Army is set to join the American Athletic Conference as a football-only member beginning in 2024, sources told Sports Illustrated‘s Pat Forde. A formal announcement is expected later today.
The news was first reported by Yahoo!’s Ross Dellenger, who noted that the AAC presidents voted Army into the conference in a meeting on Tuesday night.
Army has been competing as an independent since 2004, when the school left Conference USA. The AAC has long sought after Army as the perfect service academy to join the conference. Army’s chief rival, Navy, has been competing in the AAC as a football-only member since 2015, when it joined the conference after competing as an independent as well.