If there was one consistent talking point at Sun Belt Conference Media Days in New Orleans this week, it’s the league’s standing among its peers in Group of 5 football in 2023.

The revenue gap between the power conferences and the Group of Five was nearly $3.2 billion for the 2023-24 fiscal year.

With Group of Five members battling for one automatic College Football Playoff bid, overall conference strength could be a ...

Group of Five Conference Power Rankings. In the first decade of the College Football Playoff era, only one Group of Five team broke into the exclusive four-team playoff: Cincinnati in 2021 in ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A postseason football tournament involving only schools from outside the Power Four conferences could only work if it doesn’t interfere with the 12-team Co… ...

Fellow MAC member Akron (1-3) has the second-worst average margin of defeat (27.5 points per game) in 2024, including losses to power conference members No. 3 Ohio State (3-0), Rutgers (3-0) and ...

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall examine Bill Belichick's Start at North Carolina and build a dream Group of 5 conference road trip for the best games in 2025 on this week’s episode of “Athlon U ...

Army Football Led AAC Into Being Named Best Group of 5 Conference. Army was a major reason why the AAC was named the best Group of 5 conference by the "Play the Fight Song" podcast.

Among first-team all-conference picks returning for the 2025 season, 66.7% of them from the Group of Five (38 of 57) opted to transfer compared to 0% of the Power Four (0 of 24). To read this full ...

The groups are in lockstep this preseason, ranking the same 25 teams, all of which are longstanding power conference members or, in Notre Dame’s case, independent.

The Army football program experienced something this past season for the first time in a while; being part of a conference. From 2005-2023, the Black Knights operated as an Independent school, ...

Having the entire top 25 comprised of power conference programs would be unhealthy if it lingered throughout this and upcoming seasons Unranked at start, top Group of 5s have chances to impress ...