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For the first time in the 16-year history of Sun Belt football, a team from the conference was ranked in the top 25 of the AP Poll. In Week 11, the Troy Trojans, with a record of 8-1, received the #25 spot in the AP Poll. The Trojans lost their next game, to Arkansas State, to drop back out of the rankings.
The American had a conference-record 15 players selected in the 2017 NFL draft, which placed it as the fifth most prolific conference in the draft. The American made headlines by having more selections than the Big 12 Conference, a Power 5 Conference. [18] The following list includes all AAC players who were drafted in the 2017 NFL draft.
The NFL announced that the draft was the most attended in history, with more than 250,000 people present. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Starting with this draft, compensatory picks could be traded. [ 7 ] The record for most trades made during an NFL draft was set this year at 37, surpassing the 34 trades made in the 2008 NFL draft . [ 8 ]
2016 Big 12 Conference football season; League: NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision: Sport: Football: Duration: September 2, 2016 through January 2, 2017: Number of teams: 10: TV partner(s) ABC, FOX, ESPN, FS1, FSN, LHN: 2017 NFL Draft; Top draft pick: Patrick Mahomes II (Texas Tech) Picked by: Kansas City Chiefs, 10th overall: Regular ...
The 2017 Mountain West Conference football season, part of that year's NCAA Division I FBS football season, was the 19th season of college football for the Mountain West Conference (MW). Since 2012, 12 teams have competed in MW football—the conference's 11 full members, plus football-only member HawaiĘ»i. The regular season began on August 26 ...
The 2016–17 NCAA football bowl games were a series of college football bowl games which completed the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The games began on December 17, 2016, and aside from the all-star games ended with the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship which was played on January 9, 2017.
2016 Mountain West Conference football season; League: NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision: Sport: Football: Duration: August 2016–January 2017: Number of teams: 12: TV partner(s) CBS Sports Network, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, CBS: 2017 NFL Draft; Top draft pick: OG Nico Siragusa, San Diego State: Picked by: Baltimore Ravens, 122nd ...
Alabama fell to number six in the rankings leading up to conference championship weekend. In the final College Football Playoff rankings of the year, 11–1 Alabama rose to number four after sitting idle, ahead of 12–1 Wisconsin , 11–2 Big Ten Conference champion Ohio State and 12–0 American Athletic Conference champion UCF .