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THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE
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were held at Birmingham’s Legion Field, and have since been held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
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UNIVERSITY
Women’s basketball IN THE SEC The SEC has historically been the most dominant conference in women’s basketball. Since the 2009–10 season, teams have played a 16-game conference schedule with a single league table; prior to that time the conference schedule was 14
HISTORY OPPONENT INFO/RECORDS
2012 expansion On September 25, 2011, the SEC Presidents and Chancellors, acting unanimously, announced that Texas A&M University will join the SEC effective July 1, 2012, with Texas A&M to begin competition in nineteen of the twenty sports sponsored by the SEC during the 2012–13 academic year. On November 6, 2011 the SEC commissioner announced that the University of Missouri will also be joining the SEC on July 1, 2012. For football, Texas A&M will compete in the Western Division, and Missouri in the Eastern Division.
RECORDS
The other charter members were: The University of the South (Sewanee) left the SEC on December 13, 1940. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) left the SEC in 1964. Tulane University left the SEC in 1966.
1991 expansion In 1991, the SEC expanded from 10 to 12 member universities with the addition of University of Arkansas and University of South Carolina. The two new teams joined for the 1991–1992 basketball season. At the same time, the SEC split into two divisions—a Western Division comprising most of the schools in the Central Time Zone, and an Eastern Division comprising the schools in the Eastern Time Zone plus Vanderbilt (which is located in the Central Time Zone, but is in the Eastern Division to preserve its rivalry with Tennessee, while Alabama and Auburn are in the same division to preserve theirs despite Auburn being further east than Vanderbilt). This divisional format remains in place today for football and baseball; the divisions have been eliminated for basketball. Also in 1992, the SEC was the first conference to receive permission from the NCAA to sponsor an annual football championship game, featuring the winners of the conference’s Eastern and Western divisions. The 1992 and 1993 SEC Championships
Review
THE SEC The SEC was established on December 8 and 9, 1932, when the 13 members of the Southern Conference located west and south of the Appalachian Mountains left to form their own conference. Ten of the 13 founding members have remained in the conference since its inception: the University of Alabama, Auburn University, the University of Florida, the University of Georgia, the University of Kentucky, Louisiana State University (LSU), the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), Mississippi State University, the University of Tennessee, and Vanderbilt University.