Southern Conference football champions

The list of Southern Conference football champions includes 19 distinct teams that have won the college football championship awarded by the Southern Conference since its creation. In total, forty-one teams have sponsored football in the conference. [Current members Charleston and UNC Greensboro do not sponsor football. Davidson plays football in the non-scholarship Pioneer Football League.] Just three—Elon, Samford and Western Carolina—have never won a Southern Conference football championship.

The conference was formed in 1921 when fourteen members from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) met in Atlanta, Georgia with the purpose of creating a workable number of conference games for each member.cite news|title=The History of the Southern Conference|author=Southern Conference|date=2008-06-30|accessdate=2008-07-25|url=http://www.soconsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4000&KEY=&ATCLID=177772] The Southern Conference is notable for having spawned two other major conferences. In 1933, thirteen schools located south and west of the Appalachians (Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, , Tennessee, Tulane, and Vanderbilt) departed to form the Southeastern Conference.cite news|title=About the Southeastern Conference (SEC)|author=Southeastern Conference|date=2007|accessdate=2008-07-23|url=http://www.secsports.com/index.php?s=&change_well_id=9993] Twenty years later, in 1953, seven schools (Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, and Wake Forest) withdrew to form the Atlantic Coast Conference.cite news|title=About the ACC|author=Atlantic Coast Conference Conference|date=2008|accessdate=2008-07-25|url=http://www.theacc.com/this-is/acc-this-is.html]

Currently the conference competes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level in athletics, with the football teams playing in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). There are nine football playing members of the Southern Conference: Appalachian State, Chattanooga, The Citadel, Elon, Furman, Georgia Southern, Samford, Western Carolina, and Wofford.

Champions by year

Undefeated teams: 1922–1932

The Southern Conference does not officially recognize championships claimed from the 1922–32 seasons,cite news|title=Football Record Book|work=2005 Southern Conference Football|author=Southern Conference|pages=144|accessdate=2008-06-10|url=http://www.soconsports.com/pdf6/20783.pdf?SPSID=37278&SPID=1781&ATCLID=201460&DB_OEM_ID=4000] as there were upwards of 20 to 23 teams competing within the conference during this time. However, some championships are still cited, such as Georgia Tech's claim of 1922, 1927 and 1928 conference titles.cite web|title=Georgia Tech Titles|author=Georgia Tech Athletics|accessdate=2008-06-10|url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/titles.html]

Former members

ee also

*Southern Conference men's basketball champions

References

External links

* [http://www.soconsports.com/ Official site of the Southern Conference]