SoCon Sports Report

The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly wrecked havoc in all forms of entertainment and sport over the past year, with perhaps arguably no form affected more than FCS football. On Thursday, the Southern Conference held its annual football media day via a zoom virtual call, and though many uncertainties remain heading into the 2020-21 season, coaches and student-athletes are just ready for some sense of normalcy to return, and normalcy means having a football season even if it is in the spring and in a limited capacity.  The coaches and players are ready to go, and a eight-game conference schedule was unveiled in the fall. Four teams went ahead and played at least one game in the fall, while the other four opted to wait until the spring. That seven-game slate will get underway on Feb. 20. Below is the selected order of finish for both the media and coaches, as well as the coaches' all-conference teams.  2020-21 Preseason Southern Conference Media Poll Team (1st-place votes) ...

With COVID 19 having wrecked havoc on the 2020 season, I thought this might be a good Saturday to start ranking some of the all-time greats at each position in the SoCon, starting with running back. That would be a natural starting point for the SoCon, since for most of its existence, its identity has been the ground game. With that said, it looks like the fall for most of us who cover college football, and in particular for me, the Southern Conference, will spend the spring dredging up old memories from some of the great players, games and seasons from the past.  Let's take a look back at some of the best running backs to ever grace the SoCon gridiron to get the pot stirring. Here's a look at my top 10 running backs in SoCon history. 1. Adrian Peterson (Georgia Southern, 1998-2001)- -For anyone that ever saw Georgia Southern play during the late 1990s and early 2000s, there was little doubt who the best running back in the Southern Conference and FCS were--it was Adrian Peters...

With COVID-19 rates continuing to rise in most states, and particularly throughout the southeast, at least four conferences have canceled fall sports, which all affect FCS football slated for this fall.  The Patriot League, Ivy League, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) have all canceled fall sports. The CAA are the latest to put a hiatus on the 2020 fall sports season, canceling all sports in the fall, as it was released earlier today.  The Southern Conference plans to go ahead with a full fall slate as of July 17, 2020. However, with so many conference cancellations for the fall so far, it will be interesting to see how it shapes the landscape of SoCon football in the non-conference, as well as perhaps the non-conference in even men's basketball in the future. The only two schools wavering on whether or not to go through with a 2020 campaign in the CAA are James Madison and Elon, but other schools may follow suit on an individual b...