South Alabama starts football, to be FBS (1-A) in 2013

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South Alabama will start playing football in 2009, and look to join the Sun Belt Conference in 2013.

There is no truth to the rumor that Bobby Bowden tried to convince them to start a year earlier, so FSU could play them this September.

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Jones to become South Alabama's first coach

MOBILE, Ala. -- Birmingham-Southern College coach Joey Jones was hired as South Alabama's first football coach, a move that takes him back to his native Mobile and eventually into the Sun Belt Conference.

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