Southland

Team	Conf.	Overall	Poll	Elo	Last 5
McNeese	8–⁠0	9–⁠1	9	1487		WWWWL
Sam Houston	6–⁠2	10–⁠4	4	1515		WWWWL
Central Arkansas	6–⁠2	6–⁠4		1372		WWWWL
Incarnate Word	4–⁠4	5–⁠5		1239		WLWLW
Northwestern State	4–⁠4	4–⁠6		1316		LWWLW
Stephen F. Austin	4–⁠4	4–⁠6		1276		WWLWL
Lamar	4–⁠5	5–⁠6		1303		LWLWL
Abilene Christian	3–⁠5	3–⁠7		1247		LLLWL
Nicholls	3–⁠5	3–⁠7		1133		LLWLW
SE Louisiana	3–⁠6	4–⁠7		1295		WLLLL
Houston Christian	0–⁠8	1–⁠9		1018		LLLLL

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

Southland teams are 8–⁠16 outside the conference.

• FBS teams0–⁠11
• Big Sky1–⁠3
• Division II4–⁠0
• Others2–⁠0
• OVC0–⁠1
• Patriot Conference1–⁠0
• Southern Conference0–⁠1

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).