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2013 Georgia State Football
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TH I S I S GEORG I A STATE FOOTBALL
The Sun Belt Conference will contest the 2013 football
season with eight members – Arkansas State, Georgia
State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, South
Alabama, Texas State, Troy andWestern Kentucky. UALR
and UT Arlington compete as non-football members.
Come the 2014 season, the Sun Belt will have four
new members in the league as Appalachian State and
Georgia Southern were added as all-sports members
and Idaho and New Mexico State have been added as
football playing members.
For the first time in the Sun Belt Conference’s 12 years
of football the league sent four teams to postseason
bowl games in 2012. Louisiana-Lafayette played in the
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl , WKU headed to the
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, Louisiana-Monroe traveled
west to the AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl and
league champion Arkansas State returned to the
GoDaddy.com Bowl.
League-champion Arkansas State defeated No. 25 Kent
State in the GoDaddy.com Bowl 17-13 and Louisiana-
Lafayette won its second consecutive R+L Carriers New
Orleans Bowl with a 43-34 victory over Conference
USA’s East Carolina.
The conference finished with its most non-conference
wins in league history in 2012 and also posted its best
ever average computer ranking in 2012 – finishing
ahead of Conference USA and the Mountain West.
The league had two wins over top-25 ranked
opponents and two bowl victories in 2012.
Over the last five years the Sun Belt Conference ranks
sixth out of the 11 FBS conferences in postseason
bowl game winning percentage. In fact, the Sun Belt
Conference ranks ahead of noted “BCS AQ” leagues –
the ACC, Pac-12 and the Big Ten.
The SBC has won four consecutive R+L Carriers New
Orleans Bowl games and six out of the last seven New
Orleans Bowls against opponents from C-USA, the Mid-
American Conference and the MWC.
“Together We Rise”
is the new mantra for
the conference and
it is the foundation
and essence of the
contemporary logo
that the league will
now be identified with.
ABOUT SUN BELT CONFERENCE FOOTBALL
SUN BELT
BOWL GAMES
