Countdown to football: Southern Conference race is deep once again
Yes, it’s still July, and we’re more than a month away from the start of the 2017 football season. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get ready for the upcoming season. To do that, we’ll have a series throughout the summer counting down to the season.
The series continues with a power poll for the Southern Conference.
The Citadel
2016 record: 10-2.
Season opener: vs. Newberry, Sept. 2.
Chattanooga
2016 record: 9-4.
Season opener: vs. Jacksonville State in Montgomery, Alabama, Aug. 26.
Samford
2016 record: 7-5.
Season opener: vs. Kennesaw State, Aug. 31.
Mercer
2016 record: 6-5.
Season opener: vs. Jacksonville, Aug. 31.
Wofford
2016 record: 10-4.
Season opener: vs. Furman, Sept. 2.
Furman
2016 record: 3-8
Season opener: at Wofford, Sept. 2.
East Tennessee State
2016 record: 5-6.
Season opener: vs. Limestone, Sept. 2.
Western Carolina
2016 record: 2-9.
Season opener: at Hawaii, Sept. 2.
VMI
2016 record: 3-8.
Season opener: at Air Force, Sept. 2.
Previous stories in this series:
Team-by-team schedules for ACC’s teams.
Weekly schedules for ACC’s teams.
Team-by-team schedules for Georgia’s Division I and Division II teams.
Weekly schedules for Georgia’s Division I and Division II teams.
Middle Georgia team-by-team GHSA schedules.
Middle Georgia weekly GHSA schedule.
This story was originally published July 4, 2017 at 11:42 AM with the headline "Countdown to football: Southern Conference race is deep once again."