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Coming to a campus near you? Sun Belt Conference to begin football championship game in 2018.

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LAFAYETTE — The Sun Belt Conference officially announced Wednesday that it unanimously approved a football conference championship game in 2018, making it the last of 10 FBS conferences to have one.

While the impending announcement of a title game was known, thanks to that information being leaked to ESPN on Tuesday night, Sun Belt Conference commissioner Karl Benson cleared up some of the other questions that go along with the announcement: where will the game be played, why is it being played in 2018 instead of earlier and, to a lesser extent, what sort of path will teams have to take to get there?