Southland

Team	Conf.	Overall	Poll	Elo	Last 5
Stephen F. Austin	6–⁠1	10–⁠3		1403		WWWWL
McNeese	6–⁠1	9–⁠3		1414		WWWWL
Texas State	5–⁠2	7–⁠4		1358		WWWLW
SE Louisiana	4–⁠3	6–⁠5		1257		LWWLL
Sam Houston	3–⁠4	5–⁠6		1290		LWLWL
Central Arkansas	2–⁠5	5–⁠7		1328		LLLLL
Nicholls	2–⁠5	3–⁠8		1228		LLLWW
Northwestern State	0–⁠7	0–⁠11		1117		LLLLL

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.

Southland teams are 17–⁠19 outside the conference.

• FBS teams1–⁠10
• Others7–⁠0
• Great West Conference1–⁠4
• MVFC2–⁠1
• Big Sky1–⁠1
• SWAC1–⁠1
• CAA0–⁠1
• Division II1–⁠0
• FCS Independents1–⁠0
• NEC1–⁠0
• OVC0–⁠1
• Southern Conference1–⁠0

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 1982; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1982); 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 Southland Conference is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2025 reports $5.4 million in revenue, $2.5 million of it from collegiate athletics, and $3.7 million in expenses; it ended the year with $7.8 million in assets. Its best-paid, commissioner Christopher Grant, was paid $357,000.

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 75-2668735).