Success is sometimes just a matter of getting a chance.
And the Sun Belt Conference has finally been getting theirs.
The conference with the best success rate (read: winning percentage) over the last two seasons does not reside in the Power 5, but with the Sun Belt at 8-3. The two-year record also includes….
- 8 wins, tied with Conference USA for the most of any Group of 5 conference
- 6 different teams winning bowls
- The last team to beat self-proclaimed 2017 national champion UCF—Arkansas State by 18 points in the 2016 AutoNation Cure Bowl
It would be easy to draw a line and cherry-pick which years and which stats to consider showing that the Sun Belt Conference is trending upwards.