Southern

Team	Conf.	Overall	Poll	Elo	Last 5
East Carolina	4–⁠1	9–⁠2		1623		LWWLW
William & Mary	3–⁠2	7–⁠4		1479		WLWWL
App State	2–⁠2–⁠1	6–⁠4–⁠1		1473		WLWLL
Furman	2–⁠2–⁠1	6–⁠4–⁠1		1462		LLWWW
VMI	2–⁠3	5–⁠5		1418		LWWWW
The Citadel	2–⁠4	6–⁠5		1402		WLLLW
Davidson	0–⁠1	0–⁠2		1278		LL

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

Southern teams are 24–⁠11 outside the conference.

• FBS teams13–⁠10
• Division II7–⁠1
• Others4–⁠0

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

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.

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1978; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1978); 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.

The Southern Conference is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2025 reports $4.5 million in revenue, $657,000 of it from bcs football promotions, and $4.6 million in expenses; it ended the year with $6.6 million in assets. Its best-paid, commissioner Michael Cross, was paid $437,000.

From the organization’s IRS Form 990, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS’s e-file data. Fiscal years end in June; top pay is the best-paid person’s total compensation on the return, listed for e-filed years (2018 on). Grants are the ones the conference lists on Schedule I; bowl payments are the ones bowls list on theirs. See every filing at ProPublica (EIN 54-0674274).