College Football - Southern Conference
History - Important facts - Teams - Winners
The Southern conference (SoCon) was first established in 1921 and it currently has a total of 12 members belonging to five different states.
It is the fifth oldest major intercollegiate athletic conference in the United States and two other current major conferences were created with teams that initially started with the SoCon: the SEC that was formed in 1933, and the ACC in 1953.
Currently, the SoCon fields a total of 19 sports along which we can mention: football, baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis, cross country, golf, volleyball and indoor and outdoor track.
Some of the schools that have achieved the most football championship titles throughout the conference history are: Furman with a total of 12 titles and Appalachian State and Georgia Southern with a total of 8 each.
Along some of the leading football facilities in the conference are: Johnson Hagood Stadium at The Citadel, Finley Stadium at Chattanooga and Paulson Stadium at Georgia Southern.
Throughout the SoCon history, there’s has been several college football players who have won the Walter Payton Award, given to the best offensive player in Division I FCS. Among them we can mention:
- Adrian Peterson from Georgia Southern (1999)
- Louis Ivory from Furman University (2000)
- Jayson Foster from Georgia Southern (2007)
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