FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SUBDIVISION SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE
The NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), the national association’s highest football classification, salutes its past, celebrates its present and plans for a promising future of achievement. With a focus on high-quality competition, sportsmanship and on-the-field championship experience, the FCS provides alumni, students and fans with first-rate competitive excellence, while giving campuses and local communities tremendous rallying opportunities and an affordable family activity.
Villanova beat Montana, 23-21, to win the 2009 NCAA Division I National Championship. nation, will be home to the championship game for at least the next three seasons and is a natural fit to help grow the championship game.
Texas State shared the 2005 Southland title and advanced to the NCAA semifinals. 2010 SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE FOOTBALL
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HISTORY & RECORDS
The Southland is one of 10 prestigious leagues that earn automatic qualification into the Division I Football Championship, a group that includes the Big Sky, Big South, Colonial, Missouri Valley Football, Mid-Eastern Athletic, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot and Southern conferences.
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Since 1982, the Southland Conference, based in Frisco, has been a proud and prominent member of the FCS, and has an annual expectation of competing for the Division I national championship and placing multiple teams into postseason play. In addition to winning one Division I title, the Southland has also placed teams in six National Championship Games and has collectively won 43 Division I playoff games.
TEAM PREVIEWS
With an expansion to 20 teams this season, the NCAA Division I Football Championship annually gives the FCS a superb on-the-field playoff event, culminating with a week-long celebration in Frisco, Texas this year for the first time. With recent title game sellouts and increased television coverage by ESPN of all rounds, the Division I Football Championship is proving to be one of the NCAA’s premiere postseason events. Frisco, recently named the fastest growing city in the
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The origin of the game’s finest performers – Walter Payton, Jerry Rice, Buck Buchanan, Tony Romo, Kurt Warner, Steve McNair, Rich Gannon and Brian Westbrook – the FCS annually proves itself as fertile ground for talent and the development of future stars and professional Hall of Famers. Coaching legends such as Eddie Robinson, Jim Tressel, Mack Brown, Tubby Raymond and Bobby Bowden all led programs at FCS institutions during their outstanding careers.