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Don’t Even Talk to Me if Your Power 5 Conference Doesn’t Have a Mascot
By Kyle Pagan
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The American Athletic Conference has dropped the Athletic part (hold your jokes til the end of class) and become the most badass conference in college sports while introducing the greatest mascot college football conferences have ever seen. You know how I know that? Because nobody has else has one. Tone setters. That 6-2 bowl record last season has the entire conference feeling cocky:
American Conference, baby! And what is more American than a jacked bald eagle named Soar? GO BIRDS!
It’s a multi-platform brand symbol, motherfuckers!
The announcement fired me up. A new era of the American is here. The most successful Group of 6 conference in the entire world. Seven New Years 6 Bowls and CFP berths in 11 years. Built to rise:
Glad to see they grouped the three most important colleges this country has ever seen together. You’re welcome for everything we’ve done for you:
And we’ve already got Heisman candidates transferring to the American for no other reason than they heard the news about the new name:
Beat writers from North Philly to Dallas must be rejoicing that they won’t accidentally fat finger ACC instead of AAC any longer.
I don’t know how the American doesn’t just catapult itself to the most important conference in college immediately. How teams like Georgia, Alabama, and Ohio State aren’t beating down our doors yet is beyond me. It obviously just means more here:
P.S. The shooting sleeve goes hard, Soar:
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com