College Football - Sun Belt Conference
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The Sun Belt Conference is a college athletic conference created in 1976.
The conference has members from the following southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas.
It was in 2001 when the Sun Belt conference began sponsoring football basically with the addition of New Mexico State, North Texas and Middle Tennessee State as full members.
The conference headquarters were located in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1976 until 1977. Then, they were moved to Tampa, Florida, where they remained until 1991 when they were moved again to where they are currently located, downtown New Orleans.
In the Sun Belt Conference are some rivalries such as Middle Tennessee vs Troy and Florida Atlantic vs Florida International.
Also, there are some interconference rivalries such as, North Texas vs SMU and Florida International vs University of Miami. Some of these rivalries have a lot of relevance among the participants, as much as that some of them when playing against, play for a trophy.
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