The 2016 Sun Belt Conference football season was the 16th season in which the Sun Belt Conference operated a football league, and was part of the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 The season began on September 1 with Appalachian State facing Tennessee.
 This was the third season for the Sun Belt since realignment that took effect in 2014, which added the tenth and eleventh members — Idaho and New Mexico State.
 Both teams were previously independents before joining the conference.
 The Sun Belt Conference is a "Group of Five" conference under the College Football Playoff format along with the American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference, and the Mountain West Conference.
The 2007 Florida Atlantic Owls baseball team was the intercollegiate baseball team of Florida Atlantic University.
 It competed on the Division I level in the Sun Belt Conference.
 The 2007 team marked the first season of baseball to compete in the Sun Belt, as last year the Owls played in the Atlantic Sun Conference.
 After a disappointing 2006 season, FAU looked to bounce back in 2007, hoping to return to Regionals - possibly farther.
 However, the first season in the Sun Belt did not live up to expectations in Boca Raton, and the Owls finished the regular season at .500 in conference and were bounced from the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in their third game.
 For a second straight season, FAU would not reach the Regionals.
The Georgia State Panthers football team is the college football program for Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
 The Panthers football team was founded in 2010 and currently competes at the NCAA Division I FBS level.
 The team is a member of the Sun Belt Conference.
The Georgia Southern Eagles football program represents Georgia Southern University in football as part of the Sun Belt Conference under head coach Tyson Summers.
 The Eagles have won six FCS (I-AA) national championships and have produced two Walter Payton Award winners.
 The Eagles first continuously fielded a football team in 1924; however, play was suspended for World War II and revived in 1981.
 The Eagles competed as an FCS independent from 1984 until 1992 as the Eagles' main conference at the time, the Trans America Athletic Conference (now known as the Atlantic Sun Conference), did not sponsor football, and as a member of the Southern Conference from 1993 until 2013, winning 10 SoCon championships.
 Georgia Southern joined the Sun Belt Conference upon transitioning to the FBS level in 2014.
 The Eagles won the Sun Belt Conference championship outright in its first year as an FBS member.
 Georgia Southern has Sun Belt rivalries with all of the East Division schools (Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia State, South Alabama, and Troy).
 Georgia Southern's main Sun Belt rivals are Appalachian State and Georgia State.
The American South Conference was an NCAA Division I athletic conference that existed from 1987–88 to 1990–91.
 The charter members were Arkansas State University, Lamar University, Louisiana Tech University, the University of New Orleans, the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) and the University of Texas–Pan American (now merged into the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley).
 The University of Central Florida (UCF) became the only expansion school during the conference's final academic season before merging with the Sun Belt Conference.
 Losing all but three members, the Sun Belt merged with the American South conference.
 The combined conference retained the name of the older Sun Belt Conference.
 Craig Thompson, the American South's first and only commissioner, became commissioner of the merged Sun Belt.
 After serving as Sun Belt commissioner for eight years, he became commissioner of the newly formed Mountain West Conference in 1998.
The 2012 FIU Panthers football team represented Florida International University during the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 They were led by sixth year head coach Mario Cristobal and played their home games at FIU Stadium.
 They were a member of the Sun Belt Conference.
 This was the Panthers final season as members of the Sun Belt as they have accepted an invitation to join Conference USA on July 1, 2013.
 They were a member of the Sun Belt Conference.
 They finished the season 3–9, 2–6 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for eighth place.
 Head coach Mario Cristobal was fired at the end of the season after posting a 27–47 record in six seasons.
The 2009 Sun Belt Conference football season was a NCAA football season that was played from September 3, 2009, to January 6, 2010.
 The Sun Belt Conference consists of 9 football members: Arkansas State, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, Middle Tennessee, North Texas, Troy, and Western Kentucky who becomes a full-time member in 2009 after 2 seasons as an independent and conditional member who played a limited Sun Belt schedule after transitioning from the Football Championship Subdivision.
 Troy won the Sun Belt Championship and played in the GMAC Bowl where they lost in two overtimes to Central Michigan.
 Middle Tennessee was the only other Sun Belt member to be invited to a bowl game, the New Orleans Bowl, where they defeated Southern Mississippi.
100 Miles of Hate is the name given to an American college football rivalry between the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team of Middle Tennessee State University and Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team of Western Kentucky University.
 The universities, which first played each other in 1914, are separated by about 100 miles (161 km) of Interstate 65 and Interstate 24.
 For much of their football histories, they have been conference rivals in leagues such as the Ohio Valley Conference and Sun Belt Conference.
 The rivalry was on hiatus from 1991 to 2007, resuming after Western Kentucky transitioned to Football Bowl Subdivision play and became a football member of the Sun Belt Conference in 2009 (Western Kentucky had been a non-football member of that conference since 1982).
 After Middle Tennessee left the Sun Belt for Conference USA (C-USA) in 2013, the rivalry again went on hiatus.
 However, the rivalry was renewed in 2014 when Western Kentucky joined C-USA.
 The match up usually generates a substantial amount of excitement within the respective fan bases, and tensions are usually high in every meeting.
The Appalachian State Mountaineers are the athletic teams that represent Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, United States.
 The Mountaineers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and were a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) between 1972 and 2014.
 On July 1, 2014, Appalachian State moved to the Sun Belt Conference.
 Appalachian State fields varsity teams in 20 sports, 10 for men and 10 for women.
 The football team competes in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly I-A, as a result of the transition to the Sun Belt.
 The wrestling team remains in the Southern Conference because the Sun Belt does not sponsor the sport.
 In field hockey, another sport not sponsored by the Sun Belt, Appalachian State will join the Mid-American Conference for the upcoming 2017 season after playing two seasons as an independent following the demise of its former league, the Northern Pacific Field Hockey Conference (NorPac).
 Appalachian State has Sun Belt rivalries with all of the East Division schools (Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Troy, and South Alabama).
 Appalachian State's main Sun Belt rivals are Coastal Carolina and Georgia Southern.
Wil Lutz (born July 7, 1994) is an American football placekicker for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL).
 He played college football at Georgia State.

Question: Which Sun Belt Conference college team did New Orleans Saints place kicker, Wil Lutz play for?
Answer: Georgia State Panthers football