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Initially intended as a night school, Georgia State University was established in 1913 as the Georgia School of Technology's Evening School of Commerce. [23] A reorganization of the University System of Georgia in the 1930s led to the school becoming the Atlanta Extension Center of the University System of Georgia and allowed night students to earn degrees from several colleges in the ...
All GSU teams compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I FBS level as members of the Sun Belt Conference, a conference of which they were a charter member. Previously, GSU was a member of the CAA , and prior to that, the ASUN Conference (then known as the Trans America Athletic Conference, or TAAC).
In 2018, GSU announced that the 8,000-seat Georgia State Convocation Center, hosting the men's and women's basketball teams, was being developed near the recently acquired Turner Field property. [2] Ground was broken the same year, and the facility was completed in time for the 2022–23 season.
The Georgia State Panthers college football team represents Georgia State University in the Sun Belt Conference (SBC). The Panthers compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The school has had four head coaches, and one interim head coach since it began play during the 2010 season
Georgia State claims the GSU title being that it became a university in 1969, more than 20 years before Georgia Southern (and therefore becoming GSU far in advance of Georgia Southern). [ citation needed ] Georgia Southern, on the other hand, has a more extensive history of football than Georgia State, restarting its program in 1981 and winning ...
The 2021 Georgia State Panthers football team represented Georgia State University (GSU) during the 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season.The Panthers were led by fifth-year head coach Shawn Elliott.
Georgia State's main rival is Georgia Southern. [6] The multi-sports rivalry is known as "Modern Day Hate".[7] [8] State and Southern remain conference rivals in men's soccer, as Southern moved that sport to the MAC along with State [3] before the SBC reinstated men's soccer in 2022.
The 2020–21 Georgia State Panthers men's basketball team represented Georgia State University during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Panthers, led by second-year head coach Rob Lanier, played their home games at the GSU Sports Arena in Atlanta, Georgia as members of the Sun Belt Conference.