NEW ORLEANS — While the Sun Belt Conference expects to extend its affiliation with the New Orleans Bowl, it wants to be able to send a team other than the conference champion to that game.

“We’re going to have to have some flexibility to make sure we’re providing the best team for not only this bowl, but other bowls,” Sun Belt commissioner Wright Waters said Tuesday as the conference wrapped up two days of online and telephone interviews with its member football teams, known as “media days.”

Waters said it is increasingly important to have bowl matchups that “make geogr...

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