SoCon Football 2023 Season Recap: (Part 1 of 2) Recapping the SoCon's top four teams
Furman quarterback Tyler Huff vs. Montana The 2023 football season would begin in the heat of Northern Alabama and end in the cold, snowy Big Sky Country of Montana, and in-between, we had one heck of a football season inside the Southern Conference. It was another season in which the league took a step forward in terms of showing its overall competitiveness nationally now a full decade removed from the departures of league titans Appalachian State and Georgia Southern. With Furman going on the road and representing the league well in one of the toughest venues in all of Division I college football (FBS or FCS), taking national title participant Montana to overtime in the FCS Quarterfinals before dropping a heartbreaking, 35-28, contest, it went a long way in showing the SoCon--a league with eight national titles in its storied history--was ready to compete again among the newly established bluebloods of the classification. Both the SoCon and Furman have long enjoy...