The Southland Conference has regularly gotten two teams into the NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) postseason playoffs/tournament. But it's been a decade and a half, since way back in 1998, that the SLC got three teams into the 20-team tour… more »

The Southland Conference will look a little different this season compared to years past. The effects of the conference realignment movement in college football have made its way down to the Southland. Gone is longtime Southland member and footbal… more »

Just a few plays is all that stopped the McNeese State University Cowboys from winning their fourth Southland Conference title under head coach Matt Viator last season. “Going into the offseason, our biggest emphasis was finishing every game,” Viator… more »

The Southland Conference enters 2011 as a league in flux, the latest to feel the ripples of conference re-alignment. But as much as things change in the SLC, things at the top of the standings in football seem to always stay the same. Look at th… more »

The Iota "two step" was fashionable in Southwest Louisiana in the early 1980s. It was the touchdown signature of McNeese State tailback Buford Jordan and he entered into a long striding, high knee kick each time he scored during his four-year career… more »

Texas State, UTSA to depart Southland on June 30, 2012 The Southland Conference's Board of Directors met recently to review the Conference's constitutional articles related to membership withdrawal. The meeting took place after Southland members Texa… more »

FIRST DOWN: For Week 2 of the regular season, the Song of the Day comes from, well, you'll find out. It’s dedicated to the McNeese State Cowboys and all the other Football Championship Subdivision teams out there trying to duplicate the unthinkable magi… more »

It's still too early in the season to dig too deep behind the numbers leading up to Missouri's next game, and considering that a Football Championship Subdivision team is coming to town, no reason to go overboard with the analysis. (Although Kansas and… more »

FRISCO, Texas - The award-winning Southland Conference Television Network will televise 10 football games in 2010, league commissioner Tom Burnett announced Wednesday. Entering its third year of programming, the network has affiliate commitments from… more »

College Sporting News has learned that the Southland Conference tabled a measure at their recently completed meetings that would require all league members to field teams in each of the league's sponsored sports. As it pertains to football, this rule… more »

Toddrick Pendland and Wes Mangan, two all-conference performers on McNeese State's 2009 Southland Conference championship football team, have signed professional football contracts. Pendland, a tailback, has signed with British Columbia of the Canadi… more »

The season is still a long way away, but if spring practice is any indication, the 2010 McNeese State football season will be one dominated by defense and a strong rushing attack. The Cowboys completed their second spring scrimmage on Saturday, with… more »

McNeese State's Cowboys recently received their Southland Conference championship football rings for the 2009 season. It's the third time in the past four years for the Cowboys to win the league title. McNeese has now won the SLC football crown a to… more »

McNeese State's Southland Conference champions begin spring football workouts Thursday with 55 lettermen, including 15 returning starters, on hand. The Cowboys will hold their first workout in shorts, tee-shirts and helmets beginning at… more »

Switching gears from a tentative plan to join the Southland Conference in football, UTSA has charted a new course for its fledgling program. University of Texas at San Antonio athletic director Lynn Hickey said the school, which is slated to begin pl… more »