[1] The game previously pitted the champion of the Eastern Division (UCF, Cincinnati, Connecticut, East Carolina, South Florida, and Temple) against the champion of the Western Division (Houston, Memphis, Navy, SMU, Tulane, and Tulsa).

In December 2012, the Big East's seven remaining non-FBS schools, all Catholic institutions – DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall, and Villanova – announced that they voted unanimously to leave the conference.

Their departure was succeeded on the same day by the entrance of East Carolina, Tulane, and Tulsa for all sports.

Naval Academy joined the conference for football, bringing the membership total in that sport to twelve teams.

[2] On July 1, 2020, UConn officially left The American, with its football team becoming an FBS independent once the school joined the Big East.

If regular season ends and the Championship Game is scheduled for the next Saturday, the following tiebreakers are used: The following procedures are used when there's a multiple team tie.

If regular season ends and the Championship Game is scheduled for the next Saturday, the following tiebreakers are used to break multi-team ties: The team with the highest winning percentage in Conference play will host.