Sweeping changes are coming to the Sun Belt.
As soon as next spring, a new commissioner will replace outgoing Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson, whose contractual term with the Sun Belt concludes next summer. As soon 2020, the Sun Belt expects to be affiliated with a new bowl game.
Benson, 66, who was named the Sun Belt’s fifth commissioner in 2012, sat down for an exclusive interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette earlier this week, where the commissioner discussed many wide-ranging alterations coming for the Sun Belt.
Of the topics discussed: Benson’s involvement with the changing of commissioners, plans for the Sun Belt’s inaugural football championship game and the conference’s expectation to officially relocate one of its five guaranteed bowl game locations to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, beginning in 2020, and more.