The winners of each division meet in the Sun Belt Championship Game.
[2] Beginning in 2022, the SBC added the Marshall Thundering Herd, James Madison Dukes, Old Dominion Monarchs, and Southern Miss Golden Eagles football programs to the conference, with the Alabama–Georgia border serving as the new dividing line for the divisions.
Marshall, JMU, and ODU joined the East division at that time.
In 2020, the Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game was cancelled due to COVID-19 cases in the Coastal Carolina program, and as a result, CCU and Louisiana were declared co-champions.
Three of the following games will feature a Sun Belt team every year, as determined by an ESPN Events "flex model".