The Sun Belt Releases the Red Wolves' 2016 Schedule Into the Wild

The Sun Belt released the conference's 2016 football schedule, and as expected it contained three mid-week games to be aired on an ESPN station. As we revealed earlier this year, the Red Wolves continue to be the Sun Belt's biggest draw, which will probably help the flagging viewership of Georgia State and Troy.

Speaking of ESPN, the Sun Belt was pleased to announce that all Sun Belt games would receive some form of ESPN viewership this year, further cementing ESPN3 as the Unofficial Channel of the Sun Belt.

For the fourth consecutive season, all Sun Belt home games will be available on an @espn platform.#FunBelt pic.twitter.com/AgTu4W8NPJ

— #FunBelt (@SunBelt) March 3, 2016

Your Red Wolves Football Schedule, 2016

Sept. 03 - Toledo

Sept. 10 - at Auburn

Sept. 17 - at Utah State

Sept. 24 - Central Arkansas

Oct. 05 - * Georgia Southern (ESPN2, Wednesday)

Oct. 15 - * South Alabama

Oct. 29 - * UL Monroe

Nov. 03 or 04 - * at Georgia State (ESPNU, Thursday or Friday)

Nov. 12 - * New Mexico State

Nov. 17 - * at Troy (ESPNU, Thursday)

Nov. 26 - * at UL Lafayette

Dec. 03 - * at Texas State

* Conference Game

The Gut Reaction

Four out of the last five on the road is tough, but October's going to be an awful lot of fun.

— Kara Richey (@Kara_Richey) March 3, 2016

Arkansas State and Idaho only teams with 3 straight road conference games. https://t.co/FVUMxbVajM

— AStateNation (@AStateNation) March 3, 2016

We got 2/3 tv games against crap teams. Guess ESPN is trying to prop up ratings for other teams since we carry that load too.

— BGregory (@B_gregory) March 3, 2016

In case you’re wondering, no other team plays 3 back to back to back road conference games w/o a bye.

— BGregory (@B_gregory) March 3, 2016

With three games on either @ESPNU or ESPN2, Arkansas State @RedWolvesFBall again leads the Sun Belt. Three others have two.

— AStateNation (@AStateNation) March 3, 2016

Also worth noting- #AState will only have one regular seven-day game week once Sun Belt play begins, & it's the last week of the season.

— Kara Richey (@Kara_Richey) March 3, 2016

Amusing that the first Sun Belt game of the year is Idaho.

— A-State Fan Rules (@AStateFanRules) March 3, 2016

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