South Atlantic

11 current members, six former. Our membership records under this name start in 1991. 2005 champion: Presbyterian.

2023 standings

TeamConf.OverallAPEloLast 5
Lenoir Rhyne8–⁠113–⁠21450WWWWL
Limestone8–⁠18–⁠41274WWWWL
Mars Hill8–⁠28–⁠21310WWWLW
Wingate7–⁠38–⁠31356LWWWW
Tusculum6–⁠36–⁠51207WLWWL
Barton4–⁠56–⁠51172LLLLW
Carson Newman4–⁠55–⁠61150WLWWL
Emory & Henry3–⁠65–⁠61117LWLWL
Catawba3–⁠65–⁠61105LLWLW
Newberry3–⁠64–⁠71156WLLLL
UVA Wise1–⁠82–⁠9976LWLLL
Erskine0–⁠90–⁠11882LLLLL

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.

Against other conferences, 2023

South Atlantic teams are 15–⁠11 outside the conference.

The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from lower divisions count together.

Champions

Most titles

Presbyterian1last 2005

By year

2005Presbyterian

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.

Members

  1. Elon1991–⁠1996
  2. Gardner-Webb1993–⁠1999
  3. Presbyterian1993–⁠2006
  4. Brevard2014–⁠2016
  5. Carson Newman2014 on
  6. Catawba2014 on
  7. Lenoir Rhyne2014 on
  8. Mars Hill2014 on
  9. Newberry2014 on
  10. Tusculum2014 on
  11. Wingate2014 on
  12. Limestone2017 on
  13. UVA Wise2019 on
  14. Barton2022–⁠2024
  15. Emory & Henry2022 on
  16. Erskine2022–⁠2023
  17. Anderson (SC)2024 on
Every school and its years (17)

Members now

Former members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1991; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
2007PresbyterianLeft to play as an independentSource

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. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 152 team-seasons from 1991. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.