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In general, there are still a couple of teams that want to move on but for the most part, it is a unified league that wants to compete together. “The AAC did a good job finding teams that want to be around.

There’s more acceptance of the new AAC now than a year ago, as the reader comments illustrated: Aresco’s approval rating followed the same trajectory, now back up to 58.6 percent rating his job at a 4 or 5. It dropped to 19.4 percent last year but bounced back up to 37.3 percent this year (again, with fewer voters).

Two years ago, 63 percent of respondents rated their happiness with the league’s membership a 4 or 5. Where would you rank the AAC among the G5 leagues?ĪAC opinion has fluctuated, likely because of all the movement with three schools departing and six more arriving.

Group of 5 conference realignment tv#

How happy are you with the AAC’s TV situation? How would you rate commissioner Mike Aresco’s performance? How happy are you with the AAC’s current membership of schools? The “no difference” is slightly up from last year.Īnswering your conference realignment Q's, from ACC's next steps to CFP AAC (roughly 300 responses) These numbers are very similar to last year’s on the same question.ĭoes conference realignment make you more or less interested in college sports? Has the NIL/transfer portal era helped or hurt the Group of 5? The expanding CFP coming next year seems to have ended the need for a G5-only playoff or merger. The “no” response is up to 75 percent this year from 65 percent last year.

Should the top 12-16 Group of 5 schools form their own football conference? Will the 12-team CFP bring a bigger spotlight to the Group of 5?ĭo you like when your team plays a midweek game?ĭo you wish your school was in a different Group of 5 conference? To this point, nobody can really agree on what to do with it. What should we call the Group of 5 in the 12-team CFP era?ĪAC commissioner Mike Aresco wants to get rid of the G5 framing, and I’m sympathetic to the argument. A year ago, Tulane received five votes out of the more than 1,850 responses to this question, so you never know what can happen. Tulane got the plurality of votes to repeat after winning the AAC and Cotton Bowl last season. With Cincinnati and UCF gone, the NY6 spot feels wide open.

Who will get the Group of 5’s New Year’s Six spot this year? Financially, the gap is growing.īut the Group of 5 still has plenty of interesting players and teams, and we wanted to know what you think about them. But at the same time, conference realignment hangs over the sport, and the transfer portal/NIL era has seen several top G5 players leave for bigger schools. For the first time, this group of teams technically has the same postseason contention opportunity as everyone else. The expanded College Football Playoff next year will be a boon for these conferences and teams. The Group of 5 sits in an unfamiliar position right now. This year’s poll was also released in late July before major realignment, rather than early July right after it, perhaps another factor. The number of AAC respondents fell by around 500 compared to last year. The move of UCF, Cincinnati and Houston to the Big 12 certainly shrunk the pool, as UCF fans especially liked to flood this poll. But notably, the survey only garnered around 800 total responses after getting more than 1,500 in each of the previous three years. This year, that conference pride has hardened even more.