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The team is a member of the Sun Belt Conference. In November , a study commissioned by Georgia State was completed and submitted back to the school. It found Georgia State to be in a good position to begin a competitive football team, and based its remarks on the location and resources of the university. On November 1, , the university began discussing the possibility of adding football.

On April 17, , Georgia State launched its football program. On November 20, , ground was broken for a downtown practice facility at Martin Luther King Drive. The facility would eventually be expanded to include a yard artificial turf field and a yard natural turf field. The existing buildings were converted into facilities and offices for the football team.

Levick left Maryland, where she had served as the school’s executive senior athletic director. The Panthers wouldn’t play football until the season, and so the season was spent practicing at an NFL facility in downtown Atlanta.

Georgia State’s second recruiting class was signed on February 3, The team would go on to hold spring practice beginning on March 23, and would begin working out at the new practice facility by March On September 2, Georgia State played its first football game and home opener against the Shorter Hawks , winning the game 41—7.

The first touchdown was recorded by Parris Lee. A crowd of 30, was present at the Georgia Dome including then Georgia governor Sonny Perdue , former mayor Andrew Young , amongst other dignitaries. The single touchdown was earned during a kick return by Albert Wilson.

During its second year of play, the Panthers would record a 3—8 record. The season marked the last with Bill Curry as head coach as he had stated that he would retire after the end of the season.

Throughout the season, the Panthers were plagued with inconsistencies on both the offense and defense, made worse by injuries on either side and inexperienced quarterbacks. The Panthers were not eligible for a post season berth through neither the conference’s automatic bid nor an at large bid due to their reclassifying status as the team prepared to move up to FBS football in the Sun Belt Conference.

This reclassifying status did allow for the Panthers to use more scholarships than the allowed 63 scholarships at the FCS level. Georgia State officially announced that it would join the Sun Belt Conference on April 9, , during a press conference at the Georgia Dome. The school began full membership on July 1, Georgia State was a founding member of the Sun Belt Conference in The Panthers were not eligible for postseason play until the season.

After Coach Bill Curry announced his retirement in August, [20] the administration hired Parker Executive Search to help find potential candidates.

With Trent Miles’ arrival as new head coach came the Panthers first complete change in uniform since the programs inception. The original uniform consisted solely of 2 different outfits; a blue home jersey with Panthers written across the chest above the player number and two white stripes on each arm; and a white away jersey with similar stylings, but with Georgia State written across the chest.

Only a single helmet existed, blue and with the secondary GSU emblem on it. Both uniforms used the same white pants with panther heads on them.

Two different jerseys were shown, a blue home jersey with white numbers and lettering and a white away jersey with blue numbers and lettering.

Both uniforms included numbering on the sleeves and player names on the back. The uniforms also included three sets of pants, one pair copying the original whites, a blue pair, and an anthracite pair. With this move came a significant increase in opposition quality, as well as an increase in the number of scholarships available for the team. During the transition year from FCS to FBS, and the first year in which Miles coached, the Panthers would achieve zero wins, accruing a final record of 0—12, 0—7 in conference.

While the following year would mark only a single win against the lone FCS opponent, the season would end with a 6—7 record, 5—3 in the Sun Belt and a loss at the Panthers’ first bowl game, the Cure Bowl. The season would see only three wins, and after the 10th game, Miles was relieved from duty as head coach, leaving Lappano as interim head coach for the final two games. On December 8, , South Carolina offensive line coach Shawn Elliott accepted the head coaching position at Georgia State , causing the Panthers to start the season with a new head coach and in the newly acquired Georgia State Stadium.

The Panthers finished 7—5 in Georgia State’s first head coach Bill Curry was the initial architect for the program. His tenure ended with a record of 10— Initially hired by the former athletics director Mary McElroy, after her termination by previous Georgia State president Carl Patton, Curry was named interim athletic director while the school searched for a new AD.

He also was present for the beginning of the transition from the football championship subdivision FCS to the football bowl subdivision FBS as the school changed athletics conferences from the Colonial Athletic Association to the Sun Belt Conference. After a 6—5 record in its first season, the Panthers followed with a 3—8 record in its second season, and finally closing with a 1—10 record in his final year. However, the university honored its founding head coach by naming the locker rooms at the new football practice facility after Curry.

However, during his third season as head coach, after accruing a record of 2—6, the Panthers would win their final four games, including a 34—7 defeat of in-state rivals Georgia Southern to a record of 6—6 and their first bowl game. On November 12, after losing to conference foe ULM , it was reported that Trent Miles was fired, leaving with a career record of 9—38 at Georgia State.

On December 9, , Georgia State announced that it had hired former South Carolina co-offensive coordinator —15 , interim head coach , and offensive line coach Shawn Elliott to lead the Panthers as head coach.

Georgia Southern and Georgia State have only competed against each other in football since They played annually in basketball from the —72 to —81 seasons, —96 and —97, and —10 to —14 out-of-conference and as conference mates from the —86 to —92 seasons in the Trans America Athletic Conference which is now the ASUN Conference , and since the —15 season in the Sun Belt Conference. Since both schools can be abbreviated GSU, a point of conflict between the two schools is that both fan-bases claim that their university is, in fact, the real GSU.

Georgia Southern, on the other hand, has a more extensive history of football than Georgia State, restarting its program in and winning six national championships at the FCS level.

The football rivalry began after the hire of former Appalachian State a major rival of Georgia Southern athletic director Charlie Cobb to the same position at Ga State. During Georgia State’s press release introducing Cobb, he revealed that Georgia Southern’s athletic director Tom Kleinlein told him «welcome, now the war is on. During the run up to the game, fans from both teams expressed their dislike for the other over social media outlets such as Twitter , at times trending with tags of «SouthernNotState» which were used as slogans for shirts.

While Georgia State already had a history with Georgia Southern before the emergence of football, the schools entry into the Sun Belt Conference would start an intense football rivalry.

After the first season of play between the two teams in with Georgia Southern beating Georgia State 69—31, it was agreed by both universities athletic departments to introduce a rivalry series, with points allocated for each sport played between the two schools.

Georgia State would win the first and second years of the rivalry series, with the Panthers beating the Eagles on the gridiron in 34—7, the win granting bowl eligibility, and again in , 30— Georgia State began hosting its home games at Center Parc Stadium during the season. Following the Braves’ move to a new stadium, Georgia State purchased the stadium and converted it for football use.

On August 8, it was announced that the field would be named Parker H. Center Parc Stadium boasts the 8th-largest video board in college football, with a 71 x 79 foot span and an area of 5, square feet. From the program’s inception in until the season, the Georgia State Panthers played home games in the Georgia Dome, located just north of the Georgia State main campus in Downtown Atlanta.

It was the largest cable-supported domed stadium in the world and had a football capacity of 71, The following are Panthers who played in the National Football League or are currently playing in a professional football league:.

Announced schedules as of August 10, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Georgia State University sports team. See also: List of Georgia State Panthers football seasons. Main article: List of Georgia State Panthers head football coaches. See also: Modern Day Hate. Main article: Center Parc Stadium. Main article: Georgia Dome. September 18, Retrieved March 14, Georgia State Athletics. Retrieved April 7, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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