While many teams around the Sun Belt don't start conference play for at least three weeks, the conference season actually starts this week.
Thursday, in fact.
First year head coach Dan McCarney leads the North Texas Mean Green into Miami to face defending co-champion FIU this Thursday night...
Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns will try to get a little payback from an earlier loss to North Texas, when they host the Mean Green in a Sun Belt Conference game.
Johnny Jones return to Baton Rouge as head coach of North Texas was better than any Christmas present he could've asked for. Unfortunately for LSU, it felt like coal in their stockings. North Texas beat LSU Wednesday night 75-55.