Southern Conference
The Southern Conference (or SoCon) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. SoCon football teams compete in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as I-AA). Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The Southern Conference ranks as the fifth oldest major college athletic conference in the United States.
The conference was formed on February 25, 1921 in Atlanta, Georgia as fourteen member institutions split from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.[ Southern Conference charter members were Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi A&M (now Mississippi State), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Washington & Lee. In 1922, six more universities - Florida, LSU, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and]
Vanderbilt joined the conference. Later additions included Sewanee (1923), Virginia Military Institute (1925), Duke (1929), and Wake Forest (1936).
The SoCon is particularly notable for having spawned two other major conferences. In 1933, thirteen schools located south and west of the Appalachians (Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Sewanee, Tennessee, Tulane, and Vanderbilt) departed the SoCon to form the Southeastern Conference.[ In 1953, seven schools (Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, and Wake Forest) withdrew from the SoCon to form the Atlantic Coast Conference.]
Other former members (in addition to those listed above) were East Carolina (1964–76), East Tennessee State (1978–2005), George Washington (1936–70), Marshall (1976–97), Richmond (1936–76), William & Mary (1936–77) and West Virginia (1950–68).
The SoCon is considered one of the strongest football conferences in the Football Championship Subdivision, and is considered a mid-major conference in basketball. It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, from the now three-peat Division I-FCS champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the #5 Michigan Wolverines 34–32 on September 1, 2007; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga, Georgetown and Wisconsin.
Sports offered
Conference commissioners
 Wallace Wade: 1951–60
Lloyd Jordon: 1960–73
Ken Germann: 1974–86
Dave Hart: 1986–91
Wright Waters: 1991–98
Alfred B. White: 1998–2001
Danny Morrison: 2001–05
John Iamarino: 2006–present
Current members
Conference membership increased to 12 full members when Samford joined on July 1, 2008,
Associate members
There is one associate member school (wrestling only):
Former members
Former Southern Conference members
Football
This is a partial list of the last 10 champions. For the full history, see Southern Conference football champions.
Men's basketball
This is a partial list of the last 10 champions. For the full history, see Southern Conference men's basketball champions.
The Southern Conference split into a divisional format for basketball beginning with the 1994–95 season.
Commissioner's and Germann Cups
The Commissioner's and Germann Cups are awarded each year to the top men's and women's program in the conference. The Commissioner's Cup was inaugurated in 1970. The Germann Cup, named for former Southern Conference Commissioner Ken Germann, was first awarded in 1987. The completion of the 2007–08 athletics season saw Appalachian State winning its 28th Commissioner's Cup and Chattanooga winning its 1st Germann Cup.
See also
Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
List of college athletic conferences
External links
Official site of the Southern Conference
Appalachian State athletics
Chattanooga athletics
The Citadel athletics
College of Charleston athletics
Davidson athletics
Elon athletics
Furman athletics
Georgia Southern athletics
Samford athletics
UNC Greensboro athletics
Western Carolina athletics
Wofford athletics
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