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Sun Belt Conference Football
The Sun Belt Conference (SBC) is a conference of 14 universities which participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's NCAA Division I, Division I. As of the 2022 season, all 14 full members play football in the conference. Although the SBC was formed in 1976, it did not sponsor football until 2001. The conference announced that beginning in 2018, the conference (10 teams after the departure of Idaho Vandals football, Idaho and New Mexico State Aggies football, New Mexico State) would split into two divisions for football. In the East: Appalachian State Mountaineers football, Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern Eagles football, Georgia Southern, Georgia State Panthers football, Georgia State, and Troy Trojans football, Troy; In the West: Arkansas State Red Wolves football, Arkansas State, Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football, Louisiana, Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football, Louisiana–Monroe, South Alabama Jaguars f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Belt Conference
The Sun Belt Conference (SBC) is a collegiate athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA's Division I since 1976. Originally a non-football conference, the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001. Its football teams participate in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The 14 member institutions of the Sun Belt are distributed primarily across the southern United States. History The Sun Belt Conference was founded on August 4, 1976, with the University of New Orleans, the University of South Alabama, Georgia State University, Jacksonville University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the University of South Florida. Over the next ten years the conference would add Western Kentucky University, Old Dominion University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Virginia Commonwealth University. New Orleans was forced out of the league in 1980 due to its small on-campus gymnasium that the conference did not deem suitable for conferen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
