The 2025 American Football Championship Game will kickoff on Friday in primetime, the conference announced Wednesday.
The American’s regular-season champion will host the championship game at its home stadium on Friday, Dec. 6, 2025, and it will be nationally televised by ABC at 8:00pm ET.
The 2025 American Football Championship Game will mark the 11th consecutive season the game is televised by ABC.
Last season, the 24th-ranked Army Black Knights defeated the Tulane Green Wave, 35-14, before an announced crowd of 14,016 at Michie Stadium in West Point, N.Y. It was Army’s first season as a member of the American Athletic Conference.
The Memphis Tigers and Tulane Green Wave lead all current American members with three appearances in the championship game. Former members Cincinnati and UCF also have three appearances each.
Other schools that have appeared in the American Football Championship Game include Houston and Temple with two appearances, and SMU, Navy, and Tulane with one each.
The 2025 season gets underway for the American on Thursday, Aug. 28 with three teams in action. The USF Bulls will host the Boise State Broncos in the first matchup, and that game is slated to kickoff at 5:30pm ET on ESPN. Other matchups that day include the UAB Blazers hosting the Alabama State Hornets and the East Carolina Pirates traveling to face the NC State Wolfpack.
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If this conference wants to be legit then they need to play their championship on a neutral field.
I´ve always hated how G5 conferences except MAC don´t play at neutral field.
With realignment(s), conferences are no longer geographically compact, so it’s hard to pick a neutral field near everyone that can be filled out.
It´s really just the power conferences that no longer make geographical sense. The G5 conferences are still largely regional except for maybe the American, but that´s still a stretch.
I don’t know–the game was at Army and 14,000 were there. That might have been full because of ongoing renovations at Michie, but there is no way the American Conference Championship Game will draw fans to a neutral site game.
The MAC plays in Detroit and they may get 10,000 there. The ACC, title game doesn’t come close to selling out either. Be careful what you wish for.