Southern

Team	Conf.	Overall	Poll	Elo	Last 5
Duke	7–⁠0	9–⁠1	11	1742		LWWWW
North Carolina	6–⁠1	8–⁠2		1656		WWLWW
Furman	4–⁠1	7–⁠2		1555		WWWWW
VMI	5–⁠2	6–⁠4		1448		WWWWL
Maryland	4–⁠2	6–⁠5		1510		WLLWL
WAWashington and Lee	3–⁠2	4–⁠5		1435		WLWWL
Davidson	4–⁠3	5–⁠4		1509		WLLWW
Clemson	3–⁠3	5–⁠5		1514		WWWLL
Virginia Tech	4–⁠5	5–⁠5		1430		LWLWW
Wake Forest	2–⁠3	5–⁠4		1412		LWLWL
NC State	2–⁠4	3–⁠7		1416		WLLLL
South Carolina	2–⁠5	5–⁠7		1365		LLLLW
Richmond	1–⁠3	4–⁠4–⁠2		1360		LLLWW
Virginia	1–⁠5	2–⁠7		1293		LLLLL
The Citadel	0–⁠4	4–⁠6		1318		LLLLW
William & Mary	0–⁠5	1–⁠8		1230		LLLLL

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. Poll: the FCS coaches’ poll (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.

Southern teams are 31–⁠28–⁠2 outside the conference.

• FBS teams10–⁠21
• Others21–⁠7–⁠2

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

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 membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1978; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1978); 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 Southern Conference is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2025 reports $4.5 million in revenue, $657,000 of it from bcs football promotions, and $4.6 million in expenses; it ended the year with $6.6 million in assets. Its best-paid, commissioner Michael Cross, was paid $437,000.

From the organization’s IRS Form 990, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS’s e-file data. Fiscal years end in June; 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 54-0674274).