American Conference teams are guaranteed at least eight bowl appearances in 2025 as part of the conference’s postseason lineup, which began in the 2020 season.
The American champion would play in the College Football Playoff if it is ranked among the five highest-ranked conference champions by the CFP selection committee.
As part of the current bowl cycle, The American will annually send teams to the Go Bowling Military Bowl in Annapolis, Maryland, and the Wasabi Fenway Bowl in Boston, facing opponents from the Atlantic Coast Conference in those matchups. In 2025, The American will send a team to the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl and the Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl.
In the 2025 season, The American will additionally fill four spots from a group of eight bowls: the Birmingham Bowl, the StaffDNA Cure Bowl, the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl, the Boca Raton Bowl, the Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl, the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl, the Isleta New Mexico Bowl and the Myrtle Beach Bowl.
Aside the from the eight primary bowl affiliations in place for the 2025, The American has secondary agreements with the AutoZone Liberty Bowl and the Quick Lane Bowl
2025 American Athletic Conference Bowl Lineup
Go Bowling Military Bowl
Dec. 27 | 11 a.m. ET | ESPN
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium | Annapolis, Maryland
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl
Jan. 2 | 1 p.m. ET | ESPN
Amon G. Carter Stadium | Fort Worth, Texas
Wasabi Fenway Bowl
Dec. 27 | 2:15 p.m. | ESPN
Fenway Park | Boston, Massachusetts
Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl
Dec. 24 | 8 p.m. | ESPN
Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex | Honolulu, Hawaii
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Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl
Dec. 23 | 9 p.m. | ESPN
Ford Center at the Star | Frisco, Texas
Boca Raton Bowl
Dec. 23 | 2 p.m. | ESPN
Flagler Credit Union Stadium | Boca Raton, Fla.
StaffDNA Cure Bowl
Dec. 17 | 5 p.m. | ESPN
Camping World Stadium | Orlando, Fla.
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl
Dec. 19 | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
Raymond James Stadium | Tampa, Florida
Myrtle Beach Bowl
Dec. 19 | Noon | ESPN
Brooks Stadium | Conway, South Carolina
SERVPRO First Responder Bowl
Dec. 26 | 8 p.m. | ESPN
Gerald J. Ford Stadium | Dallas, Texas
Isleta New Mexico Bowl
Dec. 27 | 5:45 p.m. | ESPN
Unviersity Stadium | Albuquerque, N.M.
Birmingham Bowl
Dec. 29 | 2 p.m. | ESPN
Protective Stadium| Birmingham, Alabama