The Navy football team will play its first conference game in school history on Saturday, Sept. 19 at 3:30 PM against East Carolina at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium according to the schedule released by the American Athletic Conference. CBS Sports Network will televise this historic game and remains the home of Navy Football.

Navy will play five of its first seven games at home, including the season opener on Saturday, Sept. 5 against Colgate (12 noon, CBS Sports Network), Air Force on Saturday, Oct. 3 (3:30 PM, CBS Sports Network), the Homecoming game against Tulane on Saturday, Oct. 24 (1:00 PM, CBS Sports Network) and South Florida (USF) on Halloween (12 noon, CBS Sports Network).

The Mids will play their first road conference game on Saturday, Sept. 26 at Connecticut. Navy will play Air Force and Notre Dame in back-to-back weeks for the first time since 2004 when the Mids travel to South Bend on Saturday, Oct. 10 to take on the Irish in a game that will be televised by NBC.

Navy finishes the year with three of its final four on the road. The Mids travel to Memphis on Saturday, Nov. 7 and then, after playing host to SMU on Saturday, Nov. 14 (3:30 PM, CBS Sports Network), finish at Tulsa on Saturday, Nov. 21 and at Houston on Friday, Nov. 27.

The inaugural American Athletic Conference Championship Game is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5 at the home of the division champion with the best record. Either ABC or ESPN will televise the championship game at a time to be announced.

The annual Army-Navy Game presented by USAA will take place the following week on Saturday, Dec. 12 at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field. Kickoff is set for 3:00 PM and the game will be televised by CBS.

Navy returns 11 starters (four on offense, six on defense and one specialist) and 46 lettermen (23 on offense, 21 on defense and two specialist) off last year's team that went 8-5, beat Army for a record 13th-consecutive year and won a bowl game in consecutive years for just the second time in school history.

One of the 11 starters returning for Navy is record-setting quarterback and co-captain Keenan Reynolds, who enters his senior campaign with 64 career rushing touchdowns which is tied with Anthony Thompson (Indiana, 1986-89) and Cedric Benson (Texas, 2001-04) for the fourth most in NCAA history. The NCAA record is 77 set by Montee Ball (Wisconsin, 2009-12).

Navy joins the American Athletic Conference in 2015 after playing as an Independent for the previous 134 seasons.

Navy will be part of the West Division, along with Houston, Memphis, SMU, Tulane and Tulsa. The East Division will be comprised of UCF, Cincinnati, UConn, East Carolina, USF and Temple.

Season tickets for the six regular-season games at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium will go on sale March 1 at navysports.com or by calling 1-800-US4-Navy.

Sept. 26 at Connecticut TBA TBA

Oct. 10 at Notre Dame TBA NBC

Nov. 7 at Memphis TBA TBA

Nov. 21 at Tulsa TBA TBA

Nov. 27 at Houston TBA TBA

Dec. 5 AAC Championship TBA ABC/ESPN