
If the American Conference's teams are aware of the constant churn of press about the daunting resource gap between power and non-power conferences in college athletics—well, they haven't read it.
The league has been on absolute fire to start the 2025 season, and on Saturday it claimed one of its highest-profile victims yet. Rallying from an 18-point deficit, Memphis stunned Arkansas 32–31 before a raucous home crowd at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium.