The American Athletic Conference has announced their early season 2013 football TV schedule, which includes games on the ESPN family of networks and CBS Sports Network.
The schedule kicks off with three non-conference games on Thursday, Aug. 29. UCF hosts Akron (7 p.m., ESPN3), UConn hosts Towson (7:30 p.m., ESPN3), and Rutgers travels to Fresno State (10:30 p.m. ET, ESPNU).
Overall, 22 games were announced for television broadcasts today.
Listed below is the complete schedule of American Athletic Conference games scheduled for TV as of June 21:
| The American – 2013, Week 1 | |||
| Date | Game | Time (ET) | Network |
| Thu., Aug. 29 | Akron at UCF | 7:00 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| Thu., Aug. 29 | Towson at UConn | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| Thu., Aug. 29 | Rugers at Fresno State | 10:30 p.m. | ESPNU |
| Fri., Aug. 30 | Texas Tech at SMU | 8:00 p.m. | ESPN |
| Fri., Aug. 30 | Southern at Houston | 8:30 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| Sat., Aug. 31 | Purdue at Cincinnati | 12:00 p.m. | ESPNU |
| Sat., Aug. 31 | Temple at Notre Dame | 3:30 p.m. | NBC |
| Sat., Aug. 31 | McNeese State at USF | 7:00 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| Sun., Sep. 1 | Ohio at Louisville | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN |
| The American – 2013, Week 2 | |||
| Fri., Sep. 6 | UCF at FIU | 8:00 p.m. | CBS Sports Network |
| Sat., Sep. 7 | Cincinnati at Illinois | 12:00 p.m. | ESPN2 or ESPNU |
| Sat., Sep. 7 | Houston at Temple | 12:00 p.m. | ESPN Regional |
| Sat., Sep. 7 | Eastern Kentucky at Louisville | 12:00 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| Sat., Sep. 7 | Norfolk State at Rutgers | 12:00 p.m. | CBS Sports Network |
| Sat., Sep. 7 | USF at Michigan State | 12:00 p.m. | ESPN2 or ESPNU |
| Sat., Sep. 7 | Duke at Memphis | 4:30 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| Sat., Sep. 7 | Montana State at SMU | 8:00 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| The American – 2013, Week 3 | |||
| Sat., Sep. 14 | Fordham at Temple | 1:00 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| Sat., Sep. 14 | Eastern Michigan at Rutgers | 1:00 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| Sat., Sep. 14 | UCF at Penn State | 6:00 p.m. | Big Ten Network |
| Sat., Sep. 14 | Florida Atlantic at USF | 7:00 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| Sat., Sep. 14 | Northwestern State at Cincinnati | 7:00 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| Sat., Sep. 14 | Maryland at UConn | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN3 |
| Sat., Sep. 14 | Memphis at Middle Tennessee | TBA | CSS |
| The American – 2013, Other Games | |||
| Sat., Sep. 21 | Houston at UTSA | TBA | Fox Sports |
| Thu., Oct. 10 | Rutgers at Louisville | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN |
| Fri., Oct. 11 | Temple at Cincinnati | TBA | ESPN or ESPN2 |
| Fri., Oct. 18 | UCF at Louisville | 8:00 p.m. | ESPN |
| Wed., Oct. 30 | Cincinnati at Memphis | 8:00 p.m. | ESPN2 |
| Thu., Oct. 31 | USF at Houston | 7:00 p.m. | ESPN |
| Sat., Nov. 2 | Temple at Rutgers | 12:00 p.m. | ESPN Regional |
| Fri., Nov. 8 | Louisville at UConn | 8:00 p.m. | ESPN or ESPN2 |
| Thu., Nov. 21 | Rutgers at UCF | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN |
| Fri., Nov. 29 | SMU at Houston | TBA | ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 |
| Fri., Nov. 29 | USF at UCF | TBA | ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 |
| Thu., Dec. 5 | Louisville at Cincinnati | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN |
its hard to keep up with all expansions. Houston @ Temple is a conference game.
Could be as many as 10 American Conference games on ESPN or ABC. Louisville is in half of them. What happens in 2014 when Louisville is gone?
Also, a lot of weeknight games in there. The only American games on a national TV stage on a Saturday include:
Temple AT NOTRE DAME (NBC)
Cincinnati AT ILLINOIS (ESPN2)
USF AT MICHIGAN STATE (ESPN2)
Here’s to hoping the American Conference experiment works. They need one of the Florida or Texas teams to win some games and make some noise in the rankings.
Looks like Boise State and SDSU made the smart choice by staying in MWC. S far just one game is on ESPN3. A lot of games on actually TV with ESPN and CBS Sports Network
What channel is “ESPN Regional”? I thought ESPN Regional was a production division, not a channel or network. Does this mean it will be on ESPN3 or OTA sybdication?
It’s on regular ESPN but only in the region of the home team.(maybe also away team)The temple at Rutgers game will be on in Philadelphia and New jersey markets. It might be regulated to ESPN3 if you don’t live in the markets.
This is the last year of the Old Big East Game of the Week games…. Of course called the AAC GOW now. Those were regional broadcasts mixed between local stations and regional channels like SNY and MASN. Starting in ’14 those will be gone.
who let these guys keep their auto BCS bid for 2013?! Wowzers-mistake
I Predict The American will be a lot better then anyone really expected? Obviously Louisville, Rutgers, Cincinnati, Houston, and Temple will all be good again, USF, UCF, SMU, and UConn will all improve to 5-6 wins, and become Bowl Eligible, while Memphis will take three years to become a Conference Power, and so will Tulsa and Tulane in a few years after they join, and then there’s Navy who is already a tough team, they will be an instant AAC Powerhouse competing for the Conference Title with established Powerhouses Cincinnati, Houston, Temple, and UCF!? …I foresee higher Bowl Percentage wins then the Power 5 Conferences overall within a 5 year period? …”Let it Be Written, Let it Be Done”!? ;)
Do not forget ECU!They will be expanding their stadium to 60000 in the next 2years and are on the Rise again!!
Probably so since the American’s top bowl game after this year is the Beef O Brady Bowl. They will several of those horrendous bowls they will be in. Easy to get a big winning bowl percentage when not playing in any of the bigger bowls.
I agree in that AAC will be a very good conference with some big upsets. Look for UCF to be a dominate player in this conference. Huge growth there and recruiting has been very good. UCF may not last long and could jump to ACC in a few years.
With the recruiting that Willie Taggert did in Tampa, USF will also be good once again. This teams in this conference will shock and surprise a lot of teams and be just as good as many of the other teams in the so-called Big 5 conferences. Remember UH went undefeated in 2011 and UCF went 10-4 in 2012, so I look for immediate impact from these two schools along with USF, Temple, Cincy, (Louisville and Rutgers in their last year) and UCONN.
There will be an American Athletic Conference team in the BCS Championship game and a Heisman Winner from that team as well.