College Football - Sun Belt Conference
History - Teams - Winners
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 original conference office was located in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1976-77. From 1977 to 1991 the league was located in Tampa, Florida then as of the year 2000 the conference office has been headquartered in downtown New Orleans.
The Sun Belt is one of the lower ranked Division I-A football conferences, having won just 15 (14 percent) of 105 non-conference games against Division I-A opponents and 7 (37 percent) of 19 games against Division I-AA opponents during the 2001-2003 regular seasons. It has one bowl tie-in, the New Orleans Bowl, which presently pits the Sun Belt champion against an agreed-upon school from Conference USA.
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