American Athletic Conference Releases Early Season Football Schedule

The former Big East football schools that comprise the new American Athletic Conference have just released their early season football schedule for 2013.  Most of these games will be televised on the ESPN family of networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, and ABC) but some will air on CBS Sports Network, Fox Sports, and at least one will be on NBC.  The schedule, provided by fbschedules.com, is featured below:

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

Other News:

ACC and Big Ten teams will play each other in the Pinstripe Bowl starting in 2014:
http://espn.go.com/new-york/college-football/story/_/id/9416791/acc-pinstripe-bowl-6-years-sources-say

Former college players are seeking a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA:
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/9406971/former-athletes-seek-class-action-status-lawsuit-vs-ncaa

Former Houston running back Charles Sims will transfer to West Virginia:
http://stats.athlonsports.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=athlonsports&page=cfoot/news/news.aspx?id=4603191

Athlon Sports' preseason top 25 can also be found here:  http://www.athlonsports.com/college-football/top-25