The Sun Belt Conference is a college athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA's Division I since 1976. The Sun Belt is a far-flung conference, with member institutions distributed primarily across the southern latitudes of the United States in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas.

After the 1990-91 basketball season all members of the Sun Belt except Western Kentucky, South Alabama, Jacksonville, and incoming member Arkansas-Little Rock departed for other conferences. The Sun Belt merged with the American South Conference made up of Arkansas State, Louisiana Tech, Southwestern Louisiana (now University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Texas-Pan American, New Orleans, Lamar, and Central Florida. Football was not sponsored by the Sun Belt Conference until 2001, when the league added New Mexico State, North Texas and Middle Tennessee State as full members and added Louisiana-Monroe and Idaho as football only members. ULM joined the league as a member in all sports on July 1, 2006.

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 currently pits the Sun Belt champion against an agreed-upon school from Conference USA.

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music_maverick (Music0297) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:10:47 -0000
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Andrew Hooper Named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week - Denver Pioneers Official Athletics Site: http://bit.ly/7zopQh
DU_MHoops (denver basketball) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:05:45 -0000
Andrew Hooper Named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week - Denver Pioneers Official Athletics Site: http://bit.ly/7zopQh
Andrew Hooper Named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week - Denver Pioneers Official Athletics Site: http://bit.ly/7zopQh
DU_Pioneers (denver athletics) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:04:29 -0000
Andrew Hooper Named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week - Denver Pioneers Official Athletics Site: http://bit.ly/7zopQh
16 team playoff = all 11 conference champs (ugh, Sun Belt, CUSA) + 5 at large, how do we sort that out fairly (LOL) nothing fair about this
BrianGrummell (Brian Grummell) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:11:32 -0000
16 team playoff = all 11 conference champs (ugh, Sun Belt, CUSA) + 5 at large, how do we sort that out fairly (LOL) nothing fair about this
@CoachMikeMach Troy won its conference. Those other schools should have won theirs. Or maybe they should join the Sun Belt.
andy_staples (Andy Staples) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:28:44 -0000
@CoachMikeMach Troy won its conference. Those other schools should have won theirs. Or maybe they should join the Sun Belt.
@jllanclos @Sun Belt Conference Stop being a hater!
FGilmo (Fred Gilmore) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:15:21 -0000
@jllanclos @Sun Belt Conference Stop being a hater!

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