Southland

Team	Conf.	Overall	Poll	Elo	Last 5
Central Arkansas	9–⁠0	10–⁠2	8	1505		WWWWL
Sam Houston	8–⁠1	12–⁠2	3	1547		WWWWL
McNeese	7–⁠2	8–⁠2	18	1440		WLWWW
Nicholls	7–⁠2	8–⁠4	23	1352		WWWLL
SE Louisiana	6–⁠3	6–⁠5		1371		WWLLW
Northwestern State	4–⁠5	4–⁠7		1206		LWWLW
Stephen F. Austin	4–⁠5	4–⁠7		1207		LWWLL
Abilene Christian	2–⁠7	2–⁠9		1165		LLLLL
Incarnate Word	1–⁠7	1–⁠10		1081		LLLLL
Lamar	1–⁠8	1–⁠9		1107		LLLWL
Houston Christian	0–⁠9	1–⁠10		1069		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 8–⁠18 outside the conference.

• FBS teams0–⁠10
• SWAC4–⁠2
• MVFC1–⁠2
• Big Sky0–⁠2
• CAA1–⁠1
• Big South1–⁠0
• MEAC0–⁠1
• OVC1–⁠0

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).