This is Part 3 of an exploration of hot college-sports topics for the Memphis Tigers and the American Conference heading into the 2025 football season.

The Tigers’ 34 votes were the ninth-most votes outside of the Top 25.

Part 2 of an exploration of hot college-sports topics for the Memphis Tigers and the American Conference heading into the 2025 football season.

This is Part 1 of an exploration of hot college-sports topics for the Memphis Tigers and the American Conference heading into the 2025 football season.

Sam Brumfield spent two years at Northwest Mississippi Community College to start his career. He played the 2023 season at Middle Tennessee before spending last season at Virginia Tech and will finish with the Tigers.

Cortez Braham Jr. immediately becomes one of the top candidates to lead a retooled Memphis receiving room. He caught 56 passes for 724 yards and four touchdowns for Nevada last season.

Most of the key players from last year’s 11-2 team are gone, and the Tigers started training camp with plenty of mystery, but the one group that has the most returning talent is the running backs. 

Memphis football has a variety of position battles to sort through after losing most of its production from last year’s 11-2 team.

“Just because we don’t have an official preseason poll doesn’t mean we can’t set a baseline of expectations for Memphis football this season. That’s where Las Vegas comes in.”

Memphis Tigers football coach Ryan Silverfield says what he really feels about the American Conference. 

Nothing to see here — that’s what the American Conference commissioner suggested when he was asked about reports revealing a former Memphis football player shared intel with UTSA’s quarterback before the Roadrunners beat the Tigers last season.

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The Tigers traveled to UTSA on Nov. 2, 2024, and left with a 44-36 loss. It was one of two losses Memphis suffered during last year’s 11-2 season.

“We’ve had very transparent conversations for a year about what’s happening,” Pernetti said. “I understand Memphis’ ambition. I think other schools have that ambition.”

ESPN’s Paul Finebaum slams Big 12 Brett Yormark after the league’s decision to reject Memphis’ membership pitch without even taking a vote from its presidents and chancellors.

Memphis has a combined record of 21-5 the last two seasons, but the Tigers are still searching for their first conference title since 2019. 

If there’s anything the news of the last few days has shown us, it’s that the Memphis administration indeed understands just how desperate and possibly dire its situation is as members of the American. 

Whether Brendon Lewis is a bridge to AJ Hill or Arrington Maiden, and whether that gap is closed sooner or later, Ryan Silverfield and the Tigers have a plan at quarterback.

“Memphis once again put together a lucrative offer that has been rejected by Big 12. Is that for embarrassment? Or cause for hope?”

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Big 12 presidents met Monday to discuss the offer, Ross Dellenger’s report says. He also added that “the proposition is not believed to have the necessary support, for now.”

The American Athletic Conference, to which the Memphis Tigers belong, is rebranding and making a preferred name change.

On the day he was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, former Tigers football and baseball player Stephen Gostkowski had something to say about Memphis’ basketball program.

The former University of Memphis football player spent Saturday showing students that being a professional athlete isn’t the only goal worth chasing.

The new mark is more than $1 million higher than the previous year’s record. 

The new Tigers football’s ticket package includes three games, one of which is the biggest home game of the season.

The two-day event will start on July 24 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.