The 2019 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game was a college football game played on Saturday, December 7, 2019, at

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, to determine the

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champion of the

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. The game, the conference's second championship game, featured the East division champions

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and the West division champions

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Previous season

The 2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game featured East Division champion

against West Division champion

for the first title game for the conference. The Mountaineers defeated the Ragin' Cajuns by a score of 30–19.

Teams

The 2019 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game was contested by the

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, East Division champions, and the

, West Division champions. The teams had met 7 times previously, with the Mountaineers holding a 7–0 edge in the series. The teams' most recent meeting was earlier in the

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; Appalachian State won, 17–7. Louisiana had yet to win in the series, since they first met in

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This was the teams' second meeting in the Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, a rematch from the previous year.

Appalachian State

clinched its spot in the Championship Game after its November 23 win over Texas State. The Mountaineers secured hosting rights on November 29 with a 48–13 win over

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. This is Appalachian State's second consecutive and overall appearance in the Championship Game. App State running back Darrynton Evans was named the championship game

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for the second year in a row.

Louisiana

The

earned their spot after clinching the West Division title on November 23 with a win over Troy. This will be the Ragin' Cajuns' second consecutive and overall appearance in the Championship Game.

Game summary

Statistics

References

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