The Sun Belt has been the worst conference for much of it’s life. However we believe this year (and last year mostly) they will take a big step forward. They have a few legit teams and are pretty top heavy. The bottom is still…well…bottom feeders, but the top makes up for that and they have some pretty marquee match-ups. Win one or two of those and they will make a name for themselves.
For each Conference we will have the Simplified Football predictions (record) with the Projected Win-Shares and rating of each team next to it. We will also have Bowl Projections for each conference.
Sun Belt Predictions:
Team – Record (Conf) / Win-Shares (Conf) / Rating
- Appalachian State – 9-3 (7-1) / 7.77 (5.6) / 3.63
- Troy – 8-4 (6-2) / 7.58 (5.53) / 3.67
- Georgia Southern – 7-5 (6-2) / 6.59 (4.92) / 3.37
- Arkansas St – 7-5 (6-2) / 6.26 (4.74) / 3.07
- Georgia State – 6-6 (5-3) / 7.1 (5.06) / 3.36
- South Alabama – 6-6 (5-3) / 5.07 (3.79) / 3.01
- Louisiana Lafayette – 5-7 (4-4) / 5.57 (4.36) / 3.00
- Texas State – 4-8 (3-5) / 4.44 (2.94) / 2.42
- Louisiana Monroe – 3-9 (3-5) / 3.74 (3.29) / 2.72
- Idaho – 2-10 (1-7) / 3.74 (2.44) / 2.49
- New Mexico St – 1-11 (1-7) / 4.56 (3.45) / 2.87
- Coastal Carolina – 2-10 (1-7) / 3.29 (1.88) / 2.24
Sun Belt is the only conference that does not have a conference championship game. Appalachian State is thus the Sun Belt Champion prediction.
That makes 6 bowl teams for the Sun Belt
Cure Bowl – Appalachian St
New Orleans Bowl – Troy
Camellia Bowl – Georgia Southern
Dollar General Bowl – Arkansas St
Arizona Bowl – Georgia State
Frisco Bowl – South Alabama
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