Did the American backfill with the right teams once Cinci, UCF, Houston left for the Big12?

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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/MemphisThrowaway3798 on 2025-07-22 02:24:56+00:00.

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As a reminder, they backfilled with Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice, UAB, and UTSA.

Now that we have some hindsight, were those the right teams? Should they instead have targeted other teams like App State, etc?