IRVING, Texas – Some of the nation’s top college football players and head coaches will convene in Arlington, Texas, next week for the 2023 American Athletic Conference Football Media Days, which will be held Monday and Tuesday, July 24-25 at Live! By Loews.
 
Forty student-athletes are scheduled to attend this year’s event, which will be held in Arlington for the first time. Media sessions will begin at 3 p.m. CT on Monday and will continue Tuesday morning with press conferences with the 14 head coaches. Commissioner Mike Aresco will deliver his remarks Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. CT (9:30 a.m. ET). The results of The American’s preseason media poll will be announced at 8:15 a.m. CT.
 
In addition to the Tuesday press conferences, student-athletes and coaches will be available for breakout sessions during specified times on Tuesday and upon request during their scheduled Monday-afternoon block. Monday’s events will be capped by The American Kickoff Dinner, where credentialed media may join coaches, student-athletes, conference and institutional administrators and bowl officials in a casual setting for a Texas-style dinner.
 
Ten of the 40 attending student-athletes attending this year’s Media Days earned all-conference honors last season, including four all-conference selections from Tulane, which won the 2022 American Athletic Conference Championship, defeated USC in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl and finished the season ranked No. 9 nationally. The Green Wave will have quarterback Michael Pratt, center Sincere Haynesworth, defensive lineman Patrick Monroe and defensive back Jarius Monroe in Arlington.
 
UTSA, which won the 2022 Conference USA title, will be represented by quarterback Frank Harris - the 2022 CUSA Most Valuable Player - and veteran safety Rashad Wisdom.
 
Nine of The American’s 14 teams will have their projected starting quarterbacks in attendance. Three of those signal-callers have won New Year’s Six bowl games in their careers (Pratt; South Florida’s Gerry Bohanon with Baylor against Ole Miss in the 2021-22 Sugar Bowl; Rice’s JT Daniels with Georgia against Cincinnati in the 2020-21 Peach Bowl).
 
Live coverage of The American Media Days will air Tuesday, July 25, at 9:15 a.m. ET as ESPN’s Kris Budden and Rene Ingoglia interview student-athletes from all 14 teams, alongside coverage of each head coach’s press conference. ESPN+ will have that telecast, along with a second feed that will feature the full press conferences from the head coaches.

2023 American Athletic Conference Football Media Days
Players Scheduled to Attend
(subject to change)
 

UAB
Head Coach Trent Dilfer
Jackson Bratton	LB
Jacob Zeno	QB
Charlotte
Head Coach Biff Poggi
Jalon Jones	QB
Eyabi Okie	DL
East Carolina
Head Coach Mike Houston
Shane Calhoun	TE
Jeremy Lewis	LB
Florida Atlantic
Head Coach Tom Herman
Armani-Eli Adams	S
Evan Anderson	DL
Larry McCammon III	RB
Chaz Neal	OL
Memphis
Head Coach Ryan Silverfield
Jaylon Allen	DL
Simeon Blair	DB
Seth Henigan	QB
Jacob Likes	OL
Navy
Head Coach Brian Newberry
Will Harbour	LB
Lirion Murtezi	C
North Texas
Head Coach Eric Morris
Jett Duncan	OL
Mazin Richards	DL
Rice
Head Coach Mike Bloomgren
JT Daniels	QB
Luke McCaffrey	WR
Myron Morrison	LB
Josh Pearcy	OLB
South Florida
Head Coach Alex Golesh
Gerry Bohanon	QB
Rashad Cheney Jr.	DL
SMU
Head Coach Rhett Lashlee
Marcus Bryant	OL
Tyler Lavine	RB
Elijah Chatman	DT
DeVere Levelston	DT
Temple
Head Coach Stan Drayton
Jordan Magee	LB
E.J. Warner	QB
UTSA
Head Coach Jeff Traylor
Frank Harris	QB
Rashad Wisdom	S
Tulane
Head Coach Willie Fritz
Sincere Haynesworth	C
Patrick Jenkins	DL
Jarius Monroe	DB
Michael Pratt	QB
Tulsa
Head Coach Kevin Wilson
Braylon Braxton	QB
Kendarin Ray	S