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| Association | NCAA |
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| Founded | 1932[1] |
| Commissioner | Greg Sankey (since 2015) |
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| Division | Division I |
| Subdivision | FBS |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| Headquarters | Roy F. Kramer Building 2201 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd. Birmingham, Alabama United States |
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| Most recent champion(s) | Alabama |
| Official website | www |
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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 sixteen members include the flagship public universities of twelve 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; for football it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A.
The SEC was established in 1932 by thirteen members of the old Southern Conference. Three charter members had left by the late 1960s, but subsequent additions in 1990 and 2012 grew the conference to fourteen member institutions. The league again expanded to sixteen members with the addition of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas, in 2024.[3]
Members of the SEC have won many national championships: 43 in football, 21 in basketball, 41 in indoor track, 42 in outdoor track, 24 in swimming, 20 in gymnastics, 15 in baseball (College World Series), and one in volleyball. In 1992, the SEC was the first NCAA Division I conference to hold a championship game (and award a subsequent title) for football and was one of the founding member conferences of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). The current SEC commissioner is Greg Sankey, who has been the commissioner since 2015. The conference sponsors team championships in nine men's sports and twelve women's sports. The conference is successful financially, distributing $721.8 million to its 14 schools in 2022.[4]
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 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, however, soccer will continue to use divisions.[6][7]
Since July 1, 2024, there are 16 members, with Vanderbilt being the only private institution.