NEW ORLEANS — The 2024 Sun Belt football season will officially kick off with Sun Belt Football Media Days on Tuesday, July 23, and Wednesday, July 24. 
 
The event will be held at the New Orleans Marriott Warehouse Arts District in downtown New Orleans, La., and will be broadcast nationwide on ESPN+. 
 
The Sun Belt is coming off a 2023 campaign in which it defeated a conference-record four autonomy five programs, hosted ESPN’s College GameDay for the third time in four seasons and produced a conference-record and FBS-leading 12 Bowl Season participants. 
 
After opening the 2023 season with four-straight weeks with a victory over an autonomy five foe to match the conference record set in 2022, the Sun Belt boasted multiple 10-win teams for the sixth-straight campaign and for the third-straight year had multiple teams reach the mark during the regular season. 
 
The Sun Belt is the lone non-autonomy conference to have had a team finish with two-or-fewer losses in each of the past seven seasons, with James Madison (11-2) continuing the streak in 2023. The Dukes were 1-of-2 non-autonomy teams with two-or-fewer losses a year ago, alongside New Year’s Six representative No. 23 Liberty (13-1). 
 
The Sun Belt also owns a .571 bowl winning percentage during the College Football Playoff era, trailing only the SEC (.584). 
 
Five new head coaches—Dell McGee of Georgia State, Bob Chesney of James Madison, Bryant Vincent of ULM, Major Applewhite of South Alabama and Gerad Parker of Troy—will attend Sun Belt Football Media Days ahead of their first seasons in the conference. 
 
Sun Belt East Division programs—App State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison, Marshall and Old Dominion—will appear on Tuesday, July 23.  

Sun Belt West Division programs—Arkansas State, Louisiana, ULM, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Texas State and Troy—will participate on Wednesday, July 24.  
 
Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Keith Gill will begin the festivities with his State of the Conference address on Tuesday, July 23. 
 
The full list of media days attendees—including two student-athletes per institution—and a more detailed daily schedule will be announced at a later date. 

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