Miss 38–17 in the BBVA Compass Bowl.

Preseason

Coaching changes

Three teams have new head coaches for the 2013 season. Tommy Tuberville replaces Butch Jones at Cincinnati, Willie Taggart replaces Skip Holtz at South Florida and Matt Rhule has taken over for Steve Addazio at Temple.

Preseason Poll

The 2013 American Athletic Conference Preseason Poll was announced at the 2013 American Athletic Conference Media Day in Newport, Rhode Island on July 30, 2013.

Louisville (28)
Cincinnati (2)
Rutgers
UCF
South Florida
Houston
UConn
SMU
Temple
Memphis

(first place votes)

Rankings

RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25 of poll

Main article: 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings

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16	Final	Cincinnati	AP	C	Harris	BCS	Connecticut	AP	C	Harris	BCS	Houston	AP	C	Harris	BCS	Louisville	AP	C	Harris	BCS	Memphis	AP	C	Harris	BCS	Rutgers	AP	C	Harris	BCS	SMU	AP	C	Harris	BCS	South Florida	AP	C	Harris	BCS	Temple	AP	C	Harris	BCS	UCF	AP	C	Harris	BCS
RV	RV	NR										RV	RV	RV	RV	NR
RV	RV	NR			RV	NR					RV	RV	25	23	RV	RV
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9	8	7	7	7	7	8	8	18	20	20	19	21	21	19	18	15
9	8	7	6	7	8	8	6	16	17	16	13	15	16	16	16	15
Not released	6	16	16	16	14	16	18	17	16
Not released	20	19	20	20	21	20	19	18
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			RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	21	19	19	15	17	17	15	15	10
RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	25	22	21	19	20	19	17	15	12
Not released	RV	25	22	21	20	19	20	18	15
Not released	23	23	21	17	18	19	16	15

Schedule

Index to colors and formatting
American member won
American member lost
American teams in bold

Week 1

| w/l = w | w/l = l | w/l = l | w/l = l | w/l = w | w/l = w | w/l = l | w/l = l

| w/l = w

Bye Week: Memphis

Week 2

| w/l = w | w/l = l | w/l = l | w/l = | w/l = w | w/l = w | w/l = l | w/l = w

Bye Week: Connecticut

Week 3

| w/l = w | w/l = w | w/l = l | w/l = w | w/l = w | w/l = l | w/l = l | w/l = l

Bye Week: Houston, SMU

Week 4

| w/l = l | w/l = w | w/l = w | w/l = l | w/l = w | w/l = w | w/l = w

Bye Week: Temple, South Florida, UCF

Week 5

| w/l = l | w/l = l | w/l = l | w/l = l | w/l = w | w/l = l

Bye Week: Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Rutgers

Week 6

| w/l = | w/l = | w/l = | w/l =

Bye Week: Connecticut, Houston

Week 7

| w/l = | w/l = | w/l = | w/l =

Bye Week: SMU, UCF

Week 8

| w/l = | w/l = | w/l = | w/l = w | w/l = l

Bye Week: Rutgers, South Florida

Week 9

| w/l = | w/l = | w/l = | w/l =

Bye Week: Cincinnati, Memphis

Week 10

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Bye Week: Connecticut, Louisville, SMU, UCF

Week 11

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Bye Week: Rutgers, South Florida

Week 12

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Week 13

| w/l = | w/l = | w/l = | w/l = | w/l =

Week 14

| w/l = | w/l = | w/l = | w/l =

Bye Week: Cincinnati, Louisville

Week 15

| w/l = | w/l = | w/l = | w/l =

Bye Week: Temple, Houston

Reference:

Bowl Games

| w/l = l | w/l = l | w/l = w | w/l = w | w/l = l Note: The American Athletic Conference did not have enough bowl eligible teams to send a representative to the Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl.

Bowl Eligibility

Bowl Eligible

Louisville (11-1): Became bowl eligible on October 10 after defeating Rutgers.
Houston (8-4): Became bowl eligible on October 26 after defeating Rutgers.
UCF (11-1): Became bowl eligible on October 26 after defeating Connecticut.
Cincinnati (9-3): Became bowl eligible on October 30 after defeating Memphis.
Rutgers (6-6): Became bowl eligible on December 7 after defeating South Florida.

Bowl Ineligible

Connecticut (3-9): Lost the ability to become bowl eligible on October 26 after losing to UCF.
Temple (2-10): Lost the ability to become bowl eligible on October 26 after losing to SMU.
South Florida (2-10): Lost the ability to become bowl eligible on November 16 after losing to Memphis.
Memphis (3-9): Lost the ability to become bowl eligible on November 23 after losing to Louisville.
SMU (5-7): Lost the ability to become bowl eligible on December 7 after losing to UCF.

Records against other conferences

American vs. BCS conferences

Legend

Date	Visitor	Home	Winning team	Opponent
Conference
August 30	Texas Tech	SMU	Texas Tech	Big 12
August 31	Purdue	Cincinnati	Cincinnati	Big Ten
September 7	Cincinnati	Illinois	Illinois	Big Ten
September 7	Duke	Memphis	Duke	ACC
September 7	South Florida	Michigan State	Michigan State	Big Ten
September 14	Louisville	Kentucky	Louisville	SEC
September 14	Maryland	Connecticut	Maryland	ACC
September 14	UCF	Penn State	UCF	Big Ten
September 21	Michigan	Connecticut	Michigan	Big Ten
September 21	Arkansas	Rutgers	Rutgers	SEC
September 21	SMU	Texas A&M	Texas A&M	SEC
September 28	SMU	TCU	TCU	Big 12
September 28	Miami	South Florida	Miami	ACC
September 28	South Carolina	UCF	South Carolina	SEC

American vs. FBS conferences

Conference	Record	Total	7-14
ACC	1-3
Big 12	1-2
Big Ten	2-3
Independents	1-3
Pac-12	0-0
SEC	2-3

Players of the week

Following each week of games, American Athletic Conference officials select the players of the week from the conference's teams.

Week	Offensive	Defensive	Special teams	Player	Position	Team	Player	Position	Team
Aug 31	Teddy Bridgewater	QB	Louisville	Terrance Plummer	LB	UCF	Richie Leone	P	Houston
Sept 7	Deontay Greenberry	WR	Houston	Calvin Pryor	S	Louisville	JaBryce Taylor	WR	SMU
Sept 14	Blake Bortles	QB	UCF	Lorenzo Mauldin	DE	Louisville	Quron Pratt	WR	Rutgers
Sept 21	Gary Nova	QB	Rutgers	Martin Ifedi	DE	Memphis	Janarion Grant	WR	Rutgers
Sept 28	John O'Korn	QB	Houston	William Jackson	CB	Houston	Brandon Wilson	DB	Houston
Oct 5	Garrett Gilbert	QB	SMU	Terrance Plummer	LB	UCF	Marvin Kloss	K	USF
Oct 12	Brendon Kay	QB	Cincinnati	Calvin Pryor	S	Louisville	Jake Elliott	K	Memphis
Oct 19	Storm Johnson	RB	UCF	Derrick Matthews	LB	Houston	Paul Layton	P	Temple
Oct 26	Garrett Gilbert	QB	SMU	Trevon Stewart	S	Houston	Shawn Moffitt	K	UCF
Nov 2	Gary Nova	QB	Rutgers	Zach Edwards	S	Cincinnati	Marvin Kloss	K	USF
Nov 9	Garrett Gilbert	QB	SMU	Brandon Alexander	S	UCF	Charles Gaines	CB	Louisville
Nov 16	J. J. Worton	WR	UCF	Bobby McCain	CB	Memphis	Jake Elliott	K	Memphis
Nov 23	Brandon Kay	QB	Cincinnati	Yawin Smallwood	LB	Connecticut	Richie Leone	P	Houston
Nov 30	P. J. Walker	QB	Temple	Taylor Mack	CB	Connecticut	Rannell Hall	WR	UCF

Position key

Running back	RB	Safety	S	Tight end	TE	Wide receiver	WR

Awards and honors

Conference awards

The following individuals received postseason honors as voted by the American Athletic Conference football coaches

Award	Recipient(s)
Offensive Player of the Year
Defensive Player of the Year	Marcus Smith, Louisville
Special Teams Player of the Year	Tom Hornsey, Memphis
Rookie of the Year	John O' Korn, Houston
Coach of the Year	George O' Leary, UCF

Offense	Defense	Offense	Defense
^ - denotes unanimous selection Additional players added to the All-AAC teams due to ties in the voting

Home game attendance

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Gm 1	Gm 2	Gm 3	Gm 4	Gm 5	Gm 7	Total
Nippert Stadium	35,000	36,007	30,384	32,220	28,847			127,458	31,864
Rentschler Field	40,000	30,689	38,916	42,704	37,861			150,170	37,542
Reliant Stadium, BBVA Compass Stadium	46,846 (Average of Stadiums)	26,205 1	20,103 2	33,115 1				79,243	26,474
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium	55,000	55,332	53,647	55,168	55,215			270,948	54,190
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium	61,000	44,237	36,279	30,274	16,241			127,031	31,758
High Point Solutions Stadium	52,454	49,111	47,604	51,969				148,684	49,561
Gerald J. Ford Stadium	32,000	34,790	10,107	19,436		14,639		78,972	23,111
Raymond James Stadium	65,857	35,470	33,792	47,562	31,077			147,091	36,975
Lincoln Financial Field	68,532	27,328	20,047	21,709	25,533			94,617	23,654
Bright House Networks Stadium	45,323	35,115	47,605	37,924	44,665	41,244	45,952	252,505	42,084

1 @ Reliant Stadium 2 @ BBVA Compass Field

UH vs Rice (34,481) a neutral site game does not count towards attendance

References

"BIG EAST Announces 2013 Football Schedule".
"BIG EAST Announces 2013 Football Schedule - Composite Schedule".
(February 28, 2013). "Sources: Xavier, Butler also joining". ESPN.com.
(April 3, 2013). "New Name in College Sports - Current BIG EAST Enters New Era as 'American Athletic Conference'". Big East Conference.
(July 30, 2013). "Louisville Tabbed As Favorite In Preseason Media Poll". American Athletic Conference.
[http://theamerican.org/calendar.aspx?path=football&season=2013& The American 2013 Football Schedule]
Through week 5.
"American Athletic Conference Announces 2013 Postseason Football Honors". American Athletic Conference.

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