Gulf States
A former conference: four schools on file. Our membership records under this name start in 1948. 2025 champion: West Florida.
1971 standings
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, 1971
Gulf States teams are 1–0 outside the conference.
The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from lower divisions count together.
Champions
Most titles
| North Alabama | 13 | last 2016 |
| Jacksonville State | 10 | last 1992 |
| Louisiana Tech | 10 | last 1969 |
| Troy | 6 | last 1987 |
| Northwestern State | 6 | last 1972 |
| SE Louisiana | 6 | last 1961 |
| West Florida | 4 | last 2025 |
| West Georgia | 4 | last 2015 |
| Louisiana | 4 | last 1970 |
| Southern Miss | 3 | last 1951 |
By year
| 2025 | West Florida |
| 2022 | West Florida |
| 2021 | West Florida |
| 2019 | West Florida |
| 2016 | North Alabama |
| 2015 | North Alabama, West Georgia (shared) |
| 2014 | North Alabama |
| 2013 | North Alabama |
| 2009 | North Alabama |
| 2006 | North Alabama |
| 2005 | Central Arkansas |
| 2003 | North Alabama |
46 earlier seasons, back to 1948
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.
Schools
Every school and its years (4)
Members
- UL Monroe 1953–1971
- Louisiana 1948–1970
- Louisiana Tech 1948–1970
- Southern Miss 1948–1951
Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1948; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.
Who came and went
SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 69 team-seasons from 1948. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.
Honors while members
NFL first-round picks 2
| Louisiana Tech | 1 |
| UL Monroe | 1 |
Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1948); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.