The Santa Monica College football team plays in the Southern California Football Association and plays its home games at historic Corsair Stadium, which opened in 1948. The program has long served as a stepping stone for players transferring to four-year universities and has produced numerous future professional players, including Pro Football Hall of Famers Jimmy Johnson and Isaac Bruce, along with Steve Smith Sr. and Chad Johnson. SMC football has also won numerous conference championships and remains one of the college’s most prominent athletic programs.

The program’s greatest early achievement came in 1958, when Santa Monica completed an undefeated season and defeated Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in the Junior Rose Bowl, a game widely regarded at the time as the national championship for junior-college football. That team was later inducted into the SMC Sports Hall of Fame. The Corsairs have enjoyed several other undefeated seasons and championship runs, including a 2015 team that went undefeated and won the American Division Bowl Championship, earning promotion into Southern California’s elite National Conference.

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