Millsaps Majors football

The gridiron Majors have posted two undefeated regular seasons in their history (1980 & 2008), earned three NCAA playoff tournament berths (1975, 2006 & 2008) and claimed six Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championships (1991, 1996, 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009).

In 1975, Davis guided the team to its first-ever berth in the Division III playoffs, where the Majors lost to eventual national champion Wittenberg in the semifinal round to finish the year with a 9–2 record.

Ron Jurney, who succeeded Ranager, guided the Majors to an 8–2 (4–1) finish and a share of the program's second SCAC championship in his first season in 1996, earning him conference "Coach of the Year" honors.

The Majors snapped Trinity's streak of 12 consecutive victories by a 13–10 margin in the season finale in Jackson to share the SCAC title with the Tigers.

The much anticipated game was played at Memorial Stadium in Jackson before more than 10,000 fans, with the Majors kicking the winning field goal with 16 seconds left for a 20–19 victory.

In 2003, Millsaps hired David Saunders to fill Tyler's vacated post, making him the program's fourth coach in the fourteen seasons since Harper Davis's retirement.

DuBose never returned his starters to the game as his team's lead began to dwindle and Mississippi College roared back with three touchdowns in the final quarter to claim a 27–26 victory.

The team avenged 2007's crushing loses at the hands of Mississippi College and Trinity, pummeling the Choctaws 42–6 in the eighth edition of the renewed Backyard Brawl and punishing the Tigers 56–27 in San Antonio.

The team's fourth conference championship in as many years was added to the accomplishments of the winningest senior class in the program's history, who finished their four-year careers with a 33–10 overall record.

Millsaps won their next three games, including an emotional 24–6 victory over Trinity after a week in which Coach DuBose's wife Polly underwent the first of several breast cancer surgeries that took place during the season.

[7] The team finished the season on a positive note, handily dispatching of their last four opponents, including a homecoming victory over previously undefeated Centre.

Pelch, a former Weber State University player and 2001 graduate, was a defensive assistant for DuBose's Majors from 2006 to 2008, before joining Tom Cable's Oakland Raiders staff as a special teams coach in 2009.

Pelch guided the 2010 Majors to a 7–3 (5–1) record in his first season, but the team saw its streak of 4 consecutive SCAC championships snapped by virtue of a 21–35 home loss to DePauw, who finished the year 6–0 in conference play.