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 212 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 2021 College World Series championship series, completed on June 30 of that year.^[1] SEC members won seven national championships in 2020–21: Alabama in football, Arkansas in women's indoor track & field, Florida in men's tennis, Kentucky in rifle and women's volleyball, Mississippi State in baseball, and Ole Miss in women's golf.

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. Kentucky completed this feat by winning the 2020 National Championship in women's volleyball on April 24, 2021. 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 (39 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 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.
• Future SEC member Oklahoma, set to join no later than 2025, officially claims 7 national titles, with 11 more unclaimed titles.
• Future SEC member Texas, set to join alongside Oklahoma, officially claims 4 national titles, with 5 more unclaimed titles.
• 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
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
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
2020	Alabama	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)[]

Future SEC member Texas has won one team title in women's cross country (1986).

Year	School
1988	Kentucky
2019	Arkansas

Women's soccer (1)[]

Year	School
1998	Florida

Women's volleyball (1)[]

Future SEC member Texas has won two national titles in women's volleyball (1988 and 2012).

Year	School
2020[a]	Kentucky

Men's soccer (0)[]

The SEC has never sponsored men's soccer; only two current members, Kentucky and South Carolina, sponsor the sport and are each Conference USA rivals. Their annual derby is nicknamed called the "Southeastern Conference Championship Game".

Winter sports[]

Men's basketball (11 official, 2 more claimed)[]

The NCAA did not sanction a post-season tournament to determine a national champion until 1939. Technically, the NCAA did not actually organize the tournament until 1940, but it includes the 1939 edition as one of its own championships. Some schools claim basketball national championships based on polls from this era.

Year	School	Notes
1933	Kentucky	MNC claim based on Helms Athletic Foundation analysis. 1933-34 team has Premo-Porretta Power Poll that is not claimed but recognized by ESPN.
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 COVID-19.
• Future SEC member Texas won one women's basketball title in 1986.

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 COVID-19 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 Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley has pushed a claim tp the national championship.[5] On December 31, 2020, the Gamecocks raised a banner effectively making the claim.

Men's gymnastics (0)[]

The SEC has never sponsored men's gymnastics. Future member Oklahoma has won 12 team titles in that sport.

Women's gymnastics (20)[]

Future SEC member Oklahoma has won four team titles in women's gymnastics.

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 ***
2015	Florida

*** Florida shared the 2014 national title with future SEC member 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 (17)[]

Future SEC member Texas has won 6 titles in women's indoor track.

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
2021	Arkansas

Men's swimming and diving (11)[]

Future SEC member Texas has won 15 team titles in men's swimming & diving.

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)[]

Future SEC member Texas has won 7 team titles in women's swimming & diving.

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 (3)[]

Year	School
2011	Kentucky
2018	Kentucky
2021	Kentucky

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

Men's wrestling (0)[]

The SEC sponsored wrestling from 1969 to 1981, but no member won an NCAA team title during the existence of SEC wrestling. Future SEC member Oklahoma has won seven national team championships in that sport. Current SEC member Missouri plays currently in the Mid-American Conference in that sport.

Spring sports[]

Baseball (13)[]

One current and two future SEC members have won national titles before joining the conference:

• Prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Missouri won one national title (in 1954).
• Future member Oklahoma won titles in 1951 and 1994.
• Future member Texas won titles in 1949, 1950, 1975, 1983, 2002, and 2005.

Year	School
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
2021	Mississippi State

Softball (3)[]

One current and one future SEC member have won national titles in softball:

• Prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Texas A&M won one AIAW title (1982) and two NCAA titles (1983 and 1987).
• Future member Oklahoma has won five NCAA titles (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021).

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.
• Future SEC member Texas has won four 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 (8)[]

Future SEC member Texas has won one title in men's tennis (2019).

Year	School
1959	Tulane
1985	Georgia
1987	Georgia
1999	Georgia
2001	Georgia
2007	Georgia
2008	Georgia
2021	Florida

Women's tennis (10)[]

Future SEC member Texas has won three titles in women's tennis (1993, 1995, 2021).

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).
• Future SEC member Oklahoma has two national titles (1989 and 2017).
• Future SEC member Texas has three national titles (1971, 1972, and 2012).

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 (5)[]

Year	School
1985	Florida
1986	Florida
2001	Georgia
2012	Alabama
2021	Ole Miss

Women's rowing (0)[]

The SEC has never sponsored women's rowing; only two current members, Alabama and Tennessee, sponsor the sport. The two future members, Oklahoma and Texas, both sponsor the sport, and Texas has won one NCAA title (2021).

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 June 30, 2021^[11]

School	Total	NCAA Men's	NCAA Women's	NCAA Co-ed	Nickname
Louisiana State University	47	22	25	0	Tigers
University of Arkansas	47	42	5	0	Razorbacks
University of Florida	41	21	20	0	Gators
University of Georgia	33	12	21	0	Bulldogs
University of Alabama	27	19	8	0	Crimson Tide
University of Tennessee	16	6	10	0	Volunteers
Auburn University	16	10	6	0	Tigers
University of Kentucky	14	9	2	3	Wildcats
Texas A&M University	14	6	8	0	Aggies
Vanderbilt University	5	2	3	0	Commodores
University of South Carolina	4	2	2	0	Gamecocks
University of Missouri	2	2	0	0	Tigers
University of Mississippi	1	0	1	0	Rebels
Mississippi State University	1	1	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 three 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.

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