- Source: 1917 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
- 1917 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- 1916 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
- South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- 1917 LSU Tigers football team
- 1918 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
- SMU Mustangs football
- Mercer Bears football
- 1917 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
- List of SMU Mustangs football seasons
The 1917 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1917 college football season. The season began on September 28. A curtailing of expenses was required for extension into 1918.
John Heisman's Georgia Tech team won the conference and was the South's first consensus national champion. Tech captain Walker Carpenter and halfback Everett Strupper were the first players from the Deep South ever selected for an All-America first-team. Tech quarterback Albert Hill led the nation in scoring. Though Centre did not claim a championship, it also posted an undefeated conference record, beginning the rise of its football program.
Regular season
SIAA teams in bold.
= Week One
== Week Two
== Week Three
== Week Four
== Week Five
== Week Six
== Week Seven
== Week Eight
== Week Nine
== Week Ten
=Awards and honors
= All-Americans
=T – Walker Carpenter, Georgia Tech (MS, DJ)
C – Pup Phillips, Georgia Tech (DJ)
QB – Albert Hill, Georgia Tech (JV-2)
HB – Everett Strupper, Georgia Tech (MS; JV-2; PP-1 [qb], DJ [qb])
HB – Joe Guyon, Georgia Tech (PP-2, DJ)
= All-Southern team
=The composite All-Southern eleven formed by the selection of 7 coaches and sporting writers included: