Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.
From Wikipedia’s 1937 all-conference team article (CC BY-SA): each player on the best team any selector named him to (the coaches’, the media’s or the AP’s), in the article’s order. 10 more on third teams aren’t listed here. Players link to their pages where we could match them.
Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.
Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. † Our membership records (CollegeFootballData.com) date the move to another season, or don’t show it. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 1,110 team-seasons from 1933. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.
Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1933); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.
The money
The Southeastern Conference is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to August 2025 reports $1.11 billion in revenue, $772.2 million of it from TV/radio right fees, and $1.12 billion in expenses; it ended the year with $351.0 million in assets. Its best-paid, commissioner Greg Sankey, was paid $4.8 million.
From the organization’s IRS Form 990, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS’s e-file data. Fiscal years end in August; top pay is the best-paid person’s total compensation on the return, listed for e-filed years (2018 on). Grants are the ones the conference lists on Schedule I; bowl payments are the ones bowls list on theirs. See every filing at ProPublica (EIN 63-0377461).
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