Southern has shed the interim tag and given Terrence Graves the head coaching position permanently. Graves was the interim coach for the Jaguars in the 2023 Bayou Classic, which they won 27-22. Graves has spent significant time with Southern having been a graduate assistant in 1994 and 1995 followed by an assistant coach from 1996 … Read more
After two coaching changes were announced on Monday, there was another change on Tuesday with Eric Dooley as Southern fired Dooley effective immediately. Associate head coach Terrence Graves will take over as head coach for the Jaguars’ final game in the Bayou Classic versus Grambling. Eric Dooley spent four seasons at Prairie View A&M from … Read more
The 2022 college football season will feature a record number of FCS-FBS matchups with 119 games and that provides plenty of games with intrigue. As we did last year, we will provide our list of ten (or so) FCS-FBS games that we are looking forward to watching this season. As a friendly reminder, this is … Read more
It was a busy Monday for FCS teams as three pieces of news hit the wire. The first piece was that Stephen F. Austin’s scheduled game for this upcoming Saturday, October 10 versus Angelo State was moved back a week to Saturday, October 17. The game was postponed due to COVID cases for Angelo State. … Read more
There were two changes announced on Labor Day involving FCS teams. One change was for this week and one addition was announced for the spring season. The first was that The Citadel’s game against the South Florida Bulls has been changed from 1 PM Eastern Time to 7 PM. Saturday’s meeting will be the third … Read more
After a report on Friday by Brett McMurphy that the SWAC would cancel fall sports and subsequent clarification from SWAC Commissioner Charles McClelland, the SWAC presidents voted to postpone fall sports to the spring. The SWAC voted to play a 7 game football schedule spring 2021 with an 8 week training period beginning in January. … Read more
In a day and week of constant bad news, two Division II conferences delivered some more. The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) jointly announced the suspension of fall sports for 2020. Both conferences are willing to consider a move of football to the spring of 2021 but will ultimately … Read more
Former Auburn wide receiver Marquis McClain will transfer to Southern for the 2020 season according to a report by Matt Zenitz of AL.com. McClain spent four seasons at Auburn from 2016 through 2019. After a redshirt in 2016, he played in 14 games as a redshirt freshman in 2017 with 2 catches for 47 yards. … Read more
The Southern Jaguars revised its 2020 football schedule after it was reported they would not play the first two games of the season. Those two games were scheduled to be against Florida A&M and Tennessee State. Southern confirmed they will not play the first two weeks with the season opener now against Alabama A&M on … Read more
Southern’s opening two contests of the season have been canceled according to the New York Times. The game on Saturday, September 5 between Southern and Tennessee State was scheduled to take place in Detroit, Michigan. The Saturday, September 12 game between Florida A&M and Southern has also been canceled. The game was scheduled to be … Read more