The list of Southeastern Conference national championships begins in 1933, the first year of competition for the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and includes 203 team national championships sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and four additional national championships sanctioned by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), won by current conference members through the end of the 2016−17 academic year.[1] During 2016−17, SEC members won six national championships—women's basketball (South Carolina), men's indoor track & field (Texas A&M), women's equestrian (Texas A&M), men's outdoor track & field (Florida), women's tennis (Florida), and baseball (Florida). The conference has so far won seven national titles in 2017–18, namely Alabama claiming the consensus football championship, Auburn in women's equestrian, Florida in men's indoor track, Georgia in women's indoor track, Kentucky in rifle, Vanderbilt in bowling, and Georgia in men's outdoor track.
The SEC has averaged almost seven national championships per year since 1990.[2]
Listed below are all championship teams of NCAA-sponsored events, as well as the titles won in football and equestrian, which are not official NCAA-sanctioned championships. Conference members have won at least one title in every sponsored sport in which the SEC participates except for women's volleyball. Between 1979 and 1982, teams representing current member universities also claimed four AIAW Championships. Logan Durham claims a mascot national championship at the University of Tennessee.
Fall sports
Football (38 claimed)
Schools don't necessarily claim each of the championships listed.
Pre-SEC
Prior to 1932, Vanderbilt was named national champion in football in 1921 and 1922 by Berryman.
Prior to 1932, LSU was named national champion in football in 1908 by the National Championship Foundation.
Prior to 1932, Auburn was named national champion in football in 1913 by Billingsley and 1914 by Howell.
Prior to 1932, Alabama claimed national championships in football in 1925, 1926, and 1930.
Prior to 1932, Georgia was named national champion in football in 1920 by Berryman and 1927 by the Boand and Poling polls.
Prior to 1932, former member Georgia Tech claimed football national titles in 1917 and 1928.
Prior to joining the SEC in 1992, Arkansas claimed the 1964 football championship.
Prior to Adolph Hitler invading Poland, effectively starting WWII, and long prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Texas A&M *claimed* national titles in 1919, 1927, and 1939, all allegedly awarded by multiple selectors that no longer exist.
Bold type indicates title is officially claimed by the university.
Prior to 1939 the NCAA did not sanction a post-season tournament to determine a national champion. Some schools claim basketball national championships based on polls from this era.
† LSU is the only school that officially claims a basketball national championship on the basis of a win in the American Legion Bowl, an event that made no claim to determine a national champion.[3] The Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively named the 19–1 NYU Violets its national champion for the 1934–35 season. The retroactive Premo-Porretta Power Poll also ranked the Violets as its 1935 national champion. The Premo-Porretta poll ranked LSU fifth.[4]
Prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Texas A&M won one women's basketball title (in 2011).
South Carolina claims a women's basketball championship during the 2019-20 season because of polls after the season ended abruptly because of the coronavirus pandemic.
† South Carolina claims a national championship based on polls after the 2019-20 Coronavirus pandemic ended all NCAA sporting activities on March 12, 2020. The Gamecocks had finished first in the final polls (a procedure similar to college football's national championship in the pre-BCS era, and Dawn Staley has pushed a claim tp the national championship.[5]
Note before 1981, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was the sole governing body for women's intercollegiate athletics and sponsored national championships in women's sports. Starting in 1981, the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) began to sponsor women's athletic championships as well as those for men's sports. During the 1981–82 school year, the AIAW and NCAA both sponsored championships in several women's sports. Starting in 1982–83, the NCAA became the sole sponsor of women's intercollegiate sports championships and national championships in those sports.
Men's indoor track and field (20)
Prior to joining the SEC in 1992, Arkansas won eight titles in men's indoor track.
Prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Missouri won one title in men's indoor track.
Note before 1981, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was the sole governing body for women's intercollegiate athletics and sponsored national championships in women's sports. Starting in 1981, the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) began to sponsor women's athletic championships as well as those for men's sports. During the 1981–82 school year, the AIAW and NCAA both sponsored championships in several women's sports. Beginning in 1982–83, the NCAA became the sole sponsor of women's intercollegiate sports championships and national championships in those sports.
Women's bowling (2)
Year
School
2007
Vanderbilt
2018
Vanderbilt
Note that the SEC does not sponsor bowling. Vanderbilt won its first title as an independent and its second as a member of the single-sport Southland Bowling League.
* Arkansas was forced to vacate the NCAA titles won in 2004 and 2005 because of recruiting violations with Tyson Gay. Florida finished second both years.[6][7]
*** Texas A&M and Florida finished tied for the national title at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship.
The NCAA does not yet sanction a championship for Equestrian.[9] The following is a list of non-NCAA championships won by SEC schools.[10] The SEC began sponsoring equestrian as a conference sport during the 2012–13 school year, with Auburn, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas A&M participating.
Before joining the SEC in 2012, Texas A&M won two national titles (in 2002 and 2012).
The table above ranks the current SEC schools by the number of NCAA recognized national championships each school has won. This does not include Division I-A/FBS football championships, equestrian championships, or unofficial championships in other sports such as men's basketball. However, it does include AIAW titles, which the NCAA has retroactively recognized as equivalent to its own national championships. The totals below include any championships that may have been won before the school was a member of the SEC.
In addition, some recognized national championships are in sports that are not (or were not) sponsored by the SEC:
Kentucky's total includes two championships in rifle, which the SEC has never sponsored.
Vanderbilt's total includes a national title in women's bowling, another sport yet to be sponsored by the SEC.
^ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. p. 544. ISBN978-0-345-51392-2.
