For the past two seasons, Samford University’s football program has finished 3-13 in the Ohio Valley Conference. This year, it was formally inducted into the Southern Conference, the Football Champion Subdivision’s toughest league. With that welcome… more »

After a preseason of uncertainty, freshman Dustin Taliaferro will lead a trio of quarterbacks for Samford in its season opener against Division II West Georgia tonight at 7 p.m. Samford coach Pat Sullivan said Taliaferro will share time with redshirt… more »

The Southern Conference is a tough football conference. How tough? So tough, national champion and Michigan slayer Appalachian State lost two of seven league games and didn't even earn the conference's automatic bid to the Football Championship Su… more »

For crying out loud, just play each other. Alabama should play UAB. Auburn should play Troy. They both should play Samford and Jacksonville State and, while they're at it, Alabama State and Alabama A&M, too. Not every year. But Alabama and Aub… more »

Samford head football coach Pat Sullivan announced this morning that the Bulldogs have games scheduled in 2010 at Florida State and 2011 at Auburn. The second-year coach also said there is a possibility that Samford could get on Alabama's schedule in 20… more »

Who you know can be as important as what you know in football scheduling, too, according to Samford University Athletics Director Bob Roller. Roller gave most of the credit for Samford's upcoming 2011 game at Auburn to Pat Sullivan, the 1971 AU Heis… more »

The Titans locked up another one of their rising young stars Friday, agreeing to terms with cornerback Cortland Finnegan on a contract extension through 2011. The new deal is worth just under $17 million over the next four seasons, and it includes ro… more »

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Samford’s fifth-year quarterback Dante Williams will undergo surgery and will miss the season due to a knee injury suffered on the second play of Saturday’s scrimmage. “We've lost Dante for the season,” Samford head coach Pat Sulli… more »

The Samford Bulldogs face a multitude of challenges: Rebounding from a tough season, joining a powerhouse league and finding a quarterback after losing the most experienced contender to a knee injury in August. Welcome to the Southern Conference, Sam… more »

Coach Pat Sullivan said his second Samford Bulldogs football squad is already ahead of his first team that finished 4-7. The Bulldogs are bigger, stronger and faster, he said Monday at Samford's annual media day. Bigger, faster and stronger, but n… more »

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Welcome to Samford University, the best little school you never heard of. Until now. Nestled in a green valley in the Homewood section just south of town, this small college with an enrollment of 4,500 is the newest member of the S… more »

GREENVILLE, S.C. — This fall Chattanooga’s football team will bring home nearly a million dollars, a lucrative payday for a season-opening trip to Oklahoma and a visit to Florida State two weekends later. Up in Boone, N.C., Appalachian State will ear… more »

GREENVILLE, S.C. - Southern Conference commissioner John Iamarino couldn't have been happier with the league's showing during the 2007-08 season. But he has a hunch the future of the conference and the Football Championship Subdivision might be even… more »

NASHVILLE, TN — You were a nice story, but moxie and guile only take you so far. You’re fast, and certainly not afraid, but do you really think a seventh-round pick can go a third year without being exposed? Those kinds of thoughts may plague the min… more »

College football columnist gets excited about the possibility of another SoCon team shocking the world in 2008. After this column I promise to back away from my man-crush on the Football Championship Subdivision (at least for a while), but I think th… more »