The American Athletic Conference is rebranding itself as, simply, the American Conference as part of a wide-ranging effort it says is designed to fuel growth and elevate its position in a quickly changing college-sports landscape.

The non-autonomy conference that has served as USF’s home the last dozen years evidently is trying to broaden itself by shortening its name. As part of a sprawling re-branding effort, the league formerly known as the American Athletic Conference (or AAC) announced Monday morning that it has shortened its name to the “American Conference” on first reference and “American” thereafter.

American Football has grown into one of the more popular sports in the United States. The NFL monopolizes Sunday afternoons for many football fans, along with Monday and Thursday nights.

Stats Perform tabbed the University of Rhode Island trio for preseason All-American honors in a Tuesday announcement. Buchanan and Peña were named to the first team while Bethea was selected to the second team.

Late last month, the Pac-12 added Texas State of the Sun Belt as the conference’s ninth member for the 2026-27 athletics season.  The Bobcats happily chose a co

Former Clemson player and coach Willie Anderson has died. He was 72. Anderson was the only person in Clemson football history to earn first-time All-ACC honors as a player and serve as a full-time assistant coach on a national championship team for the Tigers.

A former college football All-American was tragically found dead at 51 years old. Harold Wayne Hall, a high school football coach in Kentucky and a Division III All-American lineman at Thomas More, was found dead earlier this month.

Honored to be committed to play in the Navy All-American bowl @AABonNBC @Chris_Sailer @CNendick25 @SCNFBOFFICIAL @robertpomazak @CycloneFB pic.twitter.com/ADrHsbShpa Tenbrock was selected by the Navy All-American Bowl Selection Committee,