For those not familiar, Phil Steele ranks the returning experience of each FBS team to help make his predictions. Each team gets a scored based on career OL starts, percent of tackles returning, percent of yards returning, and percent of lettermen returning. Here's the Sun Belt rankings (national ranking in parenthesis).

1. Texas State (2)
2. ULM (3)
3. App State (9)
4. Louisiana (15)
5. Georgia State (22)
6. Troy (35)
7. Georgia Southern (37)
8. Coastal Carolina (57)
9. Arkansas State (80)
10. South Alabama (125)

Here's how each G5 league fared:

Teams in the top 10:
SBC: 3 of 10 (30%)
MAC: 1 of 12 (8%)
MWC: 1 of 12 (8%)
CUSA: 1 of 14 (7%)
AAC: 0 of 12 (0%)

Teams in top 40:
SBC: 7 of 10 (70%)
CUSA: 5 of 14 (36%)
MAC: 4 of 12 (33%)
MWC: 4 of 12 (33%)
AAC: 3 of 12 (25%)

Average Experience Score:
SBC: 69.1
AAC: 61.5
CUSA: 58.7
MAC: 58.2
MWC: 52.4

If I was taking a guess as to which G5 conference is most likely to improve over last year based just on this, I'd say the Sun Belt easily. Of course, our problem is half of our teams having some kind of major coaching changes.

After last year, I’m okay not returning many starters.

Link to the full list?