Southeastern Conference

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Southeastern Conference

Association	NCAA
Founded	1932; 92 years ago (1932)[1]
Commissioner	Greg Sankey (since 2015)
Sports fielded	22[2] men's: 9 women's: 13
Division	Division I
Subdivision	FBS
No. of teams	16
Headquarters	Roy F. Kramer Building 2201 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd. Birmingham, Alabama United States
Region	South South Atlantic East South Central West South Central Midwest West North Central
Official website	secsports.com
Locations

The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Its 16 members include the flagship public universities of 12 states, three additional public land-grant universities, and one private research university. The conference is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I in sports competitions. In football, it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A.

The SEC was established in 1932 by 13 members of the Southern Conference. Three charter members left by the late 1960s, but additions in 1990 and 2012 grew the conference to 14 member institutions. The conference expanded to 16 members with the addition of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas in 2024.^[3]

In 1992, the SEC was the first NCAA Division I conference to have a championship game for football and was one of the founding member conferences of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). The conference sponsors team championships in nine men's sports and 13 women's sports. The conference distributed $721.8 million to its 14 schools in 2022.^[4]

The SEC consists of 16 member institutions located in the U.S. states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. The SEC was formerly divided into East and West Divisions, although the divisional alignment was not strictly geographic, with Missouri in the East Division while being farther west than several West Division schools, and Auburn in the West Division despite being located farther east than East Division schools Missouri and Vanderbilt.^[5] These divisional groupings were applied only in football, baseball, and women's soccer, for both scheduling and standings purposes. In football, the two division winners met in the SEC Championship Game.

The SEC eliminated its baseball and football divisions once Oklahoma and Texas joined in 2024.^[6][7]

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Enrollment (Fall 2022)[8]	Endowment (billions)[9]	Nickname	Colors
University of Alabama	Tuscaloosa, Alabama	1831	1932	39,623	$2.089 (system-wide)	Crimson Tide
University of Arkansas	Fayetteville, Arkansas	1871	1992	32,140	$1.527	Razorbacks
Auburn University	Auburn, Alabama	1856	1932	33,015	$1.079	Tigers
University of Florida	Gainesville, Florida	1853	1932	60,489	$2.337	Gators
University of Georgia	Athens, Georgia	1785	1932	40,118	$1.811	Bulldogs
University of Kentucky	Lexington, Kentucky	1865	1932	33,885	$1.808	Wildcats
Louisiana State University	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	1860	1932	39,419	$1.061 (system-wide)	Tigers
University of Mississippi	University, Mississippi[a]	1848	1932	24,710[b]	$0.836	Rebels
Mississippi State University	Mississippi State, Mississippi[c]	1878	1932	22,657	$0.709	Bulldogs
University of Missouri	Columbia, Missouri	1839	2012	31,041	$2.235 (system-wide)	Tigers
University of Oklahoma	Norman, Oklahoma	1890	2024	32,676	$1.674[10]	Sooners
University of South Carolina	Columbia, South Carolina	1801	1992	36,538	$0.952	Gamecocks
University of Tennessee	Knoxville, Tennessee	1794	1932	36,304	$1.600 (system-wide)	Volunteers
University of Texas at Austin	Austin, Texas	1883	2024	53,082	$44.967 (system-wide)	Longhorns
Texas A&M University	College Station, Texas	1876	2012	77,491	$19.285 (system-wide)	Aggies
Vanderbilt University	Nashville, Tennessee	1873	1932	13,456	$9.684	Commodores

Notes

Three schools have left the SEC, all charter members:

• The University of the South ("Sewanee") developed an elite college football program around the turn of the 20th century, with some observers opining that the 1899 "Iron Tigers" were the most dominant squad in history.^[11] However, after helping to establish the SEC in the early 1930s, it became clear that the small private institution's athletic teams could no longer compete with those from large state universities. Sewanee Tigers football squads never won a conference game, going 0–36 in league play over eight seasons while enjoying much more success against non-conference foes from comparably-sized institutions.^[12] As such, Sewanee opted to leave the SEC after the 1940 season and transitioned its athletic programs to the lower divisions of intercollegiate play.^[13] The school is currently a member of the Southern Athletic Association.^[a]
• Georgia Tech left the SEC in 1964 due to controversy over the conference's regulation of recruiting and scholarships. Georgia Tech athletic director and head football coach Bobby Dodd had lobbied the league to establish rules prohibiting several practices, particularly the oversigning of players by Alabama coach Bear Bryant and others.^[14] When league members voted against tightening the rules, Dodd withdrew the Yellow Jackets from the SEC. The school played as an independent for several years, and in 1978, Georgia Tech joined another Southern Conference offshoot, the Atlantic Coast Conference.^[12]
• Tulane left the SEC in 1966. The school's athletic squads were competitive in the early days of the conference, but much like Sewanee, the private institution's programs found it difficult to compete against large state universities. This was particularly true in football; the Green Wave were SEC champs in 1949 but never again posted a winning record in conference play. Tulane left the SEC in 1966 and subsequently considered dropping to lower levels of NCAA competition or even ending its football program altogether to focus on academics.^[15] However, the school has remained in Division I and joined the American Athletic Conference in 2014.^[12]

Institution	Location	Establishment	Joined SEC	Left SEC	Type	Nickname	Colors	Current conference
Sewanee: The University of the South	Sewanee, Tennessee	1857	1932	1940	Private (Episcopal)	Tigers		SAA[a]
Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, Georgia	1885	1932	1964	Public	Yellow Jackets		ACC
Tulane University	New Orleans, Louisiana	1834	1932	1966	Private	Green Wave		The American

Notes

The SEC was established December 8 and 9, 1932, in Knoxville, Tennessee, when the thirteen members of the large Southern Conference located west and south of the Appalachian Mountains left to form their own conference. Ten of the thirteen founding members have remained in the conference since its inception: the University of Alabama, Auburn University, the University of Florida, the University of Georgia, the University of Kentucky, Louisiana State University ("LSU"), the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss"), Mississippi State University, the University of Tennessee, and Vanderbilt University ("Vandy"). The SEC had no formal headquarters during its first eight years of existence, but in 1940, former Governor of Mississippi Martin "Mike" Conner was named the conference's first president, with the league establishing its first corporate headquarters on the 13th floor of the Standard Life Building in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. The SEC office remained there until 1948, when it moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where it remains.^[16] The three founding members that have since left the conference are Sewanee, who left after the 1940 season to drop all athletic scholarships and become a D-III Independent; Georgia Tech, who left after the 1963 season and became a D-I Independent; and Tulane, who left after the 1965 season and became a D-I Independent.

In 1935, the SEC became the first conference to legalize athletic scholarships.^[17]

White southerners committed to maintaining segregation created controversy preceding the 1956 Sugar Bowl, when the Pitt Panthers, with African-American fullback Bobby Grier on the roster, met the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.^[18] White southern segregationists created controversy by claiming that Grier should be barred from the game due to his race, and whether Georgia Tech should even play at all due to Georgia's Governor Marvin Griffin's opposition to racial integration.^[19][20][21] After Griffin publicly sent a telegram to the state's Board of Regents requesting Georgia Tech not to engage in racially integrated events, Georgia Tech's president Blake R. Van Leer rejected the request and threatened to resign. The game went on as planned.^[22]

The 1959 Mississippi State men's basketball team, led by all-American Bailey Howell, finished its season 24–1, winning the conference title. They did not participate in the NCAA tournament as school and state officials would not permit the team to play against Black players from northern schools. Four years later, in 1963, Loyola, with four black starters, played Mississippi State in the "Game of Change".^[23]

It was not until 1966 that African Americans first participated in an SEC athletic contest, and the first black scholarship athletes did not play in the SEC until the 1967–68 school year.

The first African American to compete in the SEC was Stephen Martin, who walked on to the Tulane baseball team in that school's final SEC season of 1966.^[24] In August of that same year, Kentucky enrolled Nate Northington and Greg Page on football scholarships,^[25] and Vanderbilt enrolled Godfrey Dillard and Perry Wallace on basketball scholarships.^[26] At the time, the NCAA did not allow freshmen to compete on varsity teams, which meant that these pioneers could not play until 1967. Page died from complications of a spinal cord injury suffered during a football practice before ever playing a game,^[25] while Dillard suffered a career-altering injury before getting a chance to play for Vanderbilt's varsity and transferred to Eastern Michigan.^[26] The remaining two both played in the 1967–68 school year. Northington made his overall debut against Indiana on September 23, 1967^[27][28] and his SEC debut against Ole Miss the following week on September 30 (the day after Page's death^[25]), while Wallace made his varsity debut later that year.^[29]

In 1990, the SEC expanded from ten to twelve member universities with the addition of the Arkansas Razorbacks and the South Carolina Gamecocks. The two new members began SEC competition with the 1991–1992 basketball season.

At the same time, the SEC organized competition for some sports into two divisions. The Western Division comprised six of the seven member schools in the Central Time Zone, while the Eastern Division comprised the five member schools in the Eastern Time Zone plus Vanderbilt, which is in the Central Time Zone but was placed in the Eastern Division to preserve its rivalry with Tennessee. Initially, the divisional format was used in football, baseball, and men's basketball. The divisional format was dropped for men's basketball following the 2011–2012 season.

Following expansion, the SEC was the first conference to receive permission from the NCAA to sponsor an annual football championship game that did not count against NCAA limits on regular-season contests, featuring the winners of the conference's Eastern and Western divisions.^[30] The 1992 and 1993 championship games were held at Legion Field in Birmingham, and all championship games from 1994 onward have been held in Atlanta—first at the Georgia Dome until its closure and demolition after the 2016 season, and since 2017 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.^[30]

On September 25, 2011, the SEC Presidents and Chancellors, acting unanimously, announced that Texas A&M University would join the SEC effective July 1, 2012, to begin competition in nineteen of the twenty sports sponsored by the SEC during the 2012–13 academic year.^[31] On November 6, 2011, the SEC commissioner announced that the University of Missouri would also join the SEC on July 1, 2012.^[32] For football, Texas A&M was scheduled to compete in the Western Division, and Missouri in the Eastern Division.^{[33][34][35][36]} Texas A&M and Missouri both left the Big 12 Conference.

On July 27, 2021, Oklahoma and Texas formally notified the SEC they were seeking "an invitation for membership". In a joint letter, Texas president Jay Hartzell and Oklahoma president Joseph Harroz Jr. wrote, "We believe that there would be mutual benefit to the Universities on the one hand, and the SEC on the other hand, for the Universities to become members of the SEC."^[37] On July 29, 2021, the presidents of the current 14 schools of the SEC voted unanimously to extend an offer of admission to Oklahoma and Texas.^[38] The boards of regents for both institutions on July 30, 2021, accepted conference membership, and the schools were tentatively scheduled to join the league in 2025.

On February 9, 2023, the Big 12, Texas, and Oklahoma announced they had reached a buyout agreement that allowed the schools to join the SEC in 2024. The Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners athletic teams thus began league play during the 2024–25 academic year.^[39]

Full members  Full members (non-football)  Other Conference  Other Conference 

The office of Commissioner was created in 1940.^[40]

Years	Commissioners
1940–1945	Martin S. Conner
1951–1965	Bernie Moore
1966–1971	A. M. "Tonto" Coleman
1972–1985	H. Boyd McWhorter
1986–1989	Harvey W. Schiller
1990–2001	Roy F. Kramer
2002–2015	Michael Slive
2015–present	Greg Sankey

In 2005, the member institutions of the Southeastern Conference formed the SEC Academic Consortium (SECAC), a collaborative endeavor designed to promote research, scholarship, and achievement amongst the universities.^[41]

In 2011, the SEC Academic Consortium was relocated to the SEC headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, from its original home on the campus of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and was renamed SECU. The SECU rebranded its mission to better serve as a means through which the collaborative academic endeavors and achievements of Southeastern Conference universities would be promoted and advanced. The SECU's goals included highlighting the endeavors and achievements of SEC faculty, students, and its universities; advancing the academic reputation of SEC universities; identifying and preparing future leaders for high-level service in academia; increasing the amount and type of study abroad opportunities available for students; and providing opportunities for collaboration among SEC university personnel.^[42][43] The Big Ten Conference, since 1958, has had a similar program, now called the Big Ten Academic Alliance.

The SEC Symposium component of SECU was crafted by Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, who at the time was the Vice President of the SEC Executive Committee and liaison to SECU.^[44] In an interview with Dr. Zeppos about the formation of the SECU he noted, "that the member institutions of the Southeastern Conference are committed to a shared mission of fostering research, scholarship, and achievement. The SEC Symposium represents a platform to connect, collaborate and promote a productive dialogue that will span disciplinary and institutional boundaries and allow us to work together for the betterment of society."^[45]

The SEC Academic Network was created in 2009 in partnership with ESPN. The SEC Academic Network was an online library of institutionally produced videos featuring academic initiatives and stories from all Southeastern Conference institutions. The SEC Academic Network was officially merged into the SECU operation.^[46]

The following table shows National University rank by U.S. News & World Report as of 2023.^[47]

Also indicated is membership in the Association of American Universities.^[48]

Institution	National University Rank	AAU Member
Vanderbilt University	18	Yes
University of Florida	28	Yes
University of Texas at Austin	32	Yes
University of Georgia	47	No
Texas A&M University	47	Yes
Auburn University	93	No
University of Tennessee	105	No
University of South Carolina	124	No
University of Missouri	124	Yes
University of Oklahoma	124	No
University of Alabama	142	No
University of Kentucky	159	No
University of Mississippi	163	No
University of Arkansas	178	No
Louisiana State University	185	No
Mississippi State University	216	No

Total revenue includes ticket sales, contributions and donations, rights and licensing, student fees, school funds and all other sources including TV income, camp income, concessions, and novelties.

Total expenses includes coach and staff salaries, scholarships, buildings and grounds, maintenance, utilities and rental fees, recruiting, team travel, equipment and uniforms, conference dues, and insurance.

The following table shows institutional reporting to the United States Department of Education as shown on the DOE Equity in Athletics website for the 2021–22 academic year.^[49]

Institution	2021–22 Total Revenue from Athletics	2021–22 Total Expenses on Athletics
University of Texas at Austin	$230,503,008	$192,754,766
University of Georgia	$203,048,566	$159,508,178
Louisiana State University	$199,309,381	$192,770,400
University of Alabama	$193,168,171	$174,715,501
University of Oklahoma	$186,948,657	$185,625,893
University of Florida	$177,969,655	$177,969,655
Auburn University	$174,568,438	$146,645,900
Texas A&M University	$169,220,001	$157,702,310
University of Arkansas	$154,551,832	$148,280,378
University of Tennessee	$152,662,163	$152,662,163
University of Kentucky	$151,490,901	$151,254,460
University of South Carolina	$144,815,377	$144,815,377
University of Mississippi	$123,796,191	$123,796,191
Vanderbilt University	$110,941,948	$110,941,948
Mississippi State University	$109,091,372	$100,888,464
University of Missouri	$107,823,990	$107,823,990

The following table shows revenue specifically from NCAA / Conference Distributions, Media Rights, and Post-Season Football reported by the Knight Commission for the 2021–22 academic year.^[50]

Institution	2021–22 Distribution (Millions of dollars)
University of Alabama	$75.61
University of Kentucky	$75.24
Auburn University	$67.75
University of Florida	$65.13
Louisiana State University	$61.63
University of Georgia	$58.62
University of Arkansas	$56.18
University of Tennessee	$55.17
University of South Carolina	$54.62
Mississippi State University	$59.88
University of Mississippi	$59.28
University of Missouri	$53.63
Texas A&M University	$51.11
Vanderbilt University	Not Reported

School	Athletic director	Football coach	Men's basketball coach	Women's basketball coach	Baseball coach	Softball coach	Volleyball coach
Alabama	Greg Byrne	Kalen DeBoer	Nate Oats	Kristy Curry	Rob Vaughn	Patrick Murphy	Rashinda Reed
Arkansas	Hunter Yurachek	Sam Pittman	John Calipari	Mike Neighbors	Dave Van Horn	Courtney Deifel	Jason Watson
Auburn	John Cohen	Hugh Freeze	Bruce Pearl	Johnnie Harris	Butch Thompson	Chris Malveaux & Kate Malveaux	Brent Crouch
Florida	Scott Stricklin	Billy Napier	Todd Golden	Kelly Rae Finley	Kevin O'Sullivan	Tim Walton	Mary Wise
Georgia	Josh Brooks	Kirby Smart	Mike White	Katie Abrahamson-Henderson	Wes Johnson	Tony Baldwin	Tom Black
Kentucky	Mitch Barnhart	Mark Stoops	Mark Pope	Kenny Brooks	Nick Mingione	Rachel Lawson	Craig Skinner
LSU	Scott Woodward	Brian Kelly	Matt McMahon	Kim Mulkey	Jay Johnson	Beth Torina	Tonya Johnson
Ole Miss	Keith Carter	Lane Kiffin	Chris Beard	Yolett McPhee-McCuin	Mike Bianco	Jamie Trachsel	Bre Henry
Mississippi State	Zac Selmon	Jeff Lebby	Chris Jans	Sam Purcell	Chris Lemonis	Samantha Ricketts	Julie Darty
Missouri	Laird Veatch	Eliah Drinkwitz	Dennis Gates	Robin Pingeton	Kerrick Jackson	Larissa Anderson	Dawn Sullivan
Oklahoma	Joe Castiglione	Brent Venables	Porter Moser	Jennie Baranczyk	Skip Johnson	Patty Gasso	Aaron Mansfield
South Carolina	Ray Tanner	Shane Beamer	Lamont Paris	Dawn Staley	Paul Mainieri	Ashley Chastain	Tom Mendoza
Tennessee	Danny White	Josh Heupel	Rick Barnes	Kim Caldwell	Tony Vitello	Karen Weekly	Eve Rackham
Texas	Chris Del Conte	Steve Sarkisian	Rodney Terry	Vic Schaefer	Jim Schlossnagle	Mike White	Jerritt Elliott
Texas A&M	Trev Alberts	Mike Elko	Buzz Williams	Joni Taylor	Michael Earley	Trisha Ford	Jamie Morrison
Vanderbilt	Candice Storey Lee	Clark Lea	Mark Byington	Shea Ralph	Tim Corbin	No team	Anders Nelson[a]

School	Football stadium	Capacity	Basketball arena	Capacity	Baseball stadium	Capacity
Alabama	Bryant–Denny Stadium[52]	100,077	Coleman Coliseum[52]	15,383	Sewell–Thomas Stadium[52]	8,500
Arkansas	Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium[53][a]	76,000	Bud Walton Arena[53]	19,368	Baum–Walker Stadium[53]	10,737
Auburn	Jordan–Hare Stadium[54]	88,043	Neville Arena[55]	9,121	Plainsman Park[56]	4,096
Florida	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium[57]	88,548	O'Connell Center[57]	10,136	Condron Ballpark[58]	7,000
Georgia	Sanford Stadium[59]	92,746	Stegeman Coliseum[60]	10,523	Foley Field[61]	3,291
Kentucky	Kroger Field[62]	61,000	Rupp Arena[63] Memorial Coliseum[64][b]	20,545 6,500	Kentucky Proud Park[65]	5,000[c]
LSU	Tiger Stadium[66]	102,321	Pete Maravich Assembly Center[67]	13,215	Alex Box Stadium[68]	10,326
Ole Miss	Vaught–Hemingway Stadium[69]	64,038	The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss[69]	9,500	Swayze Field[69]	11,477[70]
Mississippi State	Davis Wade Stadium[71]	60,311	Humphrey Coliseum[71]	10,575	Dudy Noble Field[72]	15,000[d][74]
Missouri	Faurot Field[75]	62,621	Mizzou Arena[75]	15,061	Taylor Stadium[75]	3,031
Oklahoma	Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium[76]	80,126	Lloyd Noble Center[77]	10,967	L. Dale Mitchell Park[78]	3,180
South Carolina	Williams–Brice Stadium[79]	77,559	Colonial Life Arena[80]	18,000	Founders Park[80]	8,242
Tennessee	Neyland Stadium[81]	101,915	Thompson–Boling Arena[81]	21,678	Lindsey Nelson Stadium[81]	5,548
Texas	Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium[82]	100,119	Moody Center[83]	10,000[e]	UFCU Disch–Falk Field[84]	6,649
Texas A&M	Kyle Field[85]	102,733	Reed Arena[86]	12,989	Blue Bell Park[87]	6,100[88]
Vanderbilt	FirstBank Stadium[89]	34,000[f]	Memorial Gymnasium[89]	14,316	Hawkins Field[89]	3,700

School	Provider
Alabama	Nike
Arkansas	Nike
Auburn	Under Armour (Nike starting in 2025)
Florida	Air Jordan (Nike)
Georgia	Nike
Kentucky	Nike
LSU	Nike
Mississippi State	Adidas
Missouri	Nike
Oklahoma	Air Jordan (Nike)
Ole Miss	Nike
South Carolina	Under Armour
Tennessee	Nike
Texas	Nike
Texas A&M	Adidas
Vanderbilt	Nike

The Southeastern Conference sponsors championship competition in nine men's and thirteen women's NCAA sanctioned sports.^[91][92] Under SEC conference rules reflecting the large number of male scholarship participants in football and attempting to address gender equity concerns (see also Title IX), each member institution is required to provide two more women's varsity sports than men's. A similar rule was recently adopted by the NCAA for all of Division I.^[93][94]

Teams in SEC conference competition

Sport	Men's	Women's
Baseball	16	-
Basketball	16	16
Cross country	14	16
Equestrian	-	4
Football	16	-
Golf	16	16
Gymnastics	-	9
Rowing	-	4
Soccer	-	16
Softball	-	15
Swimming & diving	11	13
Tennis	15	16
Indoor track & field	15	16
Outdoor track & field	15	16
Volleyball	-	15

School	Baseball	Basket­ball	Cross country	Football	Golf	Swimming and diving	Tennis	Track and field (indoor)	Track and field (outdoor)	Total SEC Sports
Alabama	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Arkansas	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Auburn	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Florida	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Georgia	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Kentucky	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
LSU	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Mississippi State	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	7
Missouri	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	8
Oklahoma	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Ole Miss	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
South Carolina	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Tennessee	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Texas	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Texas A&M	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Vanderbilt	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	6
Totals	16	16	14	16	16	11	15	15	15	116

Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the Southeastern Conference which are played by SEC schools:

School	Gymnastics	Rifle[a]	Soccer	Wrestling
Kentucky	No	GARC	Sun Belt	No
Missouri	No	No	No	Big 12
Oklahoma	MPSF	No	No	Big 12
South Carolina	No	No	Sun Belt	No

School	Basketball	Cross country	Eques­trian	Golf	Gym­nastics	Rowing[95]	Soccer	Softball	Swimming and diving	Tennis	Track and field (indoor)	Track and field (outdoor)	Volleyball	Total SEC sports
Alabama	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	12
Arkansas	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Auburn	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	12
Florida	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Georgia	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	12
Kentucky	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
LSU	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Mississippi State	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Missouri	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Oklahoma	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Ole Miss	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
South Carolina	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Tennessee	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Texas	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Texas A&M	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Vanderbilt	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No[a]	8
Totals	16	16	4	16	9	4	16	15	13	16	16	16	15	152

Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Southeastern Conference which are played by SEC schools:

School	Beach volleyball	Bowling	Lacrosse	Rifle[b]	Stunt[c]
Florida	No	No	Big 12	No	No
Kentucky	No	No	No	GARC	Independent
LSU	CCSA	No	No	No	No
Ole Miss	No	No	No	GARC	No
South Carolina	CCSA	No	No	No	No
Texas	CCSA	No	No	No	No
Vanderbilt	No	CUSA	The American	No	No

• In addition to the above, Kentucky lists its coeducational cheerleading squad and its all-female dance team as varsity teams on its athletics website.

• (RS) indicates regular-season champion
• (T) indicates tournament champion
• Champions from the previous academic year are indicated with the year of their title.

Season	Sport	Men's champion		Women's champion
Fall 2023	Cross country	Arkansas		Florida
	Football	Alabama		–
	Soccer	–		Arkansas (RS)	Georgia (T)
	Volleyball	–		Kentucky
Winter 2023–24	Basketball	Tennessee (RS)	Auburn (T)	South Carolina (RS & T)
	Equestrian	–		Auburn
	Gymnastics	–		Florida (RS)	LSU (T)
	Swimming and diving	Florida		Florida
	Track and field (indoor)	Arkansas		Arkansas
Spring 2024	Baseball	Kentucky & Tennessee (RS)	Tennessee (T)	–
	Softball	–		Tennessee (RS)	Florida (T)
	Golf	Auburn		Mississippi State
	Tennis	Kentucky (RS & T)		Georgia & Texas A&M (RS)	Georgia (T)
	Track and field (outdoor)	Arkansas		LSU

Source: SECSports.com.^[97]

For the current season, see 2024 Southeastern Conference football season.

SEC teams did not play a uniform number of conference games until 1974. Prior to that, the number of conference games teams played ranged from four to eight, but most played a 6- or 7- game schedule. The league adopted a uniform 6-game schedule from 1974 to 1987, and added a seventh conference game from 1988 to 1991. Through this period and through the earlier years each SEC school had five permanent opponents, developing some traditional rivalries between schools, and the other games rotated around the other members of the conference.

After expansion to twelve programs in 1992, the SEC went to an 8-game conference schedule, with each team playing the five other teams in their division and three opponents from the other division. The winners of the two divisions would then meet in the SEC Championship Game.

From 1992 through 2002, each team had two permanent inter-divisional opponents, allowing many traditional rivalries from the pre-expansion era (such as Florida vs. Auburn, Kentucky vs. LSU, and Vanderbilt vs. Alabama) to continue. However, complaints from some league athletic directors about imbalance in the schedule (for instance, Auburn's two permanent opponents from the East were Florida and Georgia – two of the SEC's stronger football programs at the time – while Mississippi State played Kentucky and South Carolina every year) led to the SEC reducing the number of permanent inter-division opponents to one starting in the 2003 season. The TV networks televising SEC games were also pressuring for the change so attractive match-ups between non-traditional opponents would happen twice every five years instead of twice every eight years. With the subsequent expansion to 14 members in 2012, non-permanent cross-division opponents face each other in the regular season twice in a span of twelve years.

Under the format used from 2012 to 2023, each school played a total of eight conference games, consisting of the other six teams in its division, one school from the other division on a rotating basis, and one school from the other division that it plays each year. The permanent cross-division matchups were: Alabama–Tennessee; Arkansas–Missouri; Auburn–Georgia; LSU–Florida; Mississippi State–Kentucky; Ole Miss–Vanderbilt; Texas A&M–South Carolina.

The then-current scheduling arrangement was originally set to expire after the 2015 season, but the SEC presidents voted 10–4^[98] in April 2014 to keep the current format for an additional six to eight seasons beyond 2015.^[99] Additionally, since 2016, SEC teams have been required to schedule at least one opponent each season from the other so-called "Power Five" conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, or Pac-12); games against select football independent schools also qualify, including Army (which no longer counts as of 2024 due to it joining the American Athletic Conference, a Group of Five conference), BYU (before it joined the Big 12 in 2023), and Notre Dame.^{[99][100][101]}

In 2023, the SEC announced the divisional split would be scrapped when Oklahoma and Texas join in 2024. The conference schedule will remain at 8 games in the 2024 and 2025 seasons while the SEC determines its long-term football scheduling format. Teams will play the same opponents in both seasons on a home-and-home basis. Each of the 14 members in the conference in 2023 will play either Oklahoma or Texas in 2024 and '25, but not both. Whether the conference schedule stays at 8 games or expands to 9 after 2025, each team will be guaranteed of playing all other conference teams home and away in a four-year cycle. The requirement of scheduling at least one Power Four (the Pac-12 lost all but two of its members, Oregon State and Washington State, before the 2024 season; the Beavers have meetings with Ole Miss scheduled in 2027 and 2030, while the Cougars are slated to face Mississippi State in 2030 and '31) team or Notre Dame remains in place. The championship game will feature the top two teams in the conference standings, with tiebreakers as needed.^[102]

Through end of the 2023 season including SEC Championship Game. Records reflect official NCAA results, including any forfeits or win vacating.^[103]

#	Team	Won	Lost	Tied	Win %	SEC championships	Claimed national championships
1	Alabama	965	337	43	.733	30	18
2	Oklahoma	944	341	53	.725	0	7
3	Texas	948	392	33	.702	0	4
4	Tennessee	865	414	53	.669	13	6
5	Georgia	881	429	54	.666	14	4
6	LSU	806	434	47	.645	12	4
7	Florida	758	445	40	.626	8	3
8	Auburn	799	471	47	.625	8	2
9	Texas A&M	778	504	48	.603	0	3
10	Arkansas	740	539	40	.576	0	1
11	Ole Miss	675	547	35	.551	6	3
12	Missouri	711	590	52	.545	0	0
13	South Carolina	635	612	44	.509	0	0
14	Kentucky	643	647	44	.499	2	1
15	Mississippi State	586	609	39	.491	1	0
16	Vanderbilt	618	665	50	.482	0	0

Notes:

• Alabama's record reflects 21 wins being vacated (2005–2007) and eight wins and one tie forfeited (1993).
• Kentucky's record reflects 10 vacated wins from 2021.
• LSU's record reflects 37 wins being vacated (2012–2015) for major level-1 rule violations and playing with ineligible players.
• Mississippi State's record reflects 18 wins and one tie being forfeited (1975–1977).
• Ole Miss's record reflects 33 wins being vacated (2010–2016).
• Tennessee's record reflects 11 wins being vacated (2019–2020) for 18 Level -1 violations encompassing more than 200 individual infractions and an additional four (4) Level-1 unethical conduct violations along with playing 16 ineligible players.
• Two former members have also won conference titles, Georgia Tech five and Tulane three.

From its establishment in 1992 through 2023, the SEC Championship Game pitted the SEC West Division representative against the East Division representative in a game held after the regular season has been completed. Starting in 2024, when the SEC eliminates its football divisions, the game will feature the top two teams in the conference standings. The first two SEC Championship football games were held at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. Since 1994, it has been played in Atlanta—first at the Georgia Dome through 2016, and since 2017 at its replacement, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, with the current hosting contract running through 2027.^[104] The "home team" designation alternated between the division champions during the divisional era, going to the East champion in even-numbered years and the West champion in odd-numbered years. The West led 19-13 in overall wins in the championship game against the East during the divisional era. As of 2023, the only pre-2024 members without a Championship Game appearance are Kentucky, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt.^[105]

The post-season bowl game tie-ins for the SEC for the 2014–2019 seasons are:^[106]

Pick	Name	Location	Opposing conference	Opposing pick	Payout
1^	Sugar Bowl	New Orleans, Louisiana	Big 12	1	$19M
2†	Orange Bowl	Miami Gardens, Florida	ACC	1	$18M
3	Citrus Bowl	Orlando, Florida	Big Ten – ACC°	3/4/5 – 2	$4.2M
4/5/6/7/8/9	ReliaQuest Bowl	Tampa, Florida	Big Ten	3/4/5	$3.5M
4/5/6/7/8/9	Duke's Mayo Bowl	Charlotte, North Carolina	ACC¤	3/4/5/6/7	$1.7M
10/11/12	Las Vegas Bowl	Paradise, Nevada	Pac-12¤		$2.9M
4/5/6/7/8/9	Texas Bowl	Houston, Texas	Big 12	4	$3.0M
4/5/6/7/8/9	Liberty Bowl	Memphis, Tennessee	Big 12	5	$1.4M
4/5/6/7/8/9	Gator Bowl	Jacksonville, Florida	Big Ten – ACC‡	6/7/8 – 3/4/5/6/7	$2.8M
4/5/6/7/8/9	Music City Bowl	Nashville, Tennessee	Big Ten – ACC‡	6/7/8 – 3/4/5/6/7	$2.8M
10/11/12	Gasparilla Bowl	Tampa, Florida	Pool		$1.1M
10/11/12	Birmingham Bowl	Birmingham, Alabama	American	5	$1.4M

Payout is per team for the 2014 season; if different for opposing conference, payout for the SEC team is shown. Each conference member, irrespective of bowl participation, also receives an equal split of a payout to the SEC conference.^{[107][108][109]}

^ The Sugar Bowl is contractually obligated to select the SEC champion if that team is not participating in the College Football Playoff. In years where the champion is unavailable the Playoff Committee will assign another SEC team to participate in the Sugar. Alternatively, in years where the Sugar hosts a playoff game the SEC Champion will be sent to the Fiesta, Cotton, or Peach Bowl if not selected for the playoff.

† The Big Ten and SEC will be eligible to face the ACC representative in the Orange Bowl at least three out of the eight seasons that it does not host a semifinal for the Playoff over a 12-year span. Notre Dame may be chosen the other two years if eligible.

° In years when the Big Ten places a team in the Orange Bowl, the Citrus Bowl will select from ACC teams remaining after the Playoff Committee and Orange Bowl make their selections.

‡ The Big Ten and ACC will switch between the Music City and Gator bowls on alternating years.

¤ For the 2020 through 2025 seasons, the Big Ten and SEC will alternate which conference sends a team to the Duke's Mayo Bowl or the Las Vegas Bowl. SEC will be in the Las Vegas Bowl during the even years and Duke's Mayo Bowl during the odd years.

This section needs to be updated. The reason given is: Many of these coaches are no longer employed by their respective schools.. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (September 2024)

The total pay of head coaches includes university and non-university compensation including base salary, income from contracts, foundation supplements, bonuses and media and radio pay as of the most recent 2023 season. As a private institution, Vanderbilt is not obligated to disclose salary information.

Conference pay rank	Institution	Head coach	2023 total pay
1	University of Alabama	Nick Saban[a]	$11,700,000
2	University of Georgia	Kirby Smart	$11,200,000
3	Louisiana State University	Brian Kelly	$9,500,000[110]
3	Texas A&M University	Jimbo Fisher[b]	$9,500,000
5	University of Mississippi	Lane Kiffin	$9,000,000
5	University of Tennessee	Josh Heupel	$9,000,000
7	University of Kentucky	Mark Stoops	$8,600,000
8	University of Florida	Billy Napier	$7,200,000
9	Auburn University	Hugh Freeze	$6,500,000
10	University of South Carolina	Shane Beamer	$6,200,000
11	University of Arkansas	Sam Pittman	$6,000,000
11	University of Missouri	Eliah Drinkwitz	$6,000,000
13	Mississippi State University	Zach Arnett[c]	$3,000,000
14	Vanderbilt University	Clark Lea	Salary unknown

Each year, the conference selects various individual awards. In 1994, the conference began honoring former players from each school annually with the SEC Football Legends program.

In 1982, the SEC Skywriters, a group of media covering the Southeastern Conference, selected members of their All-Time SEC Team for the first fifty years (1933–82) of the SEC.^[111]

The members of the SEC have longstanding rivalries with each other, especially on the football field. The following is a list of active rivalries in the Southeastern Conference with totals & records through the completion of the 2023 season.

Teams		Rivalry name	Trophy	Meetings	Record	Series leader	Current streak
Alabama	Auburn	Iron Bowl	Foy, V-ODK Sportsmanship Trophy	88	50–37–1	Alabama	Alabama won 4
	Florida	Alabama–Florida football rivalry	None	42	27–14	Alabama	Alabama won 8
	Georgia	Alabama–Georgia football rivalry		74	44–26–4	Alabama	Alabama won 2
	LSU	First Saturday in November		88	56–27–5	Alabama	Alabama won 1
	Mississippi State	Alabama–Mississippi State football rivalry		108	86–18–3	Alabama	Alabama won 16
	Ole Miss	Alabama–Ole Miss football rivalry		71	55–10–2	Alabama	Alabama won 8
	Tennessee	Third Saturday in October		106	59–39–7	Alabama	Tennessee won 1
Arkansas	LSU	Arkansas–LSU football rivalry	Golden Boot	69	23–44–2	LSU	LSU won 2
	Missouri	Battle Line Rivalry	Battle Line Trophy	15	4–11	Missouri	Missouri won 2
	Ole Miss	Arkansas–Ole Miss football rivalry	None	70	38–30–1	Arkansas	Ole Miss won 1
	Texas	Arkansas–Texas football rivalry		79	23–56	Texas	Arkansas won 2
	Texas A&M	Arkansas–Texas A&M football rivalry	Southwest Classic Trophy	80	42–35–3	Arkansas	Texas A&M won 2
Auburn	Alabama	Iron Bowl	Foy, V-ODK Sportsmanship Trophy	88	37–50–1	Alabama	Alabama won 4
	Florida	Auburn–Florida football rivalry	None	84	43–39–2	Auburn	Florida won 1
	Georgia	Deep South's Oldest Rivalry		128	56–64–8	Georgia	Georgia won 7
	LSU	Auburn–LSU football rivalry		58	24–30–1	LSU	LSU won 2
	Ole Miss	Auburn–Ole Miss football rivalry		47	35–12	Auburn	Ole Miss won 2
	Tennessee	Auburn–Tennessee football rivalry		54	29–22–3	Auburn	Auburn won 1
Florida	Alabama	Alabama–Florida football rivalry		42	14–27	Alabama	Alabama won 8
	Auburn	Auburn–Florida football rivalry		84	39–43–2	Auburn	Florida won 1
	Georgia	Florida–Georgia football rivalry	Okefenokee Oar	101	44–55–2	Georgia	Georgia won 3
	Kentucky	Florida–Kentucky football rivalry	None	74	53–21	Florida	Kentucky won 3
	LSU	Florida–LSU football rivalry		70	33–31–3	Florida	LSU won 5
	Tennessee	Florida–Tennessee football rivalry		53	32–21	Florida	Florida won 1
Georgia	Alabama	Alabama–Georgia football rivalry		73	26–43–4	Alabama	Alabama won 1
	Auburn	Deep South's Oldest Rivalry		128	64–56–8	Georgia	Georgia won 7
	Florida	Florida–Georgia football rivalry	Okefenokee Oar	101	55–44–2	Georgia	Georgia won 3
	South Carolina	Georgia–South Carolina football rivalry	None	76	55–19–2	Georgia	Georgia won 4
	Tennessee	Georgia–Tennessee football rivalry		53	28–23–2	Georgia	Georgia won 7
	Vanderbilt	Georgia–Vanderbilt football rivalry		83	61–20–2	Georgia	Georgia won 6
Kentucky	Florida	Florida–Kentucky football rivalry		74	21–53	Florida	Kentucky won 3
	Tennessee	Kentucky–Tennessee football rivalry	Beer Barrel	119	26–82–9	Tennessee	Tennessee won 3
	Vanderbilt	Kentucky–Vanderbilt football rivalry		96	48–43–4	Kentucky	Kentucky won 1
LSU	Alabama	First Saturday in November	88	27–56–5	Alabama	Alabama won 1
	Arkansas	Arkansas–LSU football rivalry	Golden Boot	69	42–23–2	LSU	LSU won 2
	Auburn	Auburn–LSU football rivalry	None	58	30–24–1	LSU	LSU won 2
	Florida	Florida–LSU football rivalry		70	31–33–3	Florida	LSU won 5
	Mississippi State	LSU–Mississippi State football rivalry		117	75–36–3	LSU	LSU won 3
	Ole Miss	Magnolia Bowl	Magnolia Bowl Trophy	112	63–42–4	LSU	Ole Miss won 1
	Texas A&M	LSU–Texas A&M football rivalry	None	62	32–23–3	LSU	LSU won 1
Mississippi State	Alabama	Alabama–Mississippi State football rivalry		108	18–86–3	Alabama	Alabama won 16
	LSU	LSU–Mississippi State football rivalry		117	36–74–3	LSU	LSU won 3
	Ole Miss	Egg Bowl	Golden Egg	120	46–65–6	Ole Miss	Ole MIss won 1
Missouri	Arkansas	Battle Line Rivalry	Battle Line Trophy	15	10–4	Missouri	Missouri won 2
	Oklahoma	Missouri–Oklahoma football rivalry	Tiger–Sooner Peace Pipe	96	67–24–5	Oklahoma	Oklahoma won 1
	South Carolina	Battle for Columbia	Mayor's Cup	14	9–5	Missouri	Missouri won 5
Oklahoma	Missouri	Missouri–Oklahoma football rivalry	Tiger–Sooner Peace Pipe	96	67–24–5	Oklahoma	Oklahoma won 1
	Texas	Red River Rivalry	Golden Hat	119	51–63–5	Texas	Oklahoma won 1
Ole Miss	Alabama	Alabama–Ole Miss football rivalry	None	71	55–9–2	Alabama	Alabama won 8
	Arkansas	Arkansas–Ole Miss football rivalry		70	30–37–1	Arkansas	Ole Miss won 1
	Auburn	Auburn–Ole Miss football rivalry		48	12–35	Auburn	Ole Miss won 2
	LSU	Magnolia Bowl	Magnolia Bowl Trophy	112	42–63–4	LSU	Ole Miss won 1
	Mississippi State	Egg Bowl	Golden Egg	120	46–65–6	Ole Miss	Ole Miss won 1
	Vanderbilt	Ole Miss–Vanderbilt football rivalry	None	98	54–40–2	Ole Miss	Ole Miss won 5
South Carolina	Georgia	Georgia–South Carolina football rivalry		76	19–55–2	Georgia	Georgia won 4
	Missouri	Battle for Columbia	Mayor's Cup	14	5–9	Missouri	Missouri won 5
	Tennessee	South Carolina–Tennessee football rivalry	None	42	27–11–2	Tennessee	Tennessee won 1
Tennessee	Alabama	Third Saturday in October	None	106	39–59–7	Alabama	Alabama won 1
	Auburn	Auburn–Tennessee football rivalry		54	22–29–3	Auburn	Auburn won 1
	Florida	Florida–Tennessee football rivalry		53	21–32	Florida	Florida won 1
	Georgia	Georgia–Tennessee football rivalry		53	23–28–2	Georgia	Georgia won 7
	Kentucky	Kentucky–Tennessee football rivalry	Beer Barrel	119	82–26–9	Tennessee	Tennessee won 3
	South Carolina	South Carolina–Tennessee football rivalry	None	41	27–11–2	Tennessee	Tennessee won 1
	Vanderbilt	Tennessee–Vanderbilt football rivalry		118	78–33–5	Tennessee	Tennessee won 5
Texas	Arkansas	Arkansas–Texas football rivalry		79	56–23	Texas	Arkansas won 2
	Oklahoma	Red River Rivalry	Golden Hat	119	63–51–5	Texas	Oklahoma won 1
	Texas A&M	Texas–Texas A&M football rivalry	None	118	76–37–5	Texas	Texas won 1
Texas A&M	Arkansas	Arkansas–Texas A&M football rivalry	Southwest Classic Trophy	80	35–42–3	Arkansas	Texas A&M won 2
	LSU	LSU–Texas A&M football rivalry	None	62	23–32–3	LSU	LSU won 1
	Texas	Texas–Texas A&M football rivalry		118	76–37–5	Texas	Texas won 1
Vanderbilt	Georgia	Georgia–Vanderbilt football rivalry		83	20–61–2	Georgia	Georgia won 6
	Kentucky	Kentucky–Vanderbilt football rivalry		96	43–49–4	Kentucky	Kentucky won 1
	Ole Miss	Ole Miss–Vanderbilt football rivalry		98	40–54–2	Ole Miss	Ole Miss won 5
	Tennessee	Tennessee–Vanderbilt football rivalry		118	33–78–5	Tennessee	Tennessee won 5

Teams		Rivalry name	Trophy	Meetings	Record	Series leader	Existing streak	Opposing conference
Alabama	Clemson	Alabama–Clemson football rivalry	None	19	14–5	Alabama	Alabama lost 1	ACC
	Georgia Tech	Alabama–Georgia Tech football rivalry		52	28–21–3	Alabama	Alabama lost 1
	Penn State	Alabama–Penn State football rivalry		15	10–5	Alabama	Alabama won 2	Big Ten
Arkansas	Texas Tech	Arkansas–Texas Tech football rivalry		37	29–8	Arkansas	Arkansas lost 1	Big 12
Auburn	Clemson	Auburn–Clemson football rivalry		51	34–15–2	Auburn	Auburn lost 4	ACC
	Georgia Tech	Auburn–Georgia Tech football rivalry		92	47–41–4	Auburn	Auburn lost 2
	Tulane	Auburn–Tulane football rivalry		38	15–17–6	Tulane	Auburn won 2	AAC
Florida	Florida State	Sunshine Showdown	Makala Trophy, Florida Cup	67	37–28–2	Florida	Florida lost 2	ACC
	Miami (FL)	Florida–Miami football rivalry	Florida Cup	56	27–29	Miami (FL)	Florida won 1
Georgia	Clemson	Clemson–Georgia football rivalry	None	65	73–18–4	Georgia	Georgia won 2
	Georgia Tech	Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate	The Governor's Cup	116	70–41–5	Georgia	Georgia won 5
Kentucky	Centre	Centre–Kentucky rivalry	None	35	12–21–2	Centre	Kentucky won 3	SAA (D-III)
	Indiana	Indiana–Kentucky football rivalry		36	17–18–1	Indiana	Kentucky lost 1	Big Ten
	Louisville	Governor's Cup	The Governor's Cup	35	20–15	Kentucky	Kentucky won 5	ACC
	Transylvania	Battle On Broadway	None	19	12–6–1	Kentucky	Kentucky lost 1	Program defunct since 1941
LSU	Tulane	Battle for the Rag	Tiger Rag/Victory Rag	98	69–22–7	LSU	LSU won 18	AAC
Missouri	Illinois	Arch Rivalry	None	24	17–7	Missouri	Missouri won 6	Big Ten
	Iowa State	Iowa State–Missouri football rivalry	Telephone Trophy	104	61–34–9	Missouri	Missouri won 5	Big 12
	Kansas	Border War	Indian War Drum	121	57–54–9	Missouri	Missouri won 3
	Nebraska	Missouri–Nebraska football rivalry	Victory Bell	104	36–65–3	Nebraska	Missouri lost 2	Big Ten
Oklahoma	Nebraska	Nebraska–Oklahoma football rivalry	None	88	47–38–3	Oklahoma	Oklahoma won 3
	Oklahoma State	Bedlam Series	Bedlam Bell	118	91–20–7	Oklahoma	Oklahoma lost 1	Big 12
Ole Miss	Memphis	Mid-South Rivalry	None	63	47–12–2	Ole Miss	Ole Miss lost 1	AAC
	Tulane	Ole Miss–Tulane football rivalry		73	43–28	Ole Miss	Ole Miss won 13
South Carolina	Clemson	Palmetto Bowl	Palmetto Trophy	120	43–73–4	Clemson	South Carolina lost 1	ACC
	North Carolina	North Carolina–South Carolina football rivalry	None	60	20–36–4	North Carolina	South Carolina lost 1
Tennessee	Georgia Tech	Georgia Tech–Tennessee football rivalry		44	25–17–2	Tennessee	Tennessee won 2
Texas	Rice	Rice–Texas football rivalry		97	75–21–1	Texas	Texas won 16	AAC
	TCU	TCU–Texas football rivalry		94	65–28–1	Texas	Texas won 1	Big 12
	Texas Tech	Texas–Texas Tech football rivalry	Chancellor's Spurs	73	55–18	Texas	Texas won 1
Texas A&M	Baylor	Battle of the Brazos	None	108	68–31–9	Texas A&M	Texas A&M won 3
	TCU	TCU–Texas A&M football rivalry		92	56–29–7	Texas A&M	Texas A&M won 24
	Texas Tech	Texas A&M–Texas Tech football rivalry		70	37–32–1	Texas A&M	Texas A&M won 3
Vanderbilt	Georgia Tech	Georgia Tech–Vanderbilt football rivalry	Gold Cowbell	38	15–20–3	Georgia Tech	Vanderbilt lost 6	ACC
	Sewanee	Sewanee–Vanderbilt football rivalry	None	52	40–8–4	Vanderbilt	Vanderbilt won 1	SAA (D-III)

For the most recent season, see 2024–25 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season.

Since the 2012–13 season, SEC teams have played an 18-game conference schedule, which includes two games (home and away) against each of three permanent rivals and single games against the remaining ten teams in the conference. Men's basketball formerly used the East/West divisional alignment for regular-season scheduling and seeding the conference tournament, but it no longer does.

Before expansion to 14 teams, the conference schedule was 16 games. Although the divisions were eliminated beginning with the 2011–12 season, that season's schedule was still set according to the divisional alignments, with each team facing each team from its own division twice and each team from the opposite division once. As part of the proposal by SEC head coaches that led to the scrapping of the divisional structure, a task force of four coaches and four athletic directors was set to discuss future conference scheduling. At that time, options included a revamped 16-game schedule, an 18-game schedule, or a full double round-robin of 22 conference games.^[112] However, these discussions came before Texas A&M and Missouri were announced in late 2011 as incoming members for the 2012–13 season, which required a format that could support 14 teams rather than twelve.

At the 2012 SEC spring meetings, league athletic directors adopted an 18-game conference schedule. Each school had one permanent opponent that it played home and away every season, and faced four other opponents in a home-and-home series during a given season, and then the remaining teams one each (four home, four away). The permanent opponents were Alabama–Auburn, Arkansas–Missouri, Florida–Kentucky, Georgia–South Carolina, LSU–Texas A&M, Ole Miss–Mississippi State, and Tennessee–Vanderbilt. The home-and-home opponents, apart from the permanent opponent, rotated each season.^[113]

The 2014 SEC spring meetings saw a further change to the scheduling format. While the athletic directors voted to stay with an 18-game conference schedule, they increased the number of permanent opponents for each school from one to three. Each school retained its permanent opponent from the 2012–2014 period while adding two others.^[114]

From 1966 to 1967, following Tulane's departure, through 1990–91, the year prior to the addition of Arkansas and South Carolina, teams played a double round-robin, 18-game conference schedule. No team was undefeated in this period, though three teams went 17–1 (Kentucky in 1970 and 1986, LSU in 1981). During the period from 1992 to 2012 when the league slate was 16 games, Kentucky went undefeated in SEC play in 1996, 2003, and 2012 (although only the 2003 team went on to win the conference tournament).

Since the return to an 18-game conference schedule following the 2012 conference expansion, two teams have gone undefeated in SEC play: Florida in 2013–14 and Kentucky in 2014–15.

The scheduling format will change again with the arrival of Oklahoma and Texas in 2024. The conference schedule will remain at 18 games, but each team will play three opponents home and away—two permanent and one rotating. The remaining 12 games will be single games against all other conference members, evenly divided between home and away games.^[7]

The table below lists each school's permanent men's basketball-only scheduling partners from 2014–15 through 2023–24.

School	Partner 1	Partner 2	Partner 3
Alabama	Auburn	LSU	Mississippi State
Arkansas	LSU	Missouri	Texas A&M
Auburn	Alabama	Georgia	Ole Miss
Florida	Georgia	Kentucky	Vanderbilt
Georgia	Auburn	Florida	South Carolina
Kentucky	Florida	Tennessee	Vanderbilt
LSU	Alabama	Arkansas	Texas A&M
Ole Miss	Mississippi State	Auburn	Missouri
Mississippi State	Alabama	Ole Miss	South Carolina
Missouri	Arkansas	Ole Miss	Texas A&M
South Carolina	Georgia	Mississippi State	Tennessee
Tennessee	Kentucky	South Carolina	Vanderbilt
Texas A&M	Arkansas	LSU	Missouri
Vanderbilt	Kentucky	Tennessee	Florida

The SEC men's basketball tournament (also known simply as the SEC tournament) is the competition that determines the SEC's automatic bid to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Notably, it does not determine the SEC conference champion in men's basketball—the conference has awarded its championship to the team(s) with the best regular-season record since the 1950–51 season.^[115] It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.

With the expansion to 14 members in 2012, the 2013 tournament was the first with a new format covering five days. The teams seeded eleven through fourteen play on the first day, with the winners advancing to play the No. 5 and No. 6 seeds on Thursday. The top four teams receive a "double bye" and do not play until the quarterfinals on Friday. The expansion to 16 teams in 2024 will result in two additional tournament games, but the top four teams will continue to receive "double byes" into the quarterfinals.^[7]

As of the 2022–23 season, the tournament has most often been held at two venues that have each hosted twelve times. Louisville Gardens in Louisville, Kentucky, served as the regular host from 1941 until the tournament was discontinued after the 1952 edition. The Georgia Dome in Atlanta first hosted the tournament in 1995 and most recently hosted in 2014. Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, is now the regular host, with that venue hosting the tournament from 2015 through 2030, except in 2018 and 2022 (years in which it instead hosted the SEC women's basketball tournament).^[116] Sometimes, the tournament will take place at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, or Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. The 2018 tournament was held at Scottrade Center, now Enterprise Center, in St. Louis, Missouri, and the 2022 tournament was at Amalie Arena.^[117]

Prior to moving to the Georgia Dome, the tournament (during its modern, post-1979 era) was most often contested at the venue now known as Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama, home of the SEC's headquarters and centrally located prior to the addition of Arkansas and South Carolina. Other sites to host include on-campus arenas at LSU, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt; Rupp Arena in Lexington; and the Orlando Arena.

† denotes overtime games. Multiple †'s indicate more than one overtime.

Year	Champion		Runner-up		Venue and city
1948	Kentucky	58	Baylor	42	Madison Square Garden	New York
1949	Kentucky (2)	46	Oklahoma A&M	36	Hec Edmundson Pavilion	Seattle
1951	Kentucky (3)	68	Kansas State	58	Williams Arena	Minneapolis
1958	Kentucky (4)	84	Seattle	72	Freedom Hall	Louisville, Kentucky
1966	Texas Western	72	Kentucky	65	Cole Field House	College Park, Maryland
1975	UCLA (10)	92	Kentucky	85	San Diego Sports Arena	San Diego
1978	Kentucky (5)	94	Duke	88	The Checkerdome	St. Louis
1994	Arkansas	76	Duke	72	Charlotte Coliseum	Charlotte, North Carolina
1995	UCLA (11)	89	Arkansas	78	Kingdome	Seattle
1996	Kentucky (6)	76	Syracuse	67	Continental Airlines Arena	East Rutherford, New Jersey
1997†	Arizona	84	Kentucky	79	RCA Dome	Indianapolis
1998	Kentucky (7)	78	Utah	69	Alamodome	San Antonio
2000	Michigan State (2)	89	Florida	76	RCA Dome	Indianapolis
2006	Florida	73	UCLA	57	RCA Dome	Indianapolis
2007	Florida (2)	84	Ohio State	75	Georgia Dome	Atlanta
2012	Kentucky (8)	67	Kansas	59	Mercedes-Benz Superdome	New Orleans
2014	UConn	60	Kentucky	54	AT&T Stadium	Arlington, Texas

The SEC Men's Basketball Player of the Year is awarded to the player who has proven himself, throughout the season, to be the most exceptional talent in the Southeastern Conference. Various other awards, such as the best tournament player in the SEC tournament and all conference honors are given out throughout the year.

Schools play a 30-game league schedule (10 three-game series). Since 1996, schools have played all five schools within their division and five schools from the opposite division. Before the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M in advance of the 2013 season, schools missed only one opponent from the opposite division in a given season; each school now misses three opponents from the opposite division.

Since 1990, the SEC has become the most successful conference on the college baseball diamond. That year, Georgia captured the conference's first national championship at the Men's College World Series (MCWS). Following that, LSU won six of the next 19 titles, including five of ten between 1991 and 2000 and its sixth title in 2009. This was followed by South Carolina winning back-to-back titles in 2010 and 2011, Vanderbilt winning its first title in 2014, Florida winning its first title in 2017, Vanderbilt winning again in 2019, Mississippi State claiming its first title in 2021, Ole Miss winning its first title in 2022, LSU winning again in 2023, and Tennessee winning its first title in 2024. During that same span, 13 teams have also been runners-up at the MCWS. The MCWS final series featured two SEC teams in 1997, 2011, 2017, 2021, 2023, and 2024, and the 2022 final involved a current member and a future member.^[a] The 2022 MCWS featured four current members, all from the SEC West, and both future members. Every current member has appeared at least 5 times except Kentucky, which made its first MCWS appearance in 2024. The only pre-2024 SEC member that has not appeared in the MCWS as an SEC member is Missouri, which has yet to make the NCAA tournament as an SEC member, although it made six MCWS appearances in the 1950s and 1960s while in the Big Eight Conference. Both Georgia Tech and Tulane have made appearances in the MCWS after leaving the SEC. One of the two newest SEC members, Texas, leads all schools in MCWS appearances with 38, and its 6 titles trail only USC (12 titles) and LSU (7). The other new member, Oklahoma, has two titles from 11 MCWS appearances.

SEC teams have also become leaders in total and average attendance over the years. In 2022, the top seven programs in average home attendance and the top eight programs in total home attendance were all SEC members, with the exception of Texas. The only SEC members to place outside the top 30 in both measures of attendance were Kentucky and Missouri, with the latter being the only one outside the top 50.^[118]

The NCAA automatic berth is given to the winner of the SEC Baseball Tournament, which was first started in 1977. It is a double-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. Since 1998, the tournament has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama and contested under the format used at the MCWS from 1988 through 2002, with two four-team brackets leading to a single championship game. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

SEC presidents and athletic directors voted to expand the SEC Tournament to ten teams starting in 2012. The division winners received a bye on the first day of competition, and the tournament became single-elimination after the field is pared to four teams.

With the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M for the 2013 baseball season, the tournament was expanded to 12 teams. The top four seeds receive a bye on the first day, with seeds 5–12 playing single elimination. The tournament is double-elimination for the next three days, then reverts to single elimination when four teams are remaining.

The arrival of Oklahoma and Texas in 2024–25 will result in further changes to the conference schedule. The SEC schedule remains at 30 games, but the divisional alignment was scrapped. Each team plays 10 three-game series—two against permanent opponents, and eight against rotating opponents. The future format for the baseball tournament has yet to be determined.^[7]

In addition to the winner of the SEC Baseball Tournament, the Southeastern Conference usually gets several at-large bids to the NCAA tournament. Many teams have qualified for the NCAA tournament despite failing to win a game in the SEC Tournament. Two of these reached the MCWS despite going 0–2 in the SEC Tournament — Mississippi State in 2007 and Texas A&M in 2024, with Texas A&M reaching the MCWS championship series.

Note: Teams in bold are current SEC members who advanced to the MCWS while in the conference. Teams in bold italics are current SEC members who were either in another conference or an independent at the time of their appearance.

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score(s)	Venue
1949	Texas	Wake Forest	10–3	Lawrence–Dumont Stadium	Wichita, Kansas
1950	Texas (2)	Washington State	3–0	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1951	Oklahoma	Tennessee	3–2	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1952	Holy Cross	Missouri	8–4	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1953	Michigan	Texas	12–5	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1954	Missouri	Rollins	4–1	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1958	Southern California (2)	Missouri	8–7	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1964	Minnesota	Missouri	5–1	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1975	Texas (3)	South Carolina	2–1	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1977	Arizona State (4)	South Carolina	2–1	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1979	Cal State Fullerton	Arkansas	2–1	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1983	Texas (4)	Alabama	4–3	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1984	Cal State Fullerton	Texas	3–1	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1985	Miami (FL)	Texas	10–6	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1989	Wichita State	Texas	5–3	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1990	Georgia	Oklahoma State	2–1	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1991	LSU	Wichita State	6–3	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1993	LSU (2)	Wichita State	8–0	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1994	Oklahoma (2)	Georgia Tech	13–5	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1996	LSU (3)	Miami (FL)	9–8	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
1997	LSU (4)	Alabama	13–6	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
2000	LSU (5)	Stanford	6–5	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
2002	Texas (5)	South Carolina	12–6	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
2005	Texas (6)	Florida	4–2, 6–2	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
2004	Cal State Fullerton	Texas	6–4, 3–2	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
2008	Fresno State	Georgia	6–7, 19–10, 6–1	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
2009	LSU (6)	Texas	7–6, 1–5, 11–4	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
2010	South Carolina	UCLA	7–1, 2–1 (11)	Rosenblatt Stadium	Omaha, Nebraska
2011	South Carolina (2)	Florida	2–1 (11), 5–2	TD Ameritrade Park Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
2012	Arizona (4)	South Carolina	5–1, 4–1	TD Ameritrade Park Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
2013	UCLA	Mississippi State	3–1, 8–0	TD Ameritrade Park Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
2014	Vanderbilt	Virginia	9–8, 2–7, 3–2	TD Ameritrade Park Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
2015	Virginia	Vanderbilt	1–5, 3–0, 4–2	TD Ameritrade Park Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
2017	Florida	LSU	4–3, 6–1	TD Ameritrade Park Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
2018	Oregon State (3)	Arkansas	1–4, 5–3, 5–0	TD Ameritrade Park Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
2019	Vanderbilt (2)	Michigan	4–7, 4–1, 8–2	TD Ameritrade Park Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
2021	Mississippi State	Vanderbilt	2–8, 13–2, 9–0	TD Ameritrade Park Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
2022	Ole Miss	Oklahoma	10–3, 4–2	Charles Schwab Field Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
2023	LSU (7)	Florida	4–3 (11), 4–24, 18–4	Charles Schwab Field Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
2024	Tennessee	Texas A&M	5–9, 4–1, 6–5	Charles Schwab Field Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska

School	Appearances	Most recent	Highest finish
Texas	38	2022	1st (6×)
LSU	19	2023	1st (7×)
Florida	14	2024	1st
Mississippi State	12	2021	1st
Arkansas	11	2022	2nd (2×)
Oklahoma	11	2022	1st (2×)
South Carolina	11	2012	1st (2×)
Texas A&M	8	2024	2nd
Tennessee	7	2024	1st
Auburn	6	2022	4th
Georgia	6	2008	1st
Missouri	6	1964	1st
Ole Miss	6	2022	1st
Alabama	5	1999	2nd (2×)
Vanderbilt	5	2021	1st (2×)
Kentucky	1	2024	6th

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Several baseball rivalries have developed in the SEC:

• LSU–Tulane

Historically these schools were arch-rivals in all sports, but following Tulane's decades-long de-emphasis of sports, including its exit from the SEC in 1966, baseball is the only sport in which the two schools are relatively evenly matched. On several occasions match-ups between the two have drawn national record-setting attendances. Tulane reached its first College World Series in 2001 by defeating LSU in three games in the NCAA Super Regional. In 2002, the Tigers and Green Wave drew an NCAA regular season record crowd of 27,673 to the Louisiana Superdome.

• LSU–Mississippi State

Before the arrival of Skip Bertman as LSU's baseball coach in 1984, Mississippi State had long dominated the conference in baseball, with most of that success coming under coach Ron Polk, who returned to coach the Bulldogs in 2002 after retiring in 1997. When Bertman arrived in Baton Rouge, LSU's long-dormant program took off, winning eleven SEC championships and five College World Series championships between 1984 and 2001.

• South Carolina–Clemson

This instate rivalry is an intense local affair, with the Gamecocks and Tigers meeting each regular season, and has gained national prominence as both teams are often ranked in the top ten nationally. The highlights of the rivalry include the 2002 and 2010 meetings in the final four of the College World Series. Each time, South Carolina emerged from the losers bracket to beat Clemson twice and advance to the national championship series.

• South Carolina–North Carolina

The Gamecocks and Tar Heels met five times in the NCAA tournament between 2002 and 2013, including the 2002 NCAA Regional, 2003 NCAA Super Regional, 2004 NCAA Regional and 2013 NCAA Regional, with the Gamecocks holding a 3–2 edge.

The SEC has historically been a strong conference in women's basketball.^[119] Since the 2009–10 season, teams have played a 16-game conference schedule with a single league table; prior to that time the conference schedule was 14 games, again in a single table.^[120] Like SEC men's basketball, women's basketball used the divisional alignment for scheduling purposes through the 2011–12 season; however, the women's scheduling format was significantly different from the men's. Each team played home-and-home games against five schools—one permanent opponent, two teams from the same division, and two teams from the opposite division; the non-permanent home-and-home opponents rotated every two years.^[121] The remaining games were single games against the six other schools in the conference, with three at home and three away.

The league voted to keep a 16-game league schedule even after the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M. Arkansas and LSU are no longer permanent opponents, with the Razorbacks picking up Missouri and the Lady Tigers picking up Texas A&M. The other permanent opponents are the same as men's basketball, except for Florida-Georgia and Kentucky-South Carolina (both pairs had been permanent women's basketball opponents before the 2012 expansion). Each school plays two others home-and-home during a given season and the other ten once each. The divisional alignments no longer play any role in scheduling.^[122]

The conference schedule will remain at 16 games after the 2024 arrival of Oklahoma and Texas. Each team will play home and away against one permanent opponent, with single games against all other teams, evenly divided between home and away games.^[7]

SEC women's basketball was historically dominated by Tennessee, who won regular-season and/or conference tournament championships in 25 seasons through 2015, as well as eight national championships since 1987. In more recent times, the dominant team has been South Carolina, winning eight regular-season and eight tournament titles since 2014, as well as national titles in 2017, 2022 and 2024. In the 28 seasons the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament has been held, SEC schools have reached the Final Four 32 times, more than twice as often as any other conference.^[123]

The SEC women's basketball tournament is currently held a week before the men's basketball tournament. Like the men's version, it is a single-elimination tournament involving all conference members, with seeding based on regular season records. With the expansion to 14 schools, the bottom four teams in the conference standings play opening-round games, and the top four receive "double byes" into the quarterfinals. The winner earns the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA women's basketball tournament. Also paralleling the men's tournament, the women's tournament does not determine the SEC champion; that honor has been awarded based on regular-season record since the 1985–86 season.^[124] The expansion to 16 teams will result in the addition of two extra games, but the top four teams in the conference standings will continue to receive "double byes" into the quarterfinals.^[7]

The tournament, inaugurated in 1980, was originally held on campus sites; the first tournament to take place at a neutral site was in 1987. The three most frequent sites for the tournament have been McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tennessee (seven times), the Albany Civic Center in Albany, Georgia (six times), and Bridgestone Arena in Nashville (six times). However, the only one of these venues to have hosted the tournament in the 21st century is Bridgestone Arena. Because demand for women's tournament tickets is generally lower than for the men's tournament, it is typically played in a smaller venue than the men's tournament in the same season. The most frequent venues since 2000 have been Bridgestone Arena, Gas South Arena at Duluth, Georgia (four), and Simmons Bank Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas (four).

† denotes overtime games. Multiple †'s indicate more than one overtime.

Teams in bold represented the SEC at the time of their championship appearance. Teams in bold italics made their appearances before joining the SEC.

Year	Champion		Runner-up		Venue and city
1984	USC (2)	72	Tennessee	61	Pauley Pavilion	Los Angeles
1985	Old Dominion	70	Georgia	65	Frank Erwin Center	Austin, Texas
1986	Texas	97	USC	81	Rupp Arena	Lexington, Kentucky
1987	Tennessee	67	Louisiana Tech	44	Frank Erwin Center	Austin, Texas
1988	Louisiana Tech (2)	56	Auburn	54	Tacoma Dome	Tacoma, Washington
1989	Tennessee (2)	76	Auburn	70	Tacoma Dome	Tacoma, Washington
1990	Stanford	88	Auburn	81	Thompson–Boling Arena	Knoxville, Tennessee
1991†	Tennessee (3)	70	Virginia	67	Lakefront Arena	New Orleans
1995	Connecticut	70	Tennessee	64	Target Center	Minneapolis
1996	Tennessee (4)	83	Georgia	65	Charlotte Coliseum	Charlotte, North Carolina
1997	Tennessee (5)	68	Old Dominion	59	Riverfront Coliseum	Cincinnati
1998	Tennessee (6)	93	Louisiana Tech	75	Kemper Arena	Kansas City, Missouri
2000	Connecticut (2)	71	Tennessee	52	First Union Center	Philadelphia
2003	Connecticut (4)	73	Tennessee	68	Georgia Dome	Atlanta
2004	Connecticut (5)	70	Tennessee	61	New Orleans Arena	New Orleans
2007	Tennessee (7)	59	Rutgers	46	Quicken Loans Arena	Cleveland
2008	Tennessee (8)	64	Stanford	48	St. Pete Times Forum	Tampa, Florida
2011	Texas A&M	76	Notre Dame	70	Conseco Fieldhouse	Indianapolis
2017	South Carolina	67	Mississippi State	55	American Airlines Center	Dallas
2018	Notre Dame	61	Mississippi State	58	Nationwide Arena	Columbus, Ohio
2022	South Carolina (2)	64	UConn	49	Target Center	Minneapolis
2023	LSU	102	Iowa	85	American Airlines Center	Dallas
2024	South Carolina (3)	87	Iowa	75	Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse	Cleveland

• Tennessee–UConn

The Lady Vols have historically been one of the nation's dominant programs in that sport. Starting in the mid-1990s, UConn has emerged as Tennessee's main rival for national prominence. The Huskies won four national titles between 2000 and 2004; in three of those years, their opponent in the NCAA final was Tennessee. Connecticut also defeated Tennessee in the 1995 Championship game, the Huskies' first-ever title. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame brokered a deal that saw the teams renew their rivalry with a home-and-home series in 2020 and 2021, and both schools extended the series through 2023.

Besides football, basketball, and baseball, there are a number of other sports in which the Southeastern Conference actively competes.

• Alabama–Georgia, women's gymnastics^{[citation needed]}

These two storied programs have often butted heads for not only SEC titles, but NCAA titles as well. Georgia has won ten national championships to Alabama's six. For decades the rivalry was dominated by two long-standing coaches, Suzanne Yoculan at Georgia and Sarah Patterson at Alabama. Yoculan and Patterson have since retired, bringing their personal rivalry to an end.

• Alabama–Florida, women's softball^{[citation needed]}

These two nationally acclaimed softball programs have proven to be the elite of the SEC and the nation. While consistently being ranked in the nation's Top Ten, both teams find their way to the SEC Tournament Finals and often clash once more in the Women's College Softball World Series.

• Tennessee–LSU, women's softball
• Auburn–Texas, men's swimming and diving^{[citation needed]}

One of the youngest rivalries featuring an SEC team, the Tigers and Texas Longhorns are the two most successful swimming and diving programs in the country. The two have combined for 17 NCAA National Titles since 1981 (nine for Texas, eight for Auburn) and between 1999 and 2007 won every national title awarded. The two regularly face off in a meet during the regular season, Auburn's men own a 12–9 record over the Longhorns. The women just recently began an annual series, with the Tigers winning the series so far 3–1. Texas was the only team to beat the Auburn men between 2001 and 2007.^[125]

Since the SEC's founding in December 1932, the varsity athletic teams of its current 14 members have won 261 (38 in addition are current SEC teams that weren't SEC teams when they won a national championship) national team sports championships.

The following is the list of the national team championships claimed by current SEC member schools, including those tournament championships currently or formerly sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).^[126][127] The NCAA has never sponsored a tournament championship for major college football, the championship game for which is currently part of the College Football Playoff (CFP) system. Prior to 1992, championships for major college football were determined by a "consensus" of major polling services, including the Associated Press and United Press International college football polls. Recognized women's championships from 1972 to 1982 were administered by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), not the NCAA. There was a one-year overlap period during the 1981–82 school year, when both the AIAW and the NCAA operated women's championship tournaments; since 1982, only the NCAA has sponsored women's championship tournaments. National equestrian tournament championships are currently sponsored by the National Collegiate Equestrian Association (NCEA), not the NCAA. Those national championships dating from before 1933 predate the founding of the SEC in December 1932; championships won by Arkansas and South Carolina before the 1992–93 school year predate their membership in the SEC; championships won by Missouri and Texas A&M before the 2012–13 school year predate their membership in the SEC; championships won by Oklahoma and Texas before the 2024–25 school year predate their membership in the SEC.

* A championship marked by an asterisk (*) indicates that the institution was not a member of the SEC at the time of the championship.

The fourteen members of the Southeastern Conference claim over 200 national team championships in sports currently or formerly sponsored by conference members. The following totals include national team championships sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from 1906 to present, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) from 1972 to 1982, and, in football, the Bowl Alliance, Bowl Coalition, Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and College Football Playoff (CFP) since 1992, as well as consensus national championships determined by the major football polls prior to 1992.^[128]

• Texas – 66
• LSU – 52
• Arkansas – 50
• Florida – 47
• Oklahoma – 44
• Georgia – 32
• Alabama – 28
• Tennessee – 22
• Auburn – 18
• Texas A&M – 16
• Kentucky – 14
• South Carolina – 6
• Vanderbilt – 5
• Ole Miss – 5
• Missouri – 2
• Mississippi State – 1

The following totals include national team tournament championships sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from 1906 to the present and the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) from 1972 to 1982. The NCAA did not sponsor tournament championships in women's sports before the 1981–82 academic year, and the NCAA has never sponsored a national championship playoff or tournament in major college football. To date, the fourteen members of the SEC have won 216 NCAA and four AIAW championships:^[129]

• Texas – 62
• LSU – 58
• Arkansas – 54
• Florida – 38
• Oklahoma – 37
• Georgia – 29
• Tennessee – 17
• Auburn – 15
• Kentucky – 13
• Texas A&M – 12
• Alabama – 10
• South Carolina – 6
• Vanderbilt – 5
• Missouri – 2
• Ole Miss – 2
• Mississippi State – 1

SEC sports are televised exclusively by the ESPN family of networks, which includes ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, ESPN+, and SEC+.

For football scheduling, the SEC designates start windows (either Noon–1 EST, 3:30–4:30 EST, 3:30–8 EST, or 6–8 EST) before the season begins and schedules start times as the season progresses. ABC serves as the primary broadcaster of SEC football games with three possible broadcast windows available to air games: noon, 3:30 EST, and 7:30 EST. Every week, ABC designates its 3:30 EST window for an SEC game, carrying on the SEC's traditional window from its previous media rights agreement with CBS.^[130] However, unlike with CBS, the marquee game of the week does not necessarily air at 3:30 EST. The marquee game can air in any of the three windows that maximizes exposure, which is usually ABC's Saturday Night Football window at 7:30 EST. There is no limit to the maximum number of SEC games that can be designated for Saturday Night Football. This allows for ABC to air as many SEC doubleheaders, or tripleheaders in some weeks, as they would like throughout the season (compared to a limit of two doubleheaders per season with CBS). ABC broadcasts are presented under the SEC on ABC banner. ABC also broadcasts the SEC Championship Game.^[131]

Remaining football games are assigned to ESPN and its other networks. Each season, one football game and a few men's basketball games for each team are broadcast on ESPN+ and SEC+, the online component of the SEC Network. Most other sports are broadcast on the SEC Network or on SEC+.

All SEC schools broadcast their radio play-by-play through Sirius XM, and the conference carries its own full-time radio network on satellite channel 374, and via Sirius XM Online.

The SEC created the College Football Association in 1977 with other major conferences to negotiate contracts for broadcasting college football games.^[132]

Jefferson Pilot Sports began syndicated television coverage of men's basketball games in 1986 and football games in 1992, which were picked after the CFA allocated games for its national contract.^[133]

In 1994, the SEC became the first conference to leave the CFA when it announced a deal with CBS to televise one game each week. CBS paid about $17 million per season for the right to show the best game of the week. The network was required to televise each team at least once per season. The Conference soon reached a deal with ESPN to broadcast games in primetime.^[132]

In August 2008, the SEC announced an unprecedented 15-year television contract with CBS worth an estimated $55 million a year. This continued the previous deal that made CBS the exclusive over-the-air broadcaster of SEC sports.^[30] In the same month, the league also announced another landmark television contract with ESPN worth $2.25 billion or $150 million a year for fifteen years. The ESPN deal replaced the syndicated contract and ensured that all SEC football games would be televised nationally. The deal also committed ESPN and the conference to the creation of the SEC Network, which was finally created in 2014 and allowed for a significant increase in television coverage of SEC sports. Together, these contracts helped make the SEC one of the most nationally televised and visible conferences in the country.^[134]

In 2020, the SEC announced a new deal that made ESPN the sole televisor of SEC sports starting in 2024. The ten-year contract was reported to be about $300 million per year and will allow ESPN to broadcast the SEC on ABC as well as rights to the SEC Championship Game.^[135]

The SEC Network is a television and multimedia network that features exclusively Southeastern Conference content through a partnership between ESPN and the SEC.^[136] The network launched on August 14, 2014, with the first live football game scheduled for two weeks later between Texas A&M and South Carolina on Thursday, August 28 in Columbia, South Carolina.^[137]

The network is part of a deal between the Southeastern Conference and ESPN which is a 20-year agreement, beginning in August 2014 and running through 2034. The agreement served to create and operate a new multiplatform television network and accompanying digital platform in the hope of increasing revenue for member institutions and expanding the reach of the Southeastern Conference.

The conference has presented athlete of the year awards in men's sports since 1976 and women's sports since 1984.^[138][139] The award was named the Roy F. Kramer Athlete of the Year Award in 2004 after the former commissioner.

List of Roy F. Kramer SEC Athlete of the Year winners

Year	Men's winners	School	Sport	Women's winners	School	Sport
1976	Harvey Glance	Auburn	Track and field	—
1977	Larry Seivers	Tennessee	Football
1978	Jack Givens	Kentucky	Basketball
1979	Reggie King	Alabama	Basketball
1980	Kyle Macy	Kentucky	Basketball
1981	Rowdy Gaines	Auburn	Swimming
1982	Buck Belue	Georgia	Football / baseball
1983	Herschel Walker	Georgia	Football / track and field
1984	Terry Hoage	Georgia	Football	Tracy Caulkins	Florida	Swimming
1985	Will Clark	Mississippi State	Baseball	Penney Hauschild	Alabama	Gymnastics
1986	Bo Jackson	Auburn	Football	Jennifer Gillom	Ole Miss	Basketball
1987	Cornelius Bennett	Alabama	Football	Lillie Leatherwood	Alabama	Track and field
1988	Will Perdue	Vanderbilt	Basketball	Dara Torres	Florida	Swimming
1989	Derrick Thomas	Alabama	Football	Bridgette Gordon	Tennessee	Basketball
1990	Alec Kessler	Georgia	Basketball	Dee Foster	Alabama	Gymnastics
1991	Shaquille O'Neal	LSU	Basketball	Daedra Charles	Tennessee	Basketball
1992	Shaquille O'Neal	LSU	Basketball	Vicki Goetze	Georgia	Golf
1993	Jamal Mashburn	Kentucky	Basketball	Nicole Haislett	Florida	Swimming
1994	Corliss Williamson	Arkansas	Basketball	Nicole Haislett	Florida	Swimming
1995	Todd Helton	Tennessee	Baseball	Jenny Hansen	Kentucky	Gymnastics
1996	Danny Wuerffel	Florida	Football	Saudia Roundtree	Georgia	Basketball
1997	Danny Wuerffel	Florida	Football	Trinity Johnson	South Carolina	Softball
1998	Peyton Manning	Tennessee	Football	Chamique Holdsclaw	Tennessee	Basketball
1999	Tim Couch	Kentucky	Football	Chamique Holdsclaw	Tennessee	Basketball
2000	Kip Bouknight	South Carolina	Baseball	Kristy Kowal	Georgia	Swimming
2001	Matías Boeker	Georgia	Tennis	Amy Yoder Begley	Arkansas	Cross country running
2002	Walter Lewis	LSU	Track and field	Andree' Pickens	Alabama	Gymnastics
2003	Alistair Cragg	Arkansas	Cross country running	LaToya Thomas	Mississippi State	Basketball
2004	Alistair Cragg	Arkansas	Cross country running	Jeana Rice	Alabama	Gymnastics
2005	Ryan Lochte	Florida	Swimming	Kirsty Coventry	Auburn	Swimming
2006	Xavier Carter	LSU	Track and field	Seimone Augustus	LSU	Basketball
2007	David Price	Vanderbilt	Baseball	Monica Abbott	Tennessee	Softball
2008	Tim Tebow	Florida	Football	Candace Parker	Tennessee	Basketball
2009	Tim Tebow	Florida	Football	Courtney Kupets	Georgia	Gymnastics
2010	Mark Ingram II	Alabama	Football	Susan Jackson	LSU	Gymnastics
2011	John-Patrick Smith	Tennessee	Tennis	Kayla Hoffman	Alabama	Gymnastics
2012	Anthony Davis	Kentucky	Basketball	Brooke Pancake	Alabama	Golf
2013	Johnny Manziel	Texas A&M	Football	Allison Schmitt	Georgia	Swimming
2014	A. J. Reed	Kentucky	Baseball	Hannah Rogers	Florida	Softball
2015	Andrew Benintendi	Arkansas	Baseball	Lauren Haeger	Florida	Softball
2016	Jarrion Lawson	Arkansas	Track and field	Bridget Sloan	Florida	Gymnastics
2017	Brent Rooker	Mississippi State	Baseball	Kendell Williams	Georgia	Track and field
2018	Caeleb Dressel	Florida	Swimming	A'ja Wilson	South Carolina	Basketball
2019	Grant Holloway	Florida	Track and field	María Fassi	Arkansas	Golf
2020	Joe Burrow	LSU	Football	Tyasha Harris	South Carolina	Basketball
2021	DeVonta Smith	Alabama	Football	Madison Lilley	Kentucky	Volleyball
2022	Bryce Young	Alabama	Football	Aliyah Boston	South Carolina	Basketball
2023	Dylan Crews	LSU	Baseball	Trinity Thomas	Florida	Gymnastics
2024	Jayden Daniels	LSU	Football	Parker Valby	Florida	Track and field

The NACDA Learfield Sports Directors' Cup is an annual award given by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the U.S. colleges and universities with the most success in collegiate athletics.

Institution	2022– 23	2021– 22	2020– 21	2019– 20	2018– 19	2017– 18	2016– 17	2015– 16	2014– 15	2013– 14	10-yr Average
Alabama Crimson Tide	12	22	7	N/A	31	14	24	36	25	17	21
Arkansas Razorbacks	13	7	8	N/A	23	16	22	23	16	28	17
Auburn Tigers	36	32	50	N/A	37	18	32	35	32	34	34
Florida Gators	5	5	5	N/A	3	3	5	5	4	2	4
Georgia Bulldogs	7	19	10	N/A	21	8	13	15	14	16	14
Kentucky Wildcats	18	9	12	N/A	14	17	11	26	22	11	16
LSU Tigers	9	16	15	N/A	11	27	23	19	15	24	18
Ole Miss Rebels	39	20	22	N/A	56	38	39	49	66	54	43
Mississippi State Bulldogs	57	76	59	N/A	44	42	57	44	52	52	54
Missouri Tigers	50	57	48	N/A	51	33	31	43	42	46	45
Oklahoma Sooners	23	10	24	N/A	33	25	16	16	21	19	21
South Carolina Gamecocks	33	37	42	N/A	22	26	19	31	46	35	32
Tennessee Volunteers	6	13	26	N/A	25	35	45	34	38	40	29
Texas Longhorns	2	1	1	N/A	4	5	10	9	9	6	5
Texas A&M Aggies	24	25	19	N/A	15	10	14	12	17	10	16
Vanderbilt Commodores	56	66	56	N/A	45	55	67	58	51	45	55

University	Cup Wins	Top 10 rankings
Texas	2	23
Florida		29
Georgia		12
LSU		7
Texas A&M		6
Tennessee		3
Oklahoma		3
Arkansas		2
Kentucky		2
Alabama		1

The Capital One Cup is an award given annually to the best men's and women's Division I college athletics programs in the United States. Points are earned throughout the year based on final standings of NCAA Championships and final coaches' poll rankings.

Institution	Men's Ranking	Women's Ranking
Alabama	15	9
Arkansas	24	17
Auburn	91	NR
Florida	1	14
Georgia	3	39
Kentucky	29	44
LSU	8	7
Ole Miss	NR	52
Mississippi State	NR	NR
Missouri	68	81
Oklahoma	64	5
South Carolina	68	14
Tennessee	NR	NR
Texas	20	1
Texas A&M	NR	29
Vanderbilt	NR	36

The Southeastern Conference sponsors nine men's sports and 13 women's sports, and awards a conference championship in every one of them.

• List of independent southern basketball champions
• List of NCAA conferences
• List of SEC men's basketball tournament locations
• SEC on CBS
• Southeastern Conference Academic Consortium, located in Fayetteville, Arkansas
• SEC Community Service Team
• Southeastern Collegiate Rugby Conference
• College Hockey South, formerly known as the South Eastern Collegiate Hockey Conference (SECHC) - a non-varsity ice hockey conference featuring many SEC schools

• Official website