MOBILE, Alabama -- Earlier this week, South Alabama head coach Joey Jones said if his team received a bowl invitation it would represent the biggest moment in the program's six-season history.

At 1 p.m. today, the school will officially announce it has accepted a bowl berth int he first Raycom Media Camellia Bowl to be played Sat., Dec. 20 at 8:15 p.m. at Cramton Bowl. The press conference will take place at the John Counts Room of the Mitchell Center on campus and the public is invited to attend.

And according to Jones, it is at that time the Jaguars' program will have it's biggest moment to date. That seems right. So we'll put that at the top of the list of this list of the five biggest moments in South Alabama's football history:

1. First Bowl Invitation: In its sixth season playing football, its second year in which it was eligible to win the Sun Belt Conference championship and receive a bowl berth, the Jags were invited to play in the first Camellia Bowl in Montgomery. USA finished the year with a 6-6 record for the second straight season, the second year it was bowl eligible.

2. Board of Trustees approves football: The question seemed to pop up every day for a long period of time: "When will South Alabama start a football program?'' The school had enjoyed success in other sports and dabbled at times with the idea of adding football. The answer to the question came on Dec. 6, 2007 when the university's board of trustees, with the approval and support of then-president Gordon Moulton, unanimously approved starting a football (and marching band) program.

3. Mississippi State plays in Mobile: While the game didn't turn out as the jags would have liked -- the Bulldogs won the game 35-3 -- having SEC member Mississippi State play USA in Mobile in the Jags' home opener of the 2014 season is the biggest game in the program's history thus far. The sellout crowd was the first in the program's history and the atmosphere on game day and in the days leading up to the game was impressive.

4. South Alabama's first game (and win): This was the sign - the moment that truly announced football was beginning at South Alabama - that marked the Jaguars' entrance into college football. The first game was played on Sept. 5, 2009 against Hargrave Military Academy, with the Jags winning 30-13 before a crowd of more than 30,000 fans at Ladd-Peebles Stadium. It would be the first game in a first season that found the Jags posting a 7-0 record, a winning streak that would stretch to 19 straight in into the Jags' third season.

5. First game against a FBS opponent at N.C. State: The Jags' streak of 19 straight victories came to an end on Sept. 17, 2011. But it did so on another historical note for the young program - in the team's first game against a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent. After going 7-0 the first year, 10-0 in 2010 and winning its first two games of 2011, the Jags lost 35-13 at North Carolina State. But the game marked the team's arrival on the FBS stage and provided a first glance at what was ahead for the program.

6. Win over UC-Davis in second season: After an inaugural season that found South Alabama playing mostly junior college or prep school teams, the second season of 2010 found the Jags playing only four-year schools. The schedule included Nicholls State, Lamar and another newcomer to football, Georgia State. But it was the Jags' win at UC-Davis - a 24-21 victory on Oct. 23 against a team that had won its Football Championship Subdivision conference title the previous year - that stands out from that 10-0 season.

This story was updat4ed at 11:50 to include a change to the list.