Classification	NCAA Division I-A
Established	1932
Members	12
Sports	18 (9 men's, 9 women's)
Region	Southeastern United States
States	Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee
Headquarters	Birmingham, Alabama

The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama which operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I in athletic competitions (I-A in football). The conference is one of the most successful both on the field and financially, averaging more than six national championships per year since 1990 and consistently leading all conferences in revenue distribution to its members including $127.2 million in the 2007-2008 fiscal year. The Southeastern Conference was also the first to hold a championship game for football and was one of the founding members of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). The current commissioner of the Southeastern Conference is Michael Slive.

History of SEC Football

The SEC was established in December 1932, when the 13 members of the Southern Conference located west and south of the Appalachian Mountains left to form their own conference. Ten of the thirteen charter members have remained in the conference since its inception. They are University of Alabama, University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Kentucky, University of Mississippi, University of Tennessee, Auburn University, Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University, and Vanderbilt University. The other charter members were:

• Sewanee: Left the SEC in 1940. The school has since de-emphasized varsity athletics, and is currently a member of the Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.
• Georgia Tech: Left the SEC in 1964. In 1975, it became a founding member of the Metro Conference, (most members joined Conference USA), competing there in all sports except football, in which it was independent. In 1978, Georgia Tech joined the Atlantic Coast Conference for all sports, where it has remained.
• Tulane: Left the SEC in 1966. Along with Georgia Tech, it was a charter member of the Metro Conference. Unlike Tech, however, Tulane remained in the Metro until the Metro Conference merged into the new Conference USA in 1995. Tulane remained an independent in football until the formation of Conference USA.

The SEC expanded from 10 to 12 members in 1991 with the addition of the University of Arkansas from the Southwest Conference and the University of South Carolina from the independent ranks in football and the Metro Conference in other sports. In 1992, the SEC adopted the divisional setup that exists today. Also in 1992, the SEC was the first conference to receive permission from the NCAA to conduct an annual championship game in football, featuring the winners of the conference's eastern and western divisions. It was held at Birmingham's Legion Field the first two years and at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta thereafter.

Current SEC Football Teams

The SEC currently has twelve member institutions in nine Southeastern states. The geographic domain of the conference streches from Arkansas to South Carolina and from Kentucky to Florida. One or both of the flagship universities in each state in the geographic domain of the SEC is a member of the conference, along with one of the preeminent private universities of the Deep South.

The conference is divided into two geographic divisions: the East Division and the West Division. The twelve current members of the Southeastern Conference are:

SEC Football Stadiums, Basketball Arenas, and Baseball Stadiums

College Football Rivalries in the SEC

SEC Football All Time Records versus SEC Football Opponents

Records Through 2007	Alabama	Arkansas	Auburn	LSU	MSU	Ole Miss	Florida	Georgia	Kentucky	South Carolina	Tennessee	Vanderbilt
Alabama Crimson Tide	-	11-7	37-28-1	42-22-5	69-16-3	42-7-2	21-13	35-24-3	33-2-1	11-2	45-37-7	60-18-4
Arkansas Razorbacks	7-11	-	6-10-1	18-32-2	12-5-1	29-24-1	1-6	3-8	2-3	10-6	3-13	5-2
Auburn Tigers	28-37-1	10-6-1	-	17-22-1	52-25-3	24-8	43-38-2	49-48-6	24-5-1	6-1-1	24-21-3	19-16-1
LSU Tigers	22-42-5	32-18-2	22-17-1	-	61-34-3	53-34-4	23-28-3	14-10-1	38-16-1	15-2-1	7-20-3	20-7-1
MSU Bulldogs	16-69-3	5-12-1	25-52-3	34-61-3	-	38-57-5	18-32-2	5-16	16-18	6-7	15-27-1	10-7-2
Ole Miss Rebels	7-42-2	24-29-1	8-24	34-53-4	57-38-5	-	11-10-1	12-30-1	26-13-1	8-5	18-43-1	46-30-2
Florida Gators	13-21	6-1	38-43-2	28-23-3	32-18-2	10-11-1	-	37-47-2	41-17	21-4-3	18-19	30-9-2
Georgia Bulldogs	24-35-3	8-3	48-49-6	10-14-1	16-5	30-12-1	47-37-2	-	48-11-2	40-13-2	15-19-2	47-15-2
Kentucky Wildcats	2-33-1	3-2	5-24-1	16-38-1	18-16	13-26-1	17-41	11-48-2	-	6-12-1	17-66-8	39-31-4
South Carolina Gamecocks	2-11	6-10	1-6-1	2-15-1	7-6	5-8	4-21-3	13-40-2	12-6-1	-	3-21-2	14-3
Tennessee Volunteers	37-45-7	13-3	21-24-3	20-7-3	27-15-1	43-18-1	19-18	19-15-2	66-17-8	21-3-2	-	69-24-4
Vanderbilt Commodores	18-60-4	2-5	16-19-1	7-20-1	7-10-2	30-46-2	9-30-2	15-47-2	31-39-4	3-14	24-69-4	-

 Top Twelve SEC Football Series by Number of SEC Football Games Played

Series	Inaugural Game	Times Played
Georgia vs Auburn	Nov. 27, 1902	103
Ole Miss vs Mississippi State	Oct. 25, 1902	101
Mississippi State vs LSU	Nov. 27, 1902	98
Tennessee vs Vanderbilt	Oct. 25, 1902	97
Kentucky vs Tennessee	Nov. 10, 1906	91
LSU vs Ole Miss	Nov. 8, 1902	91
Alabama vs Tennessee	Nov. 26, 1903	89
Mississippi State vs Alabama	Nov. 8, 1902	88
Georgia vs Florida	Oct. 8, 1904	86
Auburn vs Florida	Oct. 4, 1904	83
Alabama vs Vanderbilt	Oct. 10, 1903	82
Auburn vs Mississippi State	Oct. 27, 1905	81

Football has a rich tradition in the SEC, and its many rivalries among its members have long histories. Some of the rivalries involving SEC teams include:

Each school has a permanent rival from the other division which it plays each year in football (though this may or may not reflect a traditional rivalry). Each East Division school's permanent rival from the West Division:

From 1992 through 2001, 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. 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, while Mississippi State played South Carolina and Kentucky every year) led to the adoption of the "5-1-2" format currently in place.

Other league athletic directors have advocated adopting the format used by the Big 12 Conference, where teams play three teams from the opposite division on a home-and-home basis for two seasons, and then switch and play the other three teams from the opposite side for a two-year home-and-home. However, the potential loss of such heated long-standing rivalries as Alabama-Tennessee and Auburn-Georgia have scuttled such plans on the drawing board.

Interestingly, prior to the institution of divisional play, many of Auburn's yearly rivalries were with teams in the East (Florida, Georgia and Tennessee), while Vanderbilt faced Alabama and Ole Miss every year.

In addition to the permanent inter-division rival, each football team plays all of its five division opponents plus two rotating opponents from the other division, for a total of eight conference games per season.

 SEC Football Champions

SEC Football National Championships: 1934 - Alabama 1941 - Alabama 1942 - Georgia 1946 - Georgia 1950 - Kentucky 1951 - Tennessee 1952 - Georgia Tech 1957 - Auburn 1958 - LSU 1960 - Ole Miss 1961 - Alabama 1962 - Ole Miss 1964 - Arkansas 1965 - Alabama 1973 - Alabama 1978 - Alabama 1979 - Alabama 1980 - Georgia 1992 - Alabama 1996 - Florida 1998 - Tennessee 2003 - LSU 2006 - Florida 2007 - LSU

SEC Football Champions by Year: 1933 Alabama (5-0-1) 1934 Tulane (8-0) & Alabama (7-0) 1935 LSU (5-0) 1936 LSU (6-0) 1937 Alabama (6-0) 1938 Tennessee (7-0) 1939 Tennessee (6-0), Georgia Tech (6-0) & Tulane (5-0) 1940 Tennessee (5-0) 1941 Mississippi State (4-0-1) 1942 Georgia (6-1) 1943 Georgia Tech (3-0) 1944 Georgia Tech (4-0) 1945 Alabama (6-0) 1946 Georgia (5-0) & Tennessee (5-0) 1947 Mississippi (6-1) 1948 Georgia (6-0) 1949 Tulane (5-1) 1950 Kentucky (5-1) 1951 Georgia Tech (7-0) & Tennessee (5-0) 1952 Georgia Tech (6-0) 1953 Alabama (4-0-3) 1954 Mississippi (5-1) 1955 Mississippi (5-1) 1956 Tennessee (6-0) 1957 Auburn (7-0) 1958 LSU (6-0) 1959 Georgia (7-0) 1960 Mississippi (5-0-1) 1961 Alabama (7-0) & LSU (6-0) 1962 Mississippi (6-0) 1963 Mississippi (5-0-1) 1964 Alabama (8-0) 1965 Alabama (6-1-1) 1966 Alabama (6-0) & Georgia (6-0) 1967 Tennessee (6-0) 1968 Georgia (5-0-1) 1969 Tennessee (5-1) 1970 LSU (5-0) 1971 Alabama (7-0) 1972 Alabama (7-1) 1973 Alabama (8-0) 1974 Alabama (6-0) 1975 Alabama (6-0) 1976 Georgia (5-1) & Kentucky (5-1) 1977 Alabama (7-0) & Kentucky (6-0) 1978 Alabama (6-0) 1979 Alabama (6-0) 1980 Georgia (6-0) 1981 Georgia (6-0) & Alabama (6-0) 1982 Georgia (6-0) 1983 Auburn (6-0) 1984 Florida (5-0-1) 1985 Florida (5-1) & Tennessee (5-1) 1986 LSU (5-1) 1987 Auburn (5-0-1) 1988 Auburn (6-1)& LSU (6-1) 1989 Alabama (6-1), Tennessee (6-1) & Auburn (6-1) 1990 Florida (6-1) & Tennessee (5-1-1) 1991 Florida (7-0)

SEC Football Championship Games: 1992 Alabama 28, Florida 21 1993 Florida 28, Alabama 23 1994 Florida 24, Alabama 23 1995 Florida 34, Arkansas 3 1996 Florida 45, Alabama 30 1997 Tennessee 30, Auburn 29 1998 Tennessee 24, Mississippi State 14 1999 Alabama 34, Florida 7 2000 Florida 28, Auburn 6 2001 LSU 31, Tennessee 20 2002 Georgia 30, Arkansas 3 2003 LSU 34, Georgia 13 2004 Auburn 38, Tennessee 28 2005 Georgia 34, LSU 14 2006 Florida 38, Arkansas 28 2007 LSU 21, Tennessee 14

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