Southern Oregon Raiders football

The Southern Oregon Raiders football team represents Southern Oregon University in the sport of American football. The Raiders team competes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) as an associate member of the Frontier Conference. Southern Oregon University has fielded an official football team since 1927 and has an all-time record of 349–351–15 (a .499 winning percentage). The Raiders play in Raider Stadium in Ashland, Oregon, which has a capacity of 5,000. Southern Oregon has played in two NAIA national championship games, winning one, and have won thirteen conference championships in multiple conferences.

The Raiders have been successful in the twenty-first century, participating in the NAIA championship tournament four times. Twenty-three Raiders players have been named first-team NAIA All-Americans and two were named to Academic All-America teams. There have been two Southern Oregon players selected in the NFL Draft, one of which, Jeff Beathard, was the 1988 draft's Mr. Irrelevant. Thirty-eight Raiders players have been inducted into the university's athletic Hall of Fame, as have three individual football teams. The primary colors for the program are black and red. The school's mascot is a red-tailed hawk. Southern Oregon has long-standing rivalries with three of their current conference opponents: Montana Tech, Carroll College, and Western Oregon.