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The Georgia Southern Eagles football program represents Georgia Southern University in football as part of the Sun Belt Conference. The current head coach is Clay Helton . The Eagles have won six FCS (I-AA) national championships and have produced two Walter Payton Award winners.
Eagles is the third nickname of Georgia Southern University. From 1924 to 1941, the nickname was the Blue Tide. After World War II, athletic teams were referred to as the Professors, as the school was a teachers college. However, in 1959, when the school was renamed Georgia Southern College, a student vote was held to determine the new mascot.
Georgia Southern's football program began in 1924 while the program at Appalachian began in 1928. The Eagles and Mountaineers first met in 1932, with South Georgia Teachers College beating Appalachian State Teachers College 33–0.
The participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 1989 I-AA Playoffs, which began with a 16-team bracket. [4] The location of the final, the Georgia Southern Eagles' Paulson Stadium, had been predetermined via a three-year agreement the university reached with the NCAA in February 1989.
Georgia Southern had games against Boise State and Ole Miss, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] [3] They added a November game with Army on August 11. [4]On October 7, the game against Appalachian State scheduled for October 14 was postponed to December 12 due to COVID-19 positive tests within the Mountaineers' football program.
Freshman running back Rickey Hunt scored five touchdowns Saturday as Ohio started fast and never looked back.
The Eagles represent Georgia Southern University in the NCAA Division I FBS Sun Belt Conference. Although Georgia Southern competed in intercollegiate football as early as 1924, [2] the school dropped football after the 1940 season and did not reinstate the program until 1982, initially playing at club level until resuming varsity play in 1984 ...
The 1999 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Georgia Southern Eagles and the Youngstown State Penguins.The game was played on December 18, 1999, at Finley Stadium, home field of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.