Sun Belt is last FBS conference with East/West set-up
Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Keith Gill speaks at the Sun Belt Conference NCAA college football media days in New Orleans Tuesday, July 23, 2024. The Sun Belt is the last FBS conference that will still be split into divisions in 2024, and commissioner Keith Gill said Tuesday that’s likely to continue.
As Gill noted, the Sun Belt added four members in 2023, with Marshall, Old Dominion, James Madison and Southern Miss all coming on-board. The league did so with regional rivalries in mind, rather than large TV markets, as other conferences might have done. Many Sun Belt teams have more than one traditional rival, something that would be difficult to protect in a non-division setup. South Alabama could always play Troy, for example, but might not be able to face Louisiana or Southern Miss each season with the way schedules would rotate without divisions.
“As a coach who has been doing it for three decades, I’m a fan of it. To be honest with you, I would never want to see that App State game not play, the Georgia State game, not play. Those are special. Part of college football is tradition and I hope that tradition doesn’t change.”
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