1987вЂ“2020: Southland Conference (Division I FCS).1984вЂ“1986: Gulf Star Conference ( Division I FCS).1931вЂ“1983: Lone Star Conference ( NAIA).1924вЂ“1930: Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association.Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association Sam Houston has won 14 conference titles, seven shared and seven outright. NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics In their third FCS championship game, they defeated South Dakota State to win their first FCS national championship. In their NAIA championship game, they played Concordia Cobbers for the championship, with the game resulting in a tie, becoming co-champions with Moorhead. Sam Houston has two national championships, with one during their tenure in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the other coming in FCS. NameДЎ930 Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association championsДЎ955 Lone Star Conference co-champions, 1956 LSC champions, 1964 LSC, NAIA National co-champions, 3 bowl wins in 4 appearancesДЎ985 Gulf Star Conference co-champions, 1986 GSC champions, 2001 Southland Conference co-champions, 2004 SLC co-championsДў011 SLC champions, 2011 NCAA Division I Finalist, 2012 SLC co-champions 2012 NCAA Division I FinalistДў014 SLC co-champions, 2014 NCAA Division I Semifinalist, 2015 NCAA Division I Semifinalist, 2016 SLC champions, 2016 NCAA Division I Quarterfinalist, 2017 NCAA Division I Semifinalist, 2020 SLC champions, 2020 NCAA Division I National ChampionsД¬hampionships National championships Keeler was named the 15th head coach in Sam Houston program history. On January 23, 2014, former Delaware head coach K. He was also named the 2012 AFCA Regional Coach of the Year. Willie Fritz coached Sam Houston to back-to-back conference championships and back-to-back national title game appearances in only three years, while being awarded the 2011 AFCA National Coach of the Year award and the 2012 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year award. Paul Pierce coached the Bearkats to its only National Championship, and also won the 1965 Knute Rockne Little All-American Coach of the Year award. Randleman also won conference Coach of the Year honors on four occasions, in the Gulf Star Conference in 19, and in the Southland Conference in 1991, and 2001. Ron Randleman is Sam Houston's and the Southland Conference's all-time winningest coach with 132 wins over a span of 23 years. Sam Houston State also has 3 bowl victories in four games, and one claimed National Championship from NAIA in the 1964 season. The Bearkats have 14 conference championships, and have seen postseason NCAA playoff action in eight seasons, with back-to-back NCAA Division I Championship game appearances in 2011вЂ“2012. As well as their First FCS National Championship from the 2020 college football season against South Dakota State University. The Bearkats competed independently from 1912 through 1923, in the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association (TIAA) from 1924 to 1931, in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) from 1932 to 1981, in NCAA Division II from 1982 to 1985 and in NCAA Division I-AA (now FCS) since the 1986 season. The only times the Bearkats did not field a football team were in 1918 for World War I and from 1943 to 1945 for World War II. Sam Houston has fielded a football team since 1912 and have played continuously since 1946 following World War II. 7.1 Bearkats in the National Football League.The Bearkats left the Southland Conference in July 2021 to join the Western Athletic Conference, which relaunched its football league at the FCS level at that time. The team plays its home games at the 12,593-seat Bowers Stadium in Huntsville, Texas. Sam Houston's first football team was fielded in 1912. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as a member of the Western Athletic Conference through the 2020вЂ“21 season. The Sam Houston Bearkats football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Sam Houston State University located in the U.S. Sam Houston State Bearkats footballДў021 Sam Houston State Bearkats football team For information on all sports, see Sam Houston State Bearkats.

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