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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South Alabama defeats Western Kentucky to stay unbeaten in Sun Belt Conference ... - Press-Register - al.com (blog) http://bit.ly/8re175
ShakiraFan91 (Shakira Fan) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:48:16 -0000
South Alabama defeats Western Kentucky to stay unbeaten in Sun Belt Conference ... - Press-Register - al.com (blog) http://bit.ly/8re175
South Alabama defeats Western Kentucky to stay unbeaten in Sun Belt Conference women's basketball: South Alabam.. http://bit.ly/61wDAG
GulfLive (GulfLive) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:26:11 -0000
South Alabama defeats Western Kentucky to stay unbeaten in Sun Belt Conference women's basketball: South Alabam.. http://bit.ly/61wDAG
With the Sun Belt's loss, the last unbeaten conference in the bowl season is the FBS Independents (1-0). Way to go, Navy.
theuconnblog (theuconnblog) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:08:33 -0000
With the Sun Belt's loss, the last unbeaten conference in the bowl season is the FBS Independents (1-0). Way to go, Navy.
@ESPN_Others well not even the MAC's best can beat a Sun Belt team. Maybe the conference should just fold...
tonezone23 (Anthony Orlando) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:05:49 -0000
@ESPN_Others well not even the MAC's best can beat a Sun Belt team. Maybe the conference should just fold...
The Sun Belt Conference could make a statement tonight if Troy holds on.
JonathanLintner (Jonathan Lintner) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:31:32 -0000
The Sun Belt Conference could make a statement tonight if Troy holds on.
I'm rooting for the Central Michigan Chippewas in the GMAC Bowl tonight against the Troy Trojans. MAC > Sun Belt Conference.
Sparverine (Garrett Osborne) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:53:04 -0000
I'm rooting for the Central Michigan Chippewas in the GMAC Bowl tonight against the Troy Trojans. MAC > Sun Belt Conference.

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