Sun Belt 2023 thread

[BDKJMU]

Sun Belt Announces 2023 Football Schedule
East




https://sunbeltsports.org/news/2023/2/2 ... edule.aspx

[BDKJMU]

Good lord the SBC f*cked JMU. 3 straight road games. 2 are not easy OOC, with sandwiched in between @ Troy, the reigning SBC champs at 12-2 last season. And @ Marshall on a short week without the typical bye week before a Thur game..

[SuperHornet]

I got CCU at 10-2....

[GannonFan]

Good lord the SBC f*cked JMU. 3 straight road games. 2 are not easy OOC, with sandwiched in between @ Troy, the reigning SBC champs at 12-2 last season. And @ Marshall on a short week without the typical bye week before a Thur game..

How is that the conference's fault on the road games? Two of the games are OOC games.

[BDKJMU]

Good lord the SBC f*cked JMU. 3 straight road games. 2 are not easy OOC, with sandwiched in between @ Troy, the reigning SBC champs at 12-2 last season. And @ Marshall on a short week without the typical bye week before a Thur game..

How is that the conference's fault on the road games? Two of the games are OOC games.

Given JMU a home SBC game instead of @ 12-2 (last season) Troy. I'm sure JMU asked for a home SBC game between those 2 away OOC. I didn't even mention 10-3 USA is the 5th game, the 1st home game after the 3 straight away. So JMU has the top 2 teams from all of the SBC last season (both SBC West) as the 1st 2 SBC games.

[GannonFan]

How is that the conference's fault on the road games? Two of the games are OOC games.

Given JMU a home SBC game instead of @ 12-2 (last season) Troy. I'm sure JMU asked for a home SBC game between those 2 away OOC. I didn't even mention 10-3 USA is the 5th game, the 1st home game after the 3 straight away. So JMU has the top 2 teams from all of the SBC last season (both SBC West) as the 1st 2 SBC games.

There's always the other side of the coin - JMU plays back to back home games twice and gets a bye week in between two of those games (so staying on campus three weeks in a row). And after 9/23 they only leave campus three more times all year. Three road trips over the last two months of the season is pretty sweet.

[Pwns]

Whenever you have multiple early-season non-conference games like that there's always the possibility of three road games in a row. If that UConn game was early in the season it may have broken up the string of road games but that's part of scheduling an independent.

Where JMU got the short end of the stick is in their cross-division schedule. I do get the sense the league sets those up to try and maximize the number of bowl-eligible teams. On the other hand Georgia Southern has to play Marshall, App, and JMU all on the road but got a break with Texas State and ULM as cross-division games.

[CAA Flagship]

It's baseball season.

And the Sun Belt is off to a great start. #4 ranked conference as of this morning (Behind SEC, Pac-12, and ACC)

[Ibanez]

Good lord the SBC f*cked JMU. 3 straight road games. 2 are not easy OOC, with sandwiched in between @ Troy, the reigning SBC champs at 12-2 last season. And @ Marshall on a short week without the typical bye week before a Thur game..

Your final game should be a cake walk. I wouldn't be worried.

[BDKJMU]

Good lord the SBC f*cked JMU. 3 straight road games. 2 are not easy OOC, with sandwiched in between @ Troy, the reigning SBC champs at 12-2 last season. And @ Marshall on a short week without the typical bye week before a Thur game..

Your final game should be a cake walk. I wouldn't be worried.

Well the last one was.

I don’t get why JMU isn’t playing ODU last for the ‘Royal Rivalry trophy (Dukes vs Monarchs).
https://www.pilotonline.com/sports/coll ... story.html
Actually don’t get why the SBC doesn’t schedule ANY in state rivalry games last:
-JMU/ODU
-GSU/GST
-ULL/ULM
-Troy/USA
None of those games are Week 13..

[BDKJMU]

I’m not drinking the purple koolaid yet. Tough schedule set up as noted above, esp games 2 through 5. Frankly could start out anywhere between 5-0 and 1-4. I predicted on the JMU board 10-3 or 10-4.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/100 ... ed-in-2023

[BDKJMU]

News from last week. Complete BS. Since JMU completed all necessary steps to be eligible for the waiver (at considerable expense), and still didn’t get the waiver, that proves the whole notion that you could get a waiver (which no team has ever gotten) is a lie.
https://www.pilotonline.com/sports/vp-s ... story.html

[BDKJMU]

Darn. Was probably the best returning DL in the Sun Belt. The rising 7th yr senior (redshirt, med redshirt (missed 2 full seasons to injury), +extra Covid season) last season was 1st team All SBC amd a CFN All American (I think thats for G5 schools). Gave JMU 6 seasons/3 on the field, graduated with 3 something GPA, + JMU another transition season, so can’t blame him.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb ... r-AA1bqxOH