Every summer since 2007 I have created an intricate set of college football predictions for each upcoming season. This year is no exception, as I will be using my blog over the next few weeks to publish my 11th annual college football preview guide. Without further ado, here are my predictions for the American Athletic Conference. Note: the records below reflect each team’s predicted regular season overall record followed by their conference record and excludes bowl games which will be previewed later on in a separate columns on this blog.
| American Athletic | |
| East Division | |
| 1 | USF (13-0, 8-0) |
| 2 | UCF (9-3, 7-1) |
| 3 | Cincinnati (8-4, 6-2) |
| 4 | Temple (5-7, 3-5) |
| 5 | UConn (2-10, 1-7) |
| 6 | ECU (2-10, 1-7) |
| West Division | |
| 1 | Houston (11-2, 7-1) |
| 2 | Tulsa (7-5, 5-3) |
| 3 | Memphis (8-4, 5-3) |
| 4 | SMU (6-6, 3-5) |
| 5 | Navy (5-7, 3-5) |
| 6 | Tulane (2-10, 1-7) |
Ramblings of the Ultimate Sports Sentimentalist 
This may be the best Navy team in the last several years, which is saying a lot. I think that get to the Notre Dame game undefeated. Like most, you are not taking the measure of the Navy football team correctly. That’s why they “surprise” every year.