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PRESS RELEASE American Athletic Conference unveils 2024 football scheduling model

IRVING, Texas — The American Athletic Conference on Wednesday unveiled the scheduling model for conference games that will be in place for the 2024 season.



UTSA will host four AAC games in 2024, welcoming Florida Atlantic, Memphis, North Texas and Temple to the Alamodome.



The Roadrunners will hit the road for league games versus Army, East Carolina, Rice and Tulsa.



The 2024 season will be The American's second with 14 football-playing institutions as Army West Point joins the conference. The schedule format calls for each team to play eight conference games, with four home games and four road contests for each team. The scheduling model was approved by The American's athletic directors this week.



The American will continue with a single-division format in 2024. The top two teams in the final regular-season standings will qualify for the American Athletic Conference Championship Game.



The full 2024 conference schedule will be announced in February.



UTSA’s 2024 season opener is set for Aug. 31 against Kennesaw State at the Alamodome. The Roadrunners will travel in back-to-back weeks to Texas State (Sept. 7) and Texas (Sept. 14) before they close out the non-conference slate on Sept. 21 against Houston Christian.



Fans can purchase 2024 season tickets online or by calling the UTSA Ticket Office at 210-458-UTSA (8872) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday excluding holidays. Current UTSA football season-ticket holders may renew their tickets today by logging into their UTSA Account Manager.



UTSA (8-4) will wrap up the 2023 campaign on Tuesday, Dec. 19, against Marshall (6-6) in the Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. at Toyota Stadium and the game will be televised nationally on ESPN and ESPN Deportes.



Tickets for the bowl game are available by clicking here. For more information, please visit goUTSA.com/bowlcentral.



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PRESS RELEASE UTSA Athletics Sees Record-Breaking Fall Attendance and Ticket Sales Figures

SAN ANTONIO - In its first season as a member of the American Athletic Conference, UTSA saw fans respond with record-breaking attendance numbers and ticket sales for the fall sports of football, volleyball and soccer.



Football

  • UTSA football averaged 28,876 fans during the 2023 season, which marked the fourth-highest average regular-season attendance in program history and was approximately 2,000 more fans per game than in the 2022 regular season.
  • The Roadrunners posted a total attendance of 173,258 fans, marking the highest regular-season attendance total for the Roadrunners since welcoming 175,282 fans in 2013.
  • Over the course of the 2023 season, UTSA welcomed 15,486 students to home football games, which marked the program’s highest student total attendance figure since the inaugural season of 2011.


Soccer


  • The UTSA soccer team ranked No. 1 in the American Athletic Conference this season in both total and average attendance with more than 7,000 fans attending games this season.
  • The 2023 UTSA soccer attendance broke the 2007 season’s attendance record of 6,634 total fans.
  • The Roadrunners ranked top-45 in the nation in women’s soccer attendance.
  • UTSA’s crowd of 1,397 fans at the Aug. 17 season opener against Central Arkansas marked the highest attendance in Coach Derek Pittman’s tenure.


Volleyball

  • UTSA recorded the highest attendance in program history with more than 11,000 fans passing through the turnstiles during the 2023 campaign.
  • UTSA volleyball season ticket sales more than doubled in 2023 from the previous year.
  • Four matches in 2023 featured an attendance of 1,000 or more fans.


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RECRUITING OFFICIAL VISTS: 12/9 - 12/10

Here's the official visit list for this weekend:

CB - Anthony Pinnace - Independence C.C.

OL - Collin James - New Mexico

DB - Caleb Williams - Pear River C.C.

DB - Elijah Newell - Maumelle HS

DL - Daemian Wimberly - SMU

LB - Udoka Ezeani - Butler C.C.

LB - Ty'Metrius Patterson - Independence C.C.

WR - Jalynn "JJ" Sparkman - Texas Tech

TE - Nate Markiewicz - McKinney North - [COMMIT]

OL - Briley Brown - O'Connor - [COMMIT]

PRESS RELEASE UTSA announces future home-and-home with San Jose State

SAN ANTONIO —UTSA on Tuesday announced that it will play a future home-and-home series of football games with San Jose State.



The Roadrunners and Spartans, members of the Mountain West Conference, will face off on Aug. 31, 2030, at the Alamodome and then meet again on Sept. 3, 2033, in San Jose, California.



The 2030 opener will mark the first time UTSA and San Jose State have met on the gridiron since Oct. 20, 2012, when the Spartans scored a 52-24 victory at the Alamodome when the two teams were members of the Western Athletic Conference.



The meeting also will give UTSA three non-conference games for the 2030 campaign, as the Roadrunners are scheduled to play at Texas State on Sept. 7 and at Texas on Sept. 14.



The 2033 matchup in San Jose is UTSA’s first game announced for that season.



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