College Football - Southern Conference
History - Important facts - Teams - Winners
The Southern Conference or SoCon was originally created 1921 and it is affiliated to the NCAA's Division I. Charter members were: Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Maryland, Mississippi, Mississippi State, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Sewanee, South Carolina, Tennessee, Tulane, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Washington & Lee, Alabama, Auburn and Clemson.
The conference is one of the oldest major college athletic conferences in the United States as the Athletic competition began in the fall of 1921.
Over the years, there has been a total of 40 schools affiliated to the conference which have transformed its format. In 1933, 13 schools left the SoCon to form the Southeastern Conference and in 1952 - 53 other seven schools also departed the SoCon and formed the Atlantic Coast Conference.
One of the conference members that has achieved the most championships is Georgia Southern, which has been part of the Southern Conference since 1991.
Academic excellence has been a major part of the Southern Conference's storied tradition.
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