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The Southland Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the south central United States . It participates in the NCAA 's Division I-AA for football and Division I for all other sports. The Conference's offices are located in the Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas . Founding members included Abilene Christian College (now departed), Arkansas State College (departed 1987), Arlington State College (now University Of Texas At Arlington ), Lamar State College of Technology (now Lamar University ), and Trinity University (Texas) (departed 1971). CURRENT MEMBERS FUTURE MEMBERS
Former members include Arkansas State (1963-1986), Jacksonville State (1997-2002) (football only), Louisiana Tech (1971-1986), Trinity (1963-1971), Troy State (1996-2000), Louisiana-Lafayette (1971-1981), and North Texas (1983-1994). Lamar withdrew from the conference after the 1986 season and returned as a non-football program in 1998. Louisiana-Monroe will leave the Southland Conference in 2006 and become an all-sports member of the Sun Belt Conference , where it already competes in football and women's Swimming . CHAMPIONSHIPS EXTERNAL LINK |