FCS Conference Belt The Southland Belt

The Southland Belt

A companion lineage restricted to Southland: the belt passes to whoever beats the holder, exactly like the real belt, but only games between two Southland members COUNT — and only for the seasons both sides were actually in Southland at the time. Louisiana caught it but left Southland — since this belt only passes among Southland members, it reverted back to Louisiana Tech on November 28, 1981.

22Reigns
45Belt Games
6Programs
Longest Reign
Louisiana Tech — 44 yrs, 292 days
November 28, 1981 – present
Most Defenses, One Reign
McNeese — 11
starting October 13, 1979
Most Reigns, All-Time
Louisiana Tech — 6 separate reigns
6 Southland programs have held it
#TeamReignLength Def.Won itLost it
1 Arkansas State September 15, 1973 – October 27, 1973 42 days 0 Established it (first game on record) lost to Lamar
2 Lamar October 27, 1973 – November 10, 1973 14 days 0 beat Arkansas State lost to Louisiana Tech
3 Louisiana Tech November 10, 1973 – November 29, 1975 2 yrs, 19 days 7 beat Lamar lost to Arkansas State
4 Arkansas State November 29, 1975 – September 25, 1976 301 days 0 beat Louisiana Tech lost to Louisiana Tech
5 Louisiana Tech September 25, 1976 – October 2, 1976 7 days 0 beat Arkansas State lost to Louisiana
6 Louisiana October 2, 1976 – November 20, 1976 49 days 3 beat Louisiana Tech lost to McNeese
7 McNeese November 20, 1976 – October 1, 1977 315 days 0 beat Louisiana lost to Louisiana Tech
8 Louisiana Tech October 1, 1977 – October 7, 1978 1 yr, 6 days 6 beat McNeese lost to Louisiana
9 Louisiana October 7, 1978 – October 14, 1978 7 days 0 beat Louisiana Tech lost to Texas-Arlington
10 Texas-Arlington October 14, 1978 – October 28, 1978 14 days 1 beat Louisiana lost to Arkansas State
11 Arkansas State October 28, 1978 – November 11, 1978 14 days 1 beat Texas-Arlington lost to Louisiana Tech
12 Louisiana Tech November 11, 1978 – September 22, 1979 315 days 0 beat Arkansas State lost to Lamar
13 Lamar September 22, 1979 – October 13, 1979 21 days 0 beat Louisiana Tech lost to McNeese
14 McNeese October 13, 1979 – November 14, 1981 2 yrs, 32 days 11 beat Lamar lost to Texas-Arlington
15 Texas-Arlington November 14, 1981 – November 21, 1981 7 days 1 beat McNeese vacated — left Southland
16 McNeese November 22, 1981 – November 22, 1981 0 days 0 reverted after Texas-Arlington left Southland vacated — left Southland
17 Lamar November 23, 1981 – November 23, 1981 0 days 0 reverted after McNeese left Southland vacated — left Southland
18 Louisiana Tech November 24, 1981 – November 24, 1981 0 days 0 reverted after Lamar left Southland vacated — left Southland
19 Arkansas State November 25, 1981 – November 25, 1981 0 days 0 reverted after Louisiana Tech left Southland vacated — left Southland
20 Texas-Arlington November 26, 1981 – November 26, 1981 0 days 0 reverted after Arkansas State left Southland vacated — left Southland
21 Louisiana November 27, 1981 – November 27, 1981 0 days 0 reverted after Texas-Arlington left Southland vacated — left Southland
22 Louisiana Tech November 28, 1981 – Present 44 yrs, 292 days 0 reverted after Louisiana left Southland — present —

No reigns match “.”

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