Gulf South

Four current members, 15 former. Our membership records under this name start in 1970. 2025 champion: West Florida.

2025 standings

TeamConf.OverallAPEloLast 5
Valdosta State3–⁠06–⁠51307WWWWL
West Florida2–⁠110–⁠21376WWLWL
Delta State1–⁠27–⁠31294WWWLL
West Alabama0–⁠35–⁠4–⁠21208LLLTL

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.

Against other conferences, 2025

Gulf South teams are 22–⁠8–⁠2 outside the conference.

The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from lower divisions count together.

Champions

Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.

Members

  1. Jacksonville State1970–⁠1992
  2. Troy1970–⁠1990
  3. Nicholls1973–⁠1978
  4. North Alabama1973–⁠2017
  5. Northwestern State1973–⁠1974
  6. SE Louisiana1973–⁠1978
  7. UT Martin1973–⁠1989
  8. West Georgia1983–⁠20192021–⁠2023
  9. Central Arkansas1993–⁠2005
  10. Delta State2014 on
  11. Florida Tech2014–⁠2019
  12. Mississippi College2014 on
  13. Shorter2014–⁠2024
  14. Valdosta State2014 on
  15. West Alabama2014 on
  16. West Florida2016–⁠20192021–⁠2025
  17. North Greenville2018–⁠2024
  18. Chowan2023–⁠2024
  19. Erskine2024
Every school and its years (19)

Members now

Former members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1970; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
2026West FloridaLeft for UAC (football only)April 2, 2026
2024West GeorgiaLeft for UAC (football only)September 8, 2023
2018North AlabamaLeft to play as an independent (football only)December 6, 2016
2006Central ArkansasLeft to play as an independent (football only)Source

Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 261 team-seasons from 1970. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.