Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a collegiate 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, 3 additional public land-grant universities, and 1 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.

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.

Member universities

Current members

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 all West Division schools except Arkansas and Texas A&M, and Auburn in the West Division despite being located farther east than East Division schools Missouri and Vanderbilt. These divisional groupings were applied only in football, men's basketball (prior to 2011–12), baseball, and women's soccer both for scheduling and standings purposes. In football, the winner of each division met in the SEC Championship Game. The SEC eliminated its divisional groupings when Oklahoma and Texas joined in 2024.

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center;"

! Institution

! Location

! Founded

! Type

! Enrollment

! Endowment

! Nickname

! Joined

! class="unsortable" | Colors

! University of Alabama

| Tuscaloosa, Alabama

| 1831

| Public

| 39,622

| $2.379

| Crimson Tide

| 1932

|

! University of Arkansas

| Fayetteville, Arkansas

| 1871

| Public

| 32,140

| $1.666

| Razorbacks

| 1991

|

! Auburn University

| Auburn, Alabama

| 1856

| Public

| 33,015

| $1.187

| Tigers

| 1932

|

! University of Florida

| Gainesville, Florida

| 1853

| Public

| 54,814

| $2.454

| Gators

| 1932

|

! University of Georgia

| Athens, Georgia

| 1785

| Public

| 41,615

| $2.056

| Bulldogs

| 1932

|

! University of Kentucky

| Lexington, Kentucky

| 1865

| Public

| 32,703

| $1.979

| Wildcats

| 1932

! Louisiana State University

| Baton Rouge, Louisiana

| 1860

| Public

| 39,418

| $1.138

| Tigers

| 1932

|

! University of Mississippi

| University, Mississippi

| 1848

| Public

| 24,043

| $0.925

| Rebels

| 1932

! Mississippi State University

| Mississippi State, Mississippi

| 1878

| Public

| 22,657

| $0.895

| Bulldogs

| 1932

! University of Missouri

| Columbia, Missouri

| 1839

| Public

| 31,013

| $2.411

| Tigers

| 2012

! University of Oklahoma

| Norman, Oklahoma

| 1890

| Public

| 29,145

| $2.95

| Sooners

| 2024

! University of South Carolina

| Columbia, South Carolina

| 1801

| Public

| 36,579

| $1.044

| Gamecocks

| 1991

! University of Tennessee

| Knoxville, Tennessee

| 1794

| Public

| 36,304

| $1.766

| Volunteers

| 1932

! University of Texas at Austin

| Austin, Texas

| 1883

| Public

| 53,082

| $47.465

| Longhorns

| 2024

! Texas A&M University

| College Station, Texas

| 1876

| Public

| 76,633

| $20.381

| Aggies

| 2012

! Vanderbilt University

| Nashville, Tennessee

| 1873

| Nonsectarian

| 13,456

| $10.248

| Commodores

| 1932

; Notes

Membership map

Former members

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. 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. The school is currently a member of the Southern Athletic Association (SAA).
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. 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 until 1978, when Georgia Tech joined the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
Tulane left the SEC in 1966. Although the school's athletic squads were competitive in the conference's early days, the private institution's programs struggled to compete against large state universities. This was particularly true in football, where the Green Wave were SEC champions 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 ending its football program to focus on academics. However, the school has remained in Division I and is currently in the American Conference. 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.

Racial integration

thumb|[[Bobby Grier (Pittsburgh Panthers)|Bobby Grier playing against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in 1955]]

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. 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. 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.

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".

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. In August of that same year, Kentucky enrolled Nate Northington and Greg Page on football scholarships, and Vanderbilt enrolled Godfrey Dillard and Perry Wallace on basketball scholarships. 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, and his SEC debut against Ole Miss the following week on September 30 (the day after Page's death

1990 expansion

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. 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. On November 6, 2011, the SEC commissioner announced that the University of Missouri would also join the SEC on July 1, 2012. For football, Texas A&M was scheduled to compete in the Western Division, and Missouri in the Eastern Division. Texas A&M and Missouri both left the Big 12 Conference.

2024 expansion

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." 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. 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.

Membership timeline

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Commissioners

The office of Commissioner was created in 1940.

{| class="wikitable"

! Years

! Commissioners

| 1940–1946

| Martin S. Conner

| 1948–1965

| 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

SEC Academic Network

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.

In 2011, the SEC Academic Consortium relocated from its original home on the campus of the University of Arkansas to the SEC headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama 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. 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. 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."

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.

Academics

The following table shows National University rank by U.S. News & World Report as of 2026.

Also indicated is membership in the Association of American Universities.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"

! style="width:220px;"| Institution

! style="width:150px;"| National University Rank

! style="width:150px;"| AAU Member

| Vanderbilt University

| 17

| University of Florida

| 30

| University of Texas at Austin

| 30

| 46

| Texas A&M University

| 51

| 102

|

| 102

| 126

| 143

| 169

| 183

| 208

CNBC list of the most valuable SEC schools

Rankings as of December 19, 2025 (2024–2025 academic year)

{| class="wikitable sortable"

! SEC || NCAA || School || Valuation || Value Change || Revenue || Revenue Change

| 1 || 1 || Texas Longhorns || $1.48 billion || 16% || $332 million || 23%

| 2 || 3 || Texas A&M Aggies || $1.32 billion || 5% || $266 million || 5%

| 3 || 4 || Georgia Bulldogs || $1.16 billion || 22% || $242 million || 15%

| 4 || 7 || Tennessee Volunteers || $1.12 billion || 19% || $234 million || 16%

| 5 || 9 || Alabama Crimson Tide || $1.09 billion || 11% || $235 million || 18%

| 6 || 12 || LSU Tigers || $1.05 billion || 15% || $220 million || 10%

| 7 || 13 || Oklahoma Sooners || $1.01 billion || 9% || $209 million || 5%

| 8 || 14 || Florida Gators || $975 million || 13% || $200 million || 6%

| 9 || 15 || Kentucky Wildcats || $910 million || 17% || $202 million || 16%

| 10 || 21 || South Carolina Gamecocks || $812 million || 25% || $183 million || 14%

| 11 || 22 || Auburn Tigers || $810 million || 5% || $194 million || 1%

| 12 || 24 || Arkansas Razorbacks || $800 million || 3% || $171 million || 2%

| 13 || 30 || Ole Miss Rebels || $755 million || 16% || $149 million || 5%

| 14 || 31 || Missouri Tigers || $700 million || 19% || $168 million || 18%

| 15 || 35 || Vanderbilt Commodores || $655 million || 19% || $141 million || 13%

| 16 || 38 || Mississippi State Bulldogs || $625 million || 20% || $127 million || 9%

Athletic department revenue by school

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 2023–24 academic year.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"

! style="width:220px;"| Institution

! style="width:150px;"| 2023–24 Total Revenue from Athletics

! style="width:150px;"| 2023–24 Total Expenses on Athletics

| University of Texas at Austin

| $320,312,665

| $237,475,591

| University of Alabama

| $243,096,720

| University of Georgia

| $241,843,474

| $182,882,099

| Texas A&M University

| $231,773,287

| $223,847,369

| Louisiana State University

| $220,281,227

| $218,545,643

| University of Tennessee

| $204,906,178

| University of Kentucky

| $193,967,575

| $193,915,782

| Auburn University

| $193,417,486

| $182,486,390

| University of Oklahoma

| $188,933,196

| $188,623,620

| University of South Carolina

| $183,652,273

| University of Florida

| $180,556,616

| University of Arkansas

| $170,608,754

| $170,011,614

| University of Missouri

| $157,734,870

| University of Mississippi

| $145,401,658

| Vanderbilt University

| $140,707,218

| Mississippi State University

| $125,114,437

The following table shows Southeastern Conference distributions during the fiscal year beginning 09-01-2024 ending 08-31-2025 as reported by ProPublica using Schedule A of the Southeastern Conference tax filing submitted on February 4, 2026.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"

! style="width:220px;"| Institution

! style="width:150px;"| 2024–25 Distribution

| University of Alabama

| $72,792,940

| University of Arkansas

| $73,083,520

| Auburn University

| $70,802,740

| University of Florida

| $72,068,145

| University of Georgia

| $74,458,940

| University of Kentucky

| $70,485,750

| Louisiana State University

| $72,391,720

| University of Mississippi

| $73,076,485

| Mississippi State University

| $70,342,415

| University of Missouri

| $72,855,455

| University of South Carolina

| $72,741,821

| University of Tennessee

| $73,587,225

| Texas A&M University

| $72,899,870

| Vanderbilt University

| $71,492,110

| University of Oklahoma

| $2,575,481

| University of Texas

| $12,113,287

|- class=sortbottom| bgcolor="lightgrey"

| Average for 14 Longterm Members Average for 2 New Members

| $72,362,795 $7,344,384

Key personnel

{| class="wikitable"

! School !! Athletic director !! Football coach !! Men's basketball coach !! Women's basketball coach !! Baseball coach !! Softball coach !! Volleyball coach || Women's soccer coach

|Alabama || Greg Byrne || Kalen DeBoer || Nate Oats || Pauline Love || Rob Vaughn || Patrick Murphy || Rashinda Reed || Wes Hart

|Arkansas || Hunter Yurachek || Ryan Silverfield || John Calipari || Kelsi Musick || Dave Van Horn || Courtney Deifel || Jason Watson || Colby Hale

|Auburn || John Cohen || Alex Golesh || Steven Pearl|| Larry Vickers || Butch Thompson || Chris Malveaux & Kate Malveaux || Brent Crouch || James Armstrong

|Florida || Scott Stricklin || Jon Sumrall || Todd Golden || Tammi Reiss || Kevin O'Sullivan || Tim Walton || Ryan Thies || Nick Zimmerman

|Georgia || Josh Brooks || Kirby Smart || Mike White || Ayla Guzzardo|| Wes Johnson || Tony Baldwin || Tom Black || Keidane McAlpine

|Kentucky || Mitch Barnhart || Will Stein || Mark Pope|| Kenny Brooks || Nick Mingione || Rachel Lawson || Craig Skinner || Troy Fabiano

|LSU || Verge Ausberry || Lane Kiffin || Will Wade|| Kim Mulkey || Jay Johnson || Beth Torina || Tonya Johnson || Sian Hudson

|Ole Miss || Keith Carter || Pete Golding || Chris Beard || Yolett McPhee-McCuin || Mike Bianco|| Jamie Trachsel || Bre Henry || Todd Shulenberger

|Mississippi State || |Zac Selmon || Jeff Lebby || Chris Jans|| Sam Purcell || Brian O'Connor || Samantha Ricketts || Julie Darty || Kevin O'Brien

|Missouri || Laird Veatch || Eliah Drinkwitz || Dennis Gates||Kellie Harper

| Kerrick Jackson || Larissa Anderson || Dawn Sullivan || Stefanie Golan

| Oklahoma || Roger Denny || Brent Venables || Porter Moser || Jennie Baranczyk || Skip Johnson || Patty Gasso || Aaron Mansfield || Matt Mott

|South Carolina || Jeremiah Donati || Shane Beamer || Lamont Paris|| Dawn Staley || Monte Lee|| Ashley Chastain|| Tom Mendoza || Shelley Smith

|Tennessee || Danny White || Josh Heupel|| Rick Barnes || Kim Caldwell || Josh Elander || Karen Weekly || Eve Rackham || Joe Kirt

| Texas || Chris Del Conte || Steve Sarkisian || Sean Miller || Vic Schaefer || Jim Schlossnagle|| Mike White || Jerritt Elliott || Margueritte Bates

| Texas A&M || Trev Alberts|| Mike Elko|| Bucky McMillan || Joni Taylor || Michael Earley || Trisha Ford|| Jamie Morrison || Bobby Shuttleworth

|Vanderbilt || Candice Storey Lee || Clark Lea|| Mark Byington || Shea Ralph || Tim Corbin || No team || Anders Nelson || Darren Ambrose

Facilities

{| class="wikitable sortable"

| style="text-align:center; "| Alabama Crimson Tide|

| Saban Field at Bryant-Denny Stadium

| style="text-align:center;"| 100,077

| Coleman Coliseum

| style="text-align:center;"| 76,212

| Bud Walton Arena

| style="text-align:center;"| 88,043

| Neville Arena

| style="text-align:center;"| 9,121

| Plainsman Park

| style="text-align:center;"| 6,300

| style="text-align:center; "| Florida Gators|

| Ben Hill Griffin Stadium

| style="text-align:center;"| 88,548

| O'Connell Center

| style="text-align:center;"| 7,000

| style="text-align:center; "| Georgia Bulldogs|

| Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium

| style="text-align:center;"| 93,033

| Stegeman Coliseum

| style="text-align:center;"| 10,523

| Foley Field

| style="text-align:center;"| 3,633

| style="text-align:center; "|

| Kroger Field

| style="text-align:center;"| 61,000

| Rupp Arena Memorial Coliseum

| style="text-align:center;"| 20,545 6,250

| Kentucky Proud Park

| style="text-align:center;"| 5,000

| style="text-align:center; "|

| Tiger Stadium

| style="text-align:center;"| 102,321

| Pete Maravich Assembly Center

| style="text-align:center;"| 13,215

| Alex Box Stadium

| style="text-align:center;"| 10,326

| style="text-align:center; "| Ole Miss Rebels|

| Vaught-Hemingway Stadium

| style="text-align:center;"| 64,038

| The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss

| style="text-align:center; "| Mississippi State Bulldogs|

| Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field

| style="text-align:center;"| 60,311

| Humphrey Coliseum

| style="text-align:center;"| 15,000

| style="text-align:center; "|

| Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium

| style="text-align:center;"| 62,621

| Mizzou Arena

| style="text-align:center;"| 80,126

| Lloyd Noble Center

| style="text-align:center;"| 10,967

| Kimrey Family Stadium

| style="text-align:center;"| 3,180

| style="text-align:center; "| South Carolina Gamecocks|

| Williams-Brice Stadium

| style="text-align:center;"| 77,559

| Colonial Life Arena

| style="text-align:center;"| 18,000

| Founders Park

| style="text-align:center;"| 101,915

| Thompson-Boling Arena

| style="text-align:center;"| 100,119

| Moody Center

| style="text-align:center;"| 10,000

| UFCU Disch-Falk Field

| style="text-align:center;"| 6,649

| style="text-align:center; "| Texas A&M Aggies|

| Kyle Field

| style="text-align:center;"| 102,733

| Reed Arena

| style="text-align:center;"| 12,989

| Blue Bell Park

| style="text-align:center;"| 6,100

| style="text-align:center; "|

| FirstBank Stadium

| style="text-align:center;"| 35,000

| Memorial Gymnasium 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 DivisionI.

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!Sport||Men's||Women's

|Baseball||style="text-align: center;" |16|| style="text-align: center;" |–

|Basketball||style="text-align: center;" |16|| style="text-align: center;" |16

|Cross country||style="text-align: center;" |14|| style="text-align: center;" |16

|Equestrian||style="text-align: center;" |–|| style="text-align: center;" |4

|Football||style="text-align: center;" |16|| style="text-align: center;" |–

|Golf||style="text-align: center;" |16|| style="text-align: center;" |16

|Gymnastics||style="text-align: center;" |–|| style="text-align: center;" |9

|Rowing||style="text-align: center;" |–|| style="text-align: center;" |4

|Soccer||style="text-align: center;" |–|| style="text-align: center;" |16

|Softball||style="text-align: center;" |–|| style="text-align: center;" |15

|Swimming & diving||style="text-align: center;" |11|| style="text-align: center;" |13

|Tennis||style="text-align: center;" |15|| style="text-align: center;" |16

|Indoor track & field||style="text-align: center;" |15|| style="text-align: center;" |16

|Outdoor track & field||style="text-align: center;" |15|| style="text-align: center;" |16

|Volleyball||style="text-align: center;" |–|| style="text-align: center;" | 16

Men's sponsored sports by school

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"

! School!! Baseball !! Basketball !! Cross country !! Football !! width=8% | Golf !! Swimming and diving !! Tennis !! Track and field (indoor) !! Track and field (outdoor) !! Total SEC Sports

| align=left | Alabama || || || || || || || || || || 9

| align=left | Arkansas || || || || || || || || || || 8

| align=left | Auburn || || || || || || || || || || 9

| align=left | Florida || || || || || || || || || || 9

| align=left | Georgia || || || || || || || || || || 9

| align=left | Kentucky || || || || || || || || || || 9

| align=left | LSU || || || || || || || || || || 9

| align=left | Mississippi State || || || || || || || || || || 7

| align=left | Missouri || || || || || || || || || || 8

| align=left | Oklahoma || || || || || || || || || || 8

| align=left | Ole Miss || || || || || || || || || || 8

| align=left | South Carolina || || || || || || || || || || 8

| align=left | Tennessee || || || || || || || || || || 9

| align=left | Texas || || || || || || || || || || 9

| align=left | Texas A&M || || || || || || || || || || 9

| align=left | Vanderbilt || || || || || || || || || || 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:

{| class="wikitable"

! School !! Gymnastics !! Rifle !! Soccer !! Wrestling

| Kentucky || No || GARC || Sun Belt || No

| Missouri || No || No || No || Big 12

|-b

| Oklahoma || MPSF || No || No || Big 12

| South Carolina || No || No || Sun Belt || No

Women's sponsored sports by school

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"

! School!! Basketball !! Cross country !! Equestrian !! Golf !! Gymnastics !! Rowing !! Soccer !! Softball !! Swimming and diving !! Tennis !! Track and field (indoor) !! Track and field (outdoor) !! Volleyball !! Total SEC sports

| align=left | Alabama || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 12

| align=left | Arkansas || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 11

| align=left | Auburn || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 12

| align=left | Florida || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 11

| align=left | Georgia || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 12

| align=left | Kentucky || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 11

| align=left | LSU || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 11

| align=left | Mississippi State || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 9

| align=left | Missouri || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 11

| align=left | Oklahoma || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 11

| align=left | Ole Miss || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 9

| align=left | South Carolina || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 11

| align=left | Tennessee || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 11

| align=left | Texas || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 11

| align=left | Texas A&M || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 11

| align=left | Vanderbilt || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 9

|Totals || 16 || 16 || 4 || 16 || 9 || 4 || 16 || 15 || 13 || 16 || 16 || 16 || 16 || 153

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

{| class="wikitable"

! School !! Beach volleyball !! Bowling !! Lacrosse !! Rifle !! Stunt

| Florida || No || No || Big 12 || No || No

| Kentucky || No || No || No || GARC || Independent

| LSU || MPSF || No || No || No || No

| Ole Miss || No || No || No || PRC || No

| South Carolina || Big 12 || No || No || No || No

| Texas || MPSF || No || No || No || No

| Vanderbilt || No || CUSA || 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.

Conference champions

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

Current champions

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

{| class="wikitable" style = "text-align: center"

! Season !! Sport !! colspan = 2 | Men's champion !! colspan = 2 | Women's champion

| rowspan = 4 | Fall 2025

| Cross country || colspan = 2 | Alabama || colspan = 2 | Florida

| Football || colspan = 2 | Georgia || colspan=2 align=center | –

| Soccer || colspan=2 | – || Arkansas (RS) || Vanderbilt (T)

| Volleyball || colspan=2 | – || colspan=2 | Kentucky (RS & T)

| rowspan = 5 | Winter 2025–26

| Basketball || Florida (RS) || Arkansas (T) || South Carolina (RS) || Texas (T)

| Equestrian || colspan=2 | – || colspan=2 | Texas A&M

| Gymnastics || colspan=2 | – || Oklahoma (RS) || Florida (T)

| Swimming and diving || colspan=2 | Texas || colspan=2 | Texas

| Track and field (indoor) || colspan=2 | Arkansas || colspan=2 | Florida

| rowspan = 6 | Spring 2026

| Baseball || Texas (RS, 2025) || Vanderbilt (T, 2025) || colspan="2" align="center" | –

| Softball || colspan=2 | – || Oklahoma (RS) || Texas (T)

| Golf || colspan=2 | Ole Miss || colspan=2 | Tennessee

| Rowing || colspan=2 | – || colspan=2 | Tennessee

| Tennis || colspan=2 | Texas (RS & T) || Auburn, Oklahoma, Texas (RS) || Auburn (T)

| Track and field (outdoor) || colspan=2 | Arkansas (2025) || colspan=2 | Georgia (2025)

Source: SECSports.com.

Football

40px|alt=|link=2026 Southeastern Conference football season For the upcoming season, see 2026 Southeastern Conference football season.

Scheduling

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.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

!1992–2011 Divisional Rival

!1992–2002 Divisional Rival

! colspan="3" |East

!Georgia

|Auburn

|Ole Miss

!Florida

|LSU

|Auburn

!Kentucky

|Mississippi State

|LSU

!South Carolina

|Arkansas

|Mississippi State

!Tennessee

|Alabama

|Arkansas

!Vanderbilt

|Ole Miss

|Alabama

! colspan="3" |West

!Alabama

|Tennessee

|Vanderbilt

!Arkansas

|South Carolina

|Tennessee

!Auburn

|Georgia

|Florida

!LSU

|Florida

|Kentucky

!Mississippi State

|Kentucky

|South Carolina

!Ole Miss

|Vanderbilt

|Georgia

Under the format used from 2012 to 2023 when the SEC had 14 teams, 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. Non-permanent cross-division opponents face each other in the regular season twice in a span of twelve years. 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 in April 2014 to keep the current format for an additional six to eight seasons beyond 2015. 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.

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. 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.

Starting in 2026, the SEC will schedule nine conference games (up from eight) per school in a bid to increase its members' chances at the College Football Playoff. Each school will play three annual opponents and each team's remaining six games will rotate among the remaining conference schools. Under this format every school will play every other school at least once in two years and twice (home and away) in four years. In addition the SEC announced that teams must annually schedule at least one high-quality non-conference opponent from the ACC, Big Ten or Big 12 conferences or Notre Dame every year.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

!colspan="3" |Protected Rivalries

!style="" |Alabama

|Auburn

|Tennessee

|Mississippi State

!style="" |Arkansas

|LSU

|Texas

|Missouri

!style="" |Auburn

|Alabama

|Georgia

|Vanderbilt

!style="" |Florida

|Georgia

|South Carolina

|Kentucky

!style="" |Georgia

|Florida

|Auburn

|South Carolina

!style="" |Kentucky

|Tennessee

|Florida

|South Carolina

!style="" |LSU

|Ole Miss

|Arkansas

|Texas A&M

!style="" |Mississippi State

|Ole Miss

|Alabama

|Vanderbilt

!style="" |Missouri

|Arkansas

|Oklahoma

|Texas A&M

!style="" |Oklahoma

|Texas

|Missouri

|Ole Miss

!style="" |Ole Miss

|Mississippi State

|LSU

|Oklahoma

!style="" |South Carolina

|Georgia

|Florida

|Kentucky

!style="" |Tennessee

|Alabama

|Kentucky

|Vanderbilt

!style="" |Texas

|Oklahoma

|Texas A&M

|Arkansas

!style="" |Texas A&M

|Texas

|LSU

|Missouri

!style="" |Vanderbilt

|Tennessee

|Auburn

|Mississippi State

All-time school records (ranked according to winning percentage)

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

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"

! scope="col" | #

! scope="col" | Team

! scope="col" | Won

! scope="col" | Loss

! scope="col" | Tied

! scope="col" | Win %

! scope="col" | Division Championships

! scope="col" | SEC Championships

! scope="col" | Claimed National Championships

| 1

| Alabama

| 965

| 337

| 43

| 16

| 30

| 18

| 2

| Oklahoma

| 944

| 341

| 53

| 0

| 7

| 3

| Texas

| 948

| 392

| 33

| 0

| 4

| Tennessee

| 865

| 414

| 53

| 6

| 13

| 6

| 5

| Georgia

| 881

| 429

| 54

| 13

| 16

| 4

| 6

| LSU

| 806

| 434

| 47

| 10

| 12

| 4

| 7

| Florida

| 758

| 445

| 40

| 15

| 8

| 3

| 8

| Auburn

| 799

| 471

| 47

| 6

| 8

| 9

| Texas A&M

| 778

| 504

| 48

| 0

| 3

| 10

| Arkansas

| 740

| 539

| 40

| 3

| 0

| 1

| 11

| Ole Miss

| 675

| 547

| 35

| 0

| 6

| 3

| 12

| Missouri

| 711

| 590

| 52

| 2

| 0

| 13

| South Carolina

| 635

| 612

| 44

| 1

| 0

| 14

| Kentucky

| 643

| 647

| 44

| 0

| 2

| 1

| 15

| Mississippi State

| 586

| 609

| 39

| 1

| 0

| 16

| Vanderbilt

| 618

| 665

| 50

| 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.
Vanderbilt has been awarded 6 National Championship titles, although the school does not claim them

Championship game

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. Since 2024, when the SEC eliminated its football divisions, the game has featured 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. 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 2024, the only members without a Championship Game appearance are Kentucky, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt.

Bowl games

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

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"

! style="width:80px;"| Pick

! style="width:160px;"| Name

! style="width:180px;"| Location

! style="width:170px;"| Opposing conference

! style="width:110px;"| Opposing pick

! style="width:50px;"| 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.

^ 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.

Head coach compensation

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 2024 season.

{| class="wikitable sortable"

! style="width:100px;"| Conference pay rank

! style="width:190px;"| Institution

! style="width:190px;"| Head coach

! style="width:130px;"| 2024 total pay

| 1

| $13,282,580

| 2

| $13,000,000

| $10,600,000

| 4

| $10,000,000

| 5

| $5,500,000

| 6

| $9,000,000

| 7

| $9,000,000

| 8

| $8,152,000

| 9

| $7,450,000

| 10

| Texas A&M University

| $7,000,000

| 11

| Auburn University

| $6,750,000

| 12

| $6,500,000

| 13

| $6,401,996

| 14

| $4,250,000

| 15

| Vanderbilt University

| $3,189,744

| Interim head coach

Player awards

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.

50th anniversary All-Time SEC Team

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.

Coach: Paul "Bear" Bryant

Offense

QB Archie Manning, Ole Miss 1968–70

HB Charley Trippi, Georgia 1942,45–46

HB Billy Cannon, LSU 1957–59

HB Herschel Walker, Georgia 1980–82

WR Don Hutson, Alabama 1932–34

WR Terry Beasley, Auburn 1969–71

TE Ozzie Newsome, Alabama 1974–77

OL John Hannah, Alabama 1970–72

OL Bruiser Kinard, Ole Miss 1935–37

OC Dwight Stephenson, Alabama 1977–79

OL Bob Suffridge, Tennessee 1938–40

OL Billy Neighbors, Alabama 1959–61

PK Fuad Reveiz, Tennessee 1981–84

Defense

DL Doug Atkins, Tennessee 1950–52

DL Bill Stanfill, Georgia 1966–68

DL Jack Youngblood, Florida 1968–70

DL Lou Michaels, Kentucky 1955–57

DL Gaynell Tinsley, LSU 1934–36

LB Lee Roy Jordan, Alabama 1960–62

LB Jack Reynolds, Tennessee 1967–69

LB D. D. Lewis, Miss. State 1965–67

DB Tucker Frederickson, Auburn 1962–64

DB Jake Scott, Georgia 1967–68

DB Tommy Casanova, LSU 1969–71

DB Don McNeal, Alabama 1977–79

DB Jimmy Patton, Ole Miss 1953–55

P Craig Colquitt, Tennessee 1975–77

Intra-conference football rivalries

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 2024 season.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"

! scope="col" | Team

! scope="col" | Rivalry Name

! scope="col" | Trophy

! scope="col" | Meetings

! scope="col" | Record

! scope="col" | Series Leader

! scope="col" | Current Streak

| Alabama

| Auburn

| Iron Bowl

| Foy, V-ODK Sportsmanship Trophy

| 89

| 51–37–1

| Alabama

| Alabama won 5

| Alabama

| Florida

| Alabama–Florida football rivalry

| None

| 42

| 27–14

| Alabama

| Alabama won 8

| Alabama

| Georgia

| Alabama–Georgia football rivalry

| None

| 74

| 44–26–4

| Alabama

| Alabama won 2

| Alabama

| LSU

| First Saturday in November

| None

| 89

| 57–27–5

| Alabama

| Alabama won 2

| Alabama

| Mississippi State

| Alabama–Mississippi State football rivalry

| None

| 108

| 86–18–3

| Alabama

| Alabama won 16

| Alabama

| Ole Miss

| Alabama–Ole Miss football rivalry

| None

| 71

| 55–10–2

| Alabama

| Alabama won 8

| Alabama

| Tennessee

| Third Saturday in October

| None

| 107

| 59–40–7

| Alabama

| Tennessee won 1

| Arkansas

| LSU

| Arkansas–LSU football rivalry

| Golden Boot

| 70

| 43–23–2

| LSU

| LSU won 3

| Arkansas

| Missouri

| Battle Line Rivalry

| Battle Line Trophy

| 16

| 12–4

| Missouri

| Missouri won 3

| Arkansas

| Ole Miss

| Arkansas–Ole Miss football rivalry

| None

| 71

| 37–31–1

| Arkansas

| Ole Miss won 2

| Arkansas

| Texas

| Arkansas–Texas football rivalry

| None

| 80

| 57–23

| Texas

| Texas won 1

| Arkansas

| Texas A&M

| Arkansas–Texas A&M football rivalry

| Southwest Classic Trophy

| 81

| 42–36–3

| Arkansas

| Texas A&M won 3

| Auburn

| Florida

| Auburn–Florida football rivalry

| None

| 84

| 43–39–2

| Auburn

| Florida won 1

| Auburn

| Georgia

| Deep South's Oldest Rivalry

| None

| 129

| 65–56–8

| Georgia

| Georgia won 8

| Auburn

| LSU

| Auburn–LSU football rivalry

| None

| 58

| 30–24–1

| LSU

| LSU won 2

| Auburn

| Ole Miss

| Auburn–Ole Miss football rivalry

| None

| 48

| 35–12

| Auburn

| Ole Miss won 2

| Auburn

| Tennessee

| Auburn–Tennessee football rivalry

| None

| 54

| 29–22–3

| Auburn

| Auburn won 1

| Florida

| Georgia

| Florida–Georgia football rivalry

| Okefenokee Oar

| 102

| 56–44–2

| Georgia

| Georgia won 4

| Florida

| Kentucky

| Florida–Kentucky football rivalry

| None

| 75

| 54–21

| Florida

| Florida won 1

| Florida

| LSU

| Florida–LSU football rivalry

| None

| 71

| 34–31–3

| Florida

| Florida won 1

| Florida

| Tennessee

| Florida–Tennessee football rivalry

| None

| 54

| 32–22

| Florida

| Tennessee won 1

| Georgia

| South Carolina

| Georgia–South Carolina football rivalry

| None

| 76

| 55–19–2

| Georgia

| Georgia won 4

| Georgia

| Tennessee

| Georgia–Tennessee football rivalry

| None

| 54

| 29–23–2

| Georgia

| Georgia won 8

| Georgia

| Vanderbilt

| Georgia–Vanderbilt football rivalry

| None

| 83

| 61–20–2

| Georgia

| Georgia won 6

| Kentucky

| Tennessee

| Kentucky–Tennessee football rivalry

| Beer Barrel

| 120

| 84–26–9

| Tennessee

| Tennessee won 4

| Kentucky

| Vanderbilt

| Kentucky–Vanderbilt football rivalry

| None

| 97

| 48–44–4

| Kentucky

| Vanderbilt won 1

| LSU

| Mississippi State

| LSU–Mississippi State football rivalry

| None

| 117

| 75–36–3

| LSU

| LSU won 3

| LSU

| Ole Miss

| Magnolia Bowl

| Magnolia Bowl Trophy

| 113

| 64–42–4

| LSU

| LSU won 1

| LSU

| Texas A&M

| LSU–Texas A&M football rivalry

| None

| 63

| 32–24–3

| LSU

| Texas A&M won 1

| Mississippi State

| Ole Miss

| Egg Bowl

| Golden Egg

| 121

| 66–46–6

| Ole Miss

| Ole Miss won 2

| Missouri

| Oklahoma

| Missouri–Oklahoma football rivalry

| Tiger–Sooner Peace Pipe

| 97

| 67–25–5

| Oklahoma

| Missouri won 1

| Missouri

| South Carolina

| Mayor's Cup

| 15

| 9–6

| Missouri

| South Carolina won 1

| Oklahoma

| Texas

| Red River Rivalry

| Golden Hat Trophy

| 120

| 64–51–5

| Texas

| Texas won 1

| Ole Miss

| Vanderbilt

| Ole Miss–Vanderbilt football rivalry

| None

| 98

| 54–40–2

| Ole Miss

| Ole Miss won 5

| South Carolina

| Tennessee

| South Carolina–Tennessee football rivalry

| None

| 42

| 27–11–2

| Tennessee

| Tennessee won 1

| Tennessee

| Vanderbilt

| Tennessee–Vanderbilt football rivalry

| None

| 119

| 79–33–5

| Tennessee

| Tennessee won 6

| Texas

| Texas A&M

| Texas–Texas A&M football rivalry

| Cotton Holdings Trophy

| 119

| 77–37–5

| Texas

| Texas won 2

Interconference football rivalries

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

! colspan="2" scope="col" | Teams

! scope="col" | Rivalry name

! scope="col" | Trophy

! scope="col" | Meetings

! scope="col" | Record

! scope="col" | Series leader

! scope="col" | Existing streak

! scope="col" | Opposing conference

| rowspan="3" | Alabama

| Clemson

| Alabama–Clemson football rivalry

| rowspan="7" | None

| 19

| 14–5

| Alabama

| Alabama lost 1

| rowspan="2" | 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

| 38

| 30–8

| Arkansas

| Arkansas won 1

| Big 12

| rowspan="3" | Auburn

| Clemson

| Auburn–Clemson football rivalry

| 51

| 34–15–2

| Auburn

| Auburn lost 4

| rowspan="2" | 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

| rowspan="2" | Florida

| Florida State

| Sunshine Showdown

| Makala Trophy, Florida Cup

| 68

| 38–28–2

| Florida

| Florida won 1

| rowspan="4" | ACC

| Miami (FL)

| Florida–Miami football rivalry

| Florida Cup

| 57

| 27–30

| Miami (FL)

| Florida lost 1

| rowspan="2" | Georgia

| Clemson

| Clemson–Georgia football rivalry

| None

| 66

| 44–18–4

| Georgia

| Georgia won 2

| Georgia Tech

| Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate

| The Governor's Cup

| 118

| 72–41–5

| Georgia

| Georgia won 7

| rowspan="4" | Kentucky

| Centre

| Centre–Kentucky rivalry

| rowspan="2" |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

| 36

| 19–16

| Kentucky

| Kentucky lost 1

| 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

| rowspan="4" | 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

| rowspan="2" | 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

| rowspan="2" | Big Ten

| rowspan="2" | 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

| rowspan="2" | Ole Miss

| Memphis

| Mid-South Rivalry

| rowspan="2" | None

| 63

| 47–12–2

| Ole Miss

| Ole Miss lost 1

| rowspan="2" | AAC

| Tulane

| Ole Miss–Tulane football rivalry

| 73

| 43–28

| Ole Miss

| Ole Miss won 13

| rowspan="2" | South Carolina

| Clemson

| Palmetto Bowl

| Palmetto Trophy

| 121

| 44–73–4

| Clemson

| South Carolina won 1

| rowspan="3" | ACC

| North Carolina

| North Carolina–South Carolina football rivalry

| rowspan="5" | 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

| rowspan="4" | Texas

| Baylor

| Baylor–Texas football rivalry

| 113

| 81–28–4

| Texas

| Texas won 2

| Big 12

| 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

| rowspan="5" | Big 12

| Texas Tech

| Texas–Texas Tech football rivalry

| Chancellor's Spurs

| 73

| 55–18

| Texas

| Texas won 1

| rowspan="3" | Texas A&M

| Baylor

| Battle of the Brazos

| rowspan="3" | 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

| rowspan="2" | Vanderbilt

| Georgia Tech

| Georgia Tech–Vanderbilt football rivalry

| Gold Cowbell

| 39

| 16–20–3

| Georgia Tech

| Vanderbilt won 1

| ACC

| Sewanee

| Sewanee–Vanderbilt football rivalry

| None

| 52

| 40–8–4

| Vanderbilt

| Vanderbilt won 1

| SAA (D-III)

Men's basketball

40px|alt=|link=2025–26 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season For the current season, see 2025–26 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. 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.

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.

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; ironically, a loss to the Wildcats at Lexington in the regular season finale prevented the 1980–81 Tigers from an 18–0 conference record). 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. 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. Sometimes, the tournament will take place at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, or Benchmark International 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.

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.

NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations

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

{| class="wikitable"

! Year

! colspan=2|Champion

! colspan=2|Runner-up

! colspan=2|Venue and city

|1947

|Holy Cross || 58

|Oklahoma || 47

|Madison Square Garden || New York City, New York

|1948

|Kentucky || 58

|Baylor || 42

|Madison Square Garden || New York City, New York

|1949

|Kentucky || 46

|Oklahoma A&M || 36

|Hec Edmundson Pavilion || Seattle, Washington

|1951

|Kentucky || 68

|Kansas State || 58

|Williams Arena || Minneapolis, Minnesota

|1958

|Kentucky || 84

|Seattle || 72

|Freedom Hall || Louisville, Kentucky

|1966

|Texas Western || 72

|Kentucky || 65

|Cole Field House || College Park, Maryland

|1975

|UCLA || 92

|Kentucky || 85

|San Diego Sports Arena || San Diego, California

|1978

|Kentucky || 94

|Duke || 88

|The Checkerdome || St. Louis, Missouri

|1988

|Kansas || 83

|Oklahoma || 79

|Kemper Arena || Kansas City, Missouri

|1994

|Arkansas || 76

|Duke || 72

|Charlotte Coliseum || Charlotte, North Carolina

|1995

|UCLA || 89

|Arkansas || 78

|Kingdome || Seattle, Washington

|1996

|Kentucky || 76

|Syracuse || 67

|Continental Airlines Arena || East Rutherford, New Jersey

|1997†

|Arizona || 84

|Kentucky || 79

|RCA Dome || Indianapolis, Indiana

|1998

|Kentucky || 78

|Utah || 69

|Alamodome || San Antonio, Texas

|2000

|Michigan State || 89

|Florida || 76

| RCA Dome || Indianapolis, Indiana

|2006

|Florida || 73

|UCLA || 57

|RCA Dome || Indianapolis, Indiana

|2007

|Florida || 84

|Ohio State || 75

|Georgia Dome || Atlanta, Georgia

|2012

|Kentucky || 67

|Kansas || 59

|Mercedes-Benz Superdome || New Orleans, Louisiana

|2014

|UConn || 60

|Kentucky || 54

|AT&T Stadium || Arlington, Texas

|2025

|Florida || 65

|Houston || 63

|Alamodome || San Antonio, Texas

Awards

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.

Baseball

Starting in 2025 with the addition of Oklahoma and Texas, schools play a 30–game league schedule (10 three-game series), with two permanent opponents and eight rotating opponents. Between 1996 and 2012, the SEC consisted of two divisions, where schools played all five teams within their division and five schools from the opposite division, resulting in only one missed opponent in any given season. From 2012 to 2024, with the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M, schedules consisted of games played against all six other divisional opponents and four opponents from the opposite division, meaning three missed opponents in a given season.

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, Tennessee winning its first title in 2024, and LSU winning again in 2025. 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. 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 (8). 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 future SEC member 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.

The NCAA automatic berth is given to the winner of the SEC Baseball Tournament, which was first started in 1977. The 2025 tournament, the first after the addition of Oklahoma and Texas, was the first to include all conference members, and also the first to use a single-elimination format throughout. Previously, at least some rounds used a double-elimination format. Regardless of the format, seeding is based on regular-season records. Since 1998, the tournament has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. 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.

Because of the arrival of Oklahoma and Texas for the 2025 baseball season, the tournament was expanded to a 16-team, single elimination tournament. The top 4 seeds earn a double-bye to the quarterfinals, and seeds 5–8 earn a bye to the second round.

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. Three of these reached the MCWS despite going 0–2 in the SEC Tournament — Mississippi State in 2007 and 2021, and Texas A&M in 2024, with Texas A&M reaching the MCWS championship series and Mississippi State outright winning the 2021 MCWS.

National championships, Men's College World Series, and NCAA tournament appearances

Southeastern Conference baseball programs have combined to win 16 NCAA baseball championships as SEC members. LSU has won eight, South Carolina and Vanderbilt have won two, and Florida, Georgia, Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Tennessee have won one national championship each as SEC members. Texas has won six, Oklahoma has won two, and Missouri has won one championship prior to joining the SEC. Every SEC team has advanced to the Men's College World Series at least once in its history, and only Kentucky has made fewer than five MCWS appearances. Twelve SEC schools (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt) are among the national top 50 in all-time NCAA tournament appearances.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"

! scope="col" | School

! data-sort-type="number" scope="col" |

| Alabama

| 2

| 5

| 8

| 26

| Arkansas

| 2

| 12

| 15

| 36

| Auburn

| 6

| 8

| 25

| Florida

| 1

| 3

| 14

| 16

| 40

| Georgia

| 1

| 6

| 7

| 17

| Kentucky

| 1

| 3

| 10

| LSU

| 8

| 1

| 39

| 50

| Ole Miss

| 1

| 6

| 8

| 26

| Mississippi State

| 1

| 12

| 16

| 39

| Missouri

| 1

| 3

| 6

| 1

| 22

| Oklahoma

| 2

| 1

| 11

| 10

| 41

| South Carolina

| 2

| 4

| 11

| 19

| 35

| Tennessee

| 1

| 7

| 8

| 15

| Texas

| 6

| 38

| 24

| 64

| Texas A&M

| 1

| 8

| 11

| 38

| Vanderbilt

| 2

| 5

| 10

| 23

Seasons are listed by the calendar years in which they ended. Italics indicate honors earned before the school competed in the SEC.

Men's College World Series champions, runners-up, and scores

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.

{| class="wikitable"

! Year

! Champion

! Runner-up

! Score(s)

! colspan=2|Venue

|1949

|Texas

|Wake Forest

|10–3

|Lawrence–Dumont Stadium || Wichita, Kansas

|1950

|Texas

|Washington State

|3–0