List of Southeastern Conference national championships

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.

Year	School	Source	Officially Claimed
1934	Alabama	Dunkel, Houlgate, Poling, Williamson, Ronnie Bunch	Yes
1935	LSU	Williamson	No
1936	LSU	Williamson	No
1938	Tennessee	Billingsley, Boand, Dunkel, Football Research, Houlgate, Litkenhous, Poling, Sagarin	Yes
1940	Tennessee	Dunkel, Williamson	Yes
1941	Alabama	Houlgate	Yes
1942	Georgia	Berryman, DeVold, Houlgate, Litkenhous, Poling, Williamson	Yes
1945	Alabama	National Championship Foundation	No
1946	Georgia	Williamson	No
1950	Kentucky	Sagarin	Yes
1950	Tennessee	Billingsley, DeVold, Dunkel, Football Research, National Championship Foundation	Yes
1951	Tennessee	AP, Litkenhous, UPI, Williamson	Yes
1951	Georgia Tech	Berryman, Boand	No
1952	Georgia Tech	Berryman, INS, Poling	Yes
1956	Tennessee	Sagarin	No
1956	Georgia Tech	Berryman	No
1957	Auburn	AP, Football Research, Helms, National Championship Foundation, Poling, Williamson	Yes
1958	LSU	AP, Berryman, Billingsley, Boand, DeVold, Dunkel, FB News, Football Research, Helms, Litkenhous, National Championship Foundation, Poling, Sagarin, UPI, Williamson	Yes
1959	Ole Miss	Berryman, Dunkel	Yes
1960	Ole Miss	Billingsley, DeVold, Dunkel, Football Research, FW, National Championship Foundation, Williamson	Yes
1961	Alabama	AP, Berryman, Billingsley, DeVold, Dunkel, FB News, Football Research, Helms, Litkenhous, National Championship Foundation, NFF, Sagarin, UPI, Williamson	Yes
1962	LSU	Berryman	No
1962	Ole Miss	Billingsley, Litkenhous	Yes
1964	Alabama	AP, Berryman, Litkenhous, UPI	Yes
1965	Alabama	AP, Billingsley, Football Research, FW, National Championship Foundation	Yes
1966	Alabama	Berryman	No
1967	Tennessee	Litkenhous	Yes
1968	Georgia	Litkenhous	No
1973	Alabama	Berryman, UPI	Yes
1975	Alabama	Matthews	No
1977	Alabama	Football Research	No
1978	Alabama	AP, FACT, Football Research, FW, Helms, National Championship Foundation, NFF	Yes
1979	Alabama	AP, Berryman, Billingsley, DeVold, Dunkel, FACT, FB News, FW, Helms, Matthews, National Championship Foundation, NFF, NY Times, Poling, Sagarin, Sporting News, UPI	Yes
1980	Georgia	AP, Berryman, FACT, FB News, FW, Helms, National Championship Foundation, NFF, Poling, Sporting News, UPI	Yes
1983	Auburn	FACT, Football Research, NY Times	No
1984	Florida	Billingsley, DeVold, Dunkel, FACT, Matthews, NY Times, Sagarin, Sporting News	No
1992	Alabama	AP, Berryman, Billingsley, DeVold, Dunkel, Eck, FACT, FB News, Football Research, FW, Matthews, National Championship Foundation, NY Times, Sporting News, UPI/NFF, USA/CNN	Yes
1993	Auburn	National Championship Foundation	No
1996	Florida	AP, Berryman, Billingsley, Eck, FACT, FB News, FW, NFF, Sagarin, Sporting News, USA/CNN, NY Times, National Championship Foundation, Dunkel, Matthews, DeVold	Yes
1998	Tennessee	Alderson, AP, BCS, Berryman, Billingsley, DeVold, Dunkel, Eck, FACT, FB News, FW, Matthews, National Championship Foundation, NFF, NY Times, Seattle Times, Sporting News, USA/ESPN	Yes
2003	LSU	BCS, Billingsley, Colley, DeVold, Dunkel, FACT, Massey, NFF, Sagarin, Seattle Times, USA/ESPN	Yes
2006	Florida	BCS, USA Today, AP	Yes
2007	LSU	BCS, USA Today, AP	Yes
2008	Florida	BCS, USA Today, AP	Yes
2009	Alabama	BCS, USA Today, AP	Yes
2010	Auburn	BCS, USA Today, AP	Yes
2011	Alabama	BCS, USA Today, AP	Yes
2012	Alabama	BCS, USA Today, AP	Yes
2015	Alabama	CFP, USA Today, AP	Yes
2017	Alabama	CFP, USA Today, AP	Yes
2019	LSU	CFP, USA Today, AP	Yes

Men's cross country (8)

• Prior to joining the SEC in 1992, Arkansas won four titles in men's cross country.

Year	School
1972	Tennessee
1991	Arkansas
1992	Arkansas
1993	Arkansas
1995	Arkansas
1998	Arkansas
1999	Arkansas
2000	Arkansas

Women's cross country (2)

Year	School
1988	Kentucky
2019	Arkansas

Women's soccer (1)

Year	School
1998	Florida

Winter sports

Men's basketball (11 official, 1 more claimed)

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.

Year	School	Notes
1935	LSU	MNC claim based on winning the American Legion Bowl game^†
1948	Kentucky
1949	Kentucky
1951	Kentucky
1958	Kentucky
1978	Kentucky
1994	Arkansas
1996	Kentucky
1998	Kentucky
2006	Florida
2007	Florida
2012	Kentucky

† 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]

Women's basketball (9, 1 more claimed)

• 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.

Year	School	Notes
1987	Tennessee
1989	Tennessee
1991	Tennessee
1996	Tennessee
1997	Tennessee
1998	Tennessee
2007	Tennessee
2008	Tennessee
2017	South Carolina
2020	South Carolina	MNC claim based on final polls.^†

† 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]

Women's gymnastics (20)

Year	School
1982	Florida
1987	Georgia
1988	Alabama
1989	Georgia
1991	Alabama
1993	Georgia
1996	Alabama
1998	Georgia
1999	Georgia
2002	Alabama
2005	Georgia
2006	Georgia
2007	Georgia
2008	Georgia
2009	Georgia
2011	Alabama
2012	Alabama
2013	Florida
2014	Florida (co-champions)*
2015	Florida

* Florida shared the 2014 national title with Oklahoma.

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.

Year	School
1992	Arkansas
1993	Arkansas
1994	Arkansas
1995	Arkansas
1997	Arkansas
1998	Arkansas
1999	Arkansas
2000	Arkansas
2001	LSU
2002	Tennessee
2003	Arkansas
2004	LSU
2005	Arkansas
2006	Arkansas
2010	Florida
2011	Florida
2012	Florida
2013	Arkansas
2017	Texas A&M
2018	Florida

Women's indoor track and field (16)

Year	School
1987	LSU
1989	LSU
1991	LSU
1992	Florida
1993	LSU
1994	LSU
1995	LSU
1996	LSU
1997	LSU
2002	LSU
2003	LSU
2004	LSU
2005	Tennessee
2009	Tennessee
2015	Arkansas
2018	Georgia
2019	Arkansas

Men's swimming and diving (11)

Year	School
1978	Tennessee
1983	Florida
1984	Florida
1997	Auburn
1999	Auburn
2003	Auburn
2004	Auburn
2005	Auburn
2006	Auburn
2007	Auburn
2009	Auburn

Women's swimming and diving (15)

Year	School
1979	Florida
1982	Florida
1999	Georgia
2000	Georgia
2001	Georgia
2002	Auburn
2003	Auburn
2004	Auburn
2005	Georgia
2006	Auburn
2007	Auburn
2010	Florida
2013	Georgia
2014	Georgia
2016	Georgia

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.

Rifle (2)

Year	School
2011	Kentucky
2018	Kentucky

Note that the SEC does not sponsor rifle. Kentucky is a member of the single-sport Great America Rifle Conference.

Spring sports

Baseball (13)

Prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Missouri won one national title (in 1954).

Year	School
1954	Missouri
1990	Georgia
1991	LSU
1993	LSU
1996	LSU
1997	LSU
2000	LSU
2009	LSU
2010	South Carolina
2011	South Carolina
2014	Vanderbilt
2017	Florida
2019	Vanderbilt

Softball (3)

• Prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Texas A&M won one AIAW national title (1982) and two NCAA national titles (1983 and 1987).

Year	School
2012	Alabama
2014	Florida
2015	Florida

Men's outdoor track and field (21*)

• Prior to joining the SEC in 1992, Arkansas won one title in men's outdoor track.
• Prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Texas A&M won three titles in men's outdoor track.

Year	School
1933	LSU
1974	Tennessee
1989	LSU
1990	LSU
1991	Tennessee
1992	Arkansas
1993	Arkansas
1994	Arkansas
1995	Arkansas
1996	Arkansas
1997	Arkansas
1998	Arkansas
1999	Arkansas
2001	Tennessee
2002	LSU
2003	Arkansas
2004*	Arkansas (vacated)*
2005*	Arkansas (vacated)*
2012	Florida
2013	Texas A&M/Florida***
2016	Florida
2017	Florida
2018	Georgia

* 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.

Women's outdoor track and field (18*)

• Prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Texas A&M won three titles in women's outdoor track.

Year	School
1987	LSU
1988	LSU
1989	LSU
1990	LSU
1991	LSU
1992	LSU
1993	LSU
1994	LSU
1995	LSU
1996	LSU
1997	LSU
2000	LSU
2002	South Carolina
2003	LSU
2006	Auburn
2008	LSU
*2012	*LSU (vacated)
2014	Texas A&M
2019	Arkansas

• LSU was forced to vacate the 2012 Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship due to positive testing for banned substances in one athlete.[8]

Men's tennis (7)

Year	School
1959	Tulane
1985	Georgia
1987	Georgia
1999	Georgia
2001	Georgia
2007	Georgia
2008	Georgia

Women's tennis (10)

Year	School
1992	Florida
1994	Georgia
1996	Florida
1998	Florida
2000	Georgia
2003	Florida
2011	Florida
2012	Florida
2015	Vanderbilt
2017	Florida

Men's golf (13)

• Prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Texas A&M won one national title (in 2009).

Year	School
1940	LSU
1942	LSU
1947	LSU
1955	LSU
1968	Florida
1973	Florida
1993	Florida
1999	Georgia
2001	Florida
2005	Georgia
2013	Alabama
2014	Alabama
2015	LSU

Women's golf (4)

Year	School
1985	Florida
1986	Florida
2001	Georgia
2012	Alabama

Defunct NCAA championships

Men's boxing (1)

Year	School
1949	LSU

NCAA emerging sports

Equestrian (15)

• 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).

Year	School
2003	Georgia
2004	Georgia
2005	South Carolina
2006	Auburn
2007	South Carolina
2008	Georgia
2009	Georgia
2010	Georgia
2011	Auburn
2013	Auburn
2014	Georgia
2015	South Carolina
2016	Auburn
2017	Texas A&M
2018	Auburn
2019	Auburn

NCAA team championships

Through March 12, 2018[11]

School	Total	NCAA Men's	NCAA Women's	NCAA Co-ed	Nickname
University of Arkansas	48	46	2	0	Razorbacks
Louisiana State University	48	22	16	0	Tigers
University of Florida	40	19	21	0	Gators
University of Georgia	45	14	31	0	Bulldogs
University of Tennessee	16	6	10	0	Volunteers
Auburn University	14	8	6	0	Tigers
Texas A&M University	13	6	7	0	Aggies
University of Alabama	27	19	8	0	Crimson Tide
University of Kentucky	11	8	1	2	Wildcats
University of South Carolina	4	2	2	0	Gamecocks
Vanderbilt University	5	2	3	0	Commodores
University of Missouri	2	2	0	0	Tigers
University of Mississippi	3	3	0	0	Rebels
Mississippi State University	0	0	0	0	Bulldogs

See also: List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships, List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships, and NCAA Division I FBS Conferences

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.

References

1. SEC All-Time National Champions Archived 2007-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
2. "About the SEC". Southeastern Conference. Archived from the original on 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
3. "Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame – Louis "Buddy" Brown". lasportshall.com. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
4. ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. p. 544. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
5. Negley, Cassandra. "Dawn Staley on No. 1-ranked Gamecocks: 'Crown us the national champion'". Yahoo.com. Verizon. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
6. Arkansas vacates track titles over NCAA violations
7. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=3079118
8. http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5200&ATCLID=205745374
9. Official NCAA Varsity Equestrian Site Archived 2008-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
10. List of NCAA Equestrian Champions Archived 2006-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
11. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Overall.pdf