Southern

Team	Conf.	Overall	Poll	Elo	Last 5
North Carolina	4–⁠0–⁠1	8–⁠2–⁠1	9	1647		WWWWL
William & Mary	7–⁠1	8–⁠2		1608		WWLWW
NC State	6–⁠1	8–⁠3	18	1538		LWWWL
South Carolina	4–⁠2	5–⁠3		1443		WWWLL
Duke	3–⁠2	4–⁠5		1586		LLWWL
Richmond	3–⁠2–⁠2	6–⁠2–⁠3		1342		WWTLT
Virginia Tech	3–⁠3–⁠2	3–⁠4–⁠3		1400		LWTWL
VMI	3–⁠3–⁠1	4–⁠5–⁠1		1292		LLWWL
GWGeorge Washington	1–⁠1	4–⁠3		1373		WLLWL
Wake Forest	2–⁠3	6–⁠3		1580		WWLLW
Clemson	2–⁠3	4–⁠5		1462		LWLWW
Maryland	2–⁠5	3–⁠6		1367		LLWLL
WAWashington and Lee	1–⁠4	2–⁠6		1275		LWLLL
Furman	1–⁠4	2–⁠8		1200		LLLLL
Davidson	1–⁠5	4–⁠5		1262		WLLLW
The Citadel	1–⁠5	3–⁠5		1311		LLLLW

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 30–⁠23–⁠2 outside the conference.

• FBS teams14–⁠23–⁠1
• Others16–⁠0–⁠1

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).