{"id":340,"date":"2017-06-29T10:18:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:18:55","slug":"2017-sun-belt-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/2017-sun-belt-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Sun Belt Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Sun Belt Predictions:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Team \u2013 Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n

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  1. Appalachian State – 9-3 (7-1) \u00a0\/ \u00a07.77 (5.6) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.63<\/li>\n
  2. Troy – 8-4 (6-2) \u00a0\/ \u00a07.58 (5.53) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.67<\/li>\n
  3. Georgia Southern – 7-5 (6-2) \u00a0\/ \u00a06.59 (4.92) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.37<\/li>\n
  4. Arkansas St – 7-5 (6-2) \u00a0\/ \u00a06.26 (4.74) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.07<\/li>\n
  5. Georgia State – 6-6 (5-3) \u00a0\/ \u00a07.1 (5.06) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.36<\/li>\n
  6. South Alabama – 6-6 (5-3) \u00a0\/ \u00a05.07 (3.79) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.01<\/li>\n
  7. Louisiana Lafayette – 5-7 (4-4) \u00a0\/ \u00a05.57 (4.36) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.00<\/li>\n
  8. Texas State – 4-8 (3-5) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.44 (2.94) \u00a0\/ \u00a02.42<\/li>\n
  9. Louisiana Monroe – 3-9 (3-5) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.74 (3.29) \u00a0\/ \u00a02.72<\/li>\n
  10. Idaho – 2-10 (1-7) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.74 (2.44) \u00a0\/ \u00a02.49<\/li>\n
  11. New Mexico St – 1-11 (1-7) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.56 (3.45) \u00a0\/ \u00a02.87<\/li>\n
  12. Coastal Carolina – 2-10 (1-7) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.29 (1.88) \u00a0\/ \u00a02.24<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Sun Belt is the only conference that does not have a conference championship game. Appalachian State is thus the Sun Belt Champion prediction.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    That makes 6 bowl teams for the\u00a0Sun Belt<\/p>\n

    Cure Bowl – Appalachian St<\/p>\n

    New Orleans Bowl – Troy<\/p>\n

    Camellia Bowl – Georgia Southern<\/p>\n

    Dollar General Bowl – Arkansas St<\/p>\n

    Arizona Bowl – Georgia State<\/p>\n

    Frisco Bowl – South Alabama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[134,138,100,90,136,137,141,140,91,139,142,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}