For the past month, the Southern Conference has been watching the league’s frontrunners, Samford, Wofford and Chattanooga, to see which one will reach out and take the 2013 SoCon championship. None of them did. On Saturday, while Wofford was losing to Appalachian State and Chattanooga was losing in overtime to Samford, Furman (6-5, 5-2 SoCon), which was 2-4 and 0-2 at one point this season, put itself into position to claim the league’s automatic bid to the FCS playoffs and a share of the SoCon championship with a win over Western Carolina.