FBS Conference Belt The American Athletic Belt

The American Athletic Belt

A companion lineage restricted to American Athletic: the belt passes to whoever beats the holder, exactly like the real belt, but only games between two American Athletic members COUNT — and only for the seasons both sides were actually in American Athletic at the time. Caught it by beating North Texas on December 5, 2025.

27Reigns
108Belt Games
13Programs
Longest Reign
Cincinnati — 2 yrs, 5 days
October 24, 2020 – October 29, 2022
Most Defenses, One Reign
Cincinnati — 17
starting October 24, 2020
Most Reigns, All-Time
Tulane — 4 separate reigns
13 American Athletic programs have held it
#TeamReignLength Def.Won itLost it
1 Houston September 7, 2013 – November 9, 2013 63 days 3 Established it (first game on record) lost to UCF
2 UCF November 9, 2013 – November 1, 2014 357 days 7 beat Houston lost to UConn
3 UConn November 1, 2014 – November 22, 2014 21 days 0 beat UCF lost to Cincinnati
4 Cincinnati November 22, 2014 – September 12, 2015 294 days 2 beat UConn lost to Temple
5 Temple September 12, 2015 – November 14, 2015 63 days 4 beat Cincinnati lost to South Florida
6 South Florida November 14, 2015 – October 21, 2016 342 days 5 beat Temple lost to Temple
7 Temple October 21, 2016 – September 21, 2017 335 days 5 beat South Florida lost to South Florida
8 South Florida September 21, 2017 – October 28, 2017 37 days 3 beat Temple lost to Houston
9 Houston October 28, 2017 – November 18, 2017 21 days 1 beat South Florida lost to Tulane
10 Tulane November 18, 2017 – November 25, 2017 7 days 0 beat Houston lost to SMU
11 SMU November 25, 2017 – October 6, 2018 315 days 1 beat Tulane lost to UCF
12 UCF October 6, 2018 – October 4, 2019 363 days 8 beat SMU lost to Cincinnati
13 Cincinnati October 4, 2019 – November 29, 2019 56 days 6 beat UCF lost to Memphis
14 Memphis November 29, 2019 – October 3, 2020 309 days 1 beat Cincinnati lost to SMU
15 SMU October 3, 2020 – October 24, 2020 21 days 1 beat Memphis lost to Cincinnati
16 Cincinnati October 24, 2020 – October 29, 2022 2 yrs, 5 days 17 beat SMU lost to UCF
17 UCF October 29, 2022 – November 19, 2022 21 days 2 beat Cincinnati lost to Navy
18 Navy November 19, 2022 – September 14, 2023 299 days 0 beat UCF lost to Memphis
19 Memphis September 14, 2023 – October 13, 2023 29 days 0 beat Navy lost to Tulane
20 Tulane October 13, 2023 – December 2, 2023 50 days 6 beat Memphis lost to SMU
21 SMU December 2, 2023 – December 2, 2023 0 days 0 beat Tulane vacated — left American Athletic
22 Tulane December 3, 2023 – November 28, 2024 361 days 7 reverted after SMU left American Athletic lost to Memphis
23 Memphis November 28, 2024 – October 18, 2025 324 days 2 beat Tulane lost to UAB
24 UAB October 18, 2025 – November 8, 2025 21 days 0 beat Memphis lost to Rice
25 Rice November 8, 2025 – November 22, 2025 14 days 0 beat UAB lost to North Texas
26 North Texas November 22, 2025 – December 5, 2025 13 days 1 beat Rice lost to Tulane
27 Tulane December 5, 2025 – Present 285 days 0 beat North Texas — present —

No reigns match “.”

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