Since July 1, 2012, there are 14 members, with Vanderbilt being the only private institution. The SEC will eliminate its baseball and football divisions once Oklahoma and Texas join in 2024, however, soccer will continue to use divisions. In football, the two division winners meet in the SEC Championship Game.

These divisional groupings are applied only in football, baseball, and women's soccer, for both scheduling and standings purposes. The SEC is divided into East and West Divisions, although the divisional alignment is not strictly geographic, with Missouri in the East Division while being farther west than several West Division schools, and Auburn in the West Division despite being located farther east than East Division schools Missouri and Vanderbilt. states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. The SEC consists of 14 member institutions located in the U.S. The conference is successful financially, distributing $721.8 million to its 14 schools in 2022. The conference sponsors team championships in nine men's sports and twelve women's sports. The current SEC commissioner is Greg Sankey, who has been the commissioner since 2015. In 1992, the SEC was the first NCAA Division I conference to hold a championship game (and award a subsequent title) for football and was one of the founding member conferences of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). Members of the SEC have won many national championships: 43 in football, 21 in basketball, 41 in indoor track, 42 in outdoor track, 24 in swimming, 20 in gymnastics, 15 in baseball (College World Series), and one in volleyball. The league will expand to sixteen members with the upcoming addition of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas, which are slated to join in 2024.

Three charter members had left by the late 1960s, but subsequent additions in 19 grew the conference to fourteen member institutions. The SEC was established in 1932 by thirteen members of the old Southern Conference. The SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I in sports competitions for football it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A. The conference is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of ten states, three additional public land-grant universities, and one private research university. The Southeastern Conference ( SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. The specific issue is: Screen readers can not read colors in color boxes, screen readers can not read symbols like check marks, text needs to be added for colors and check marks. The accessibility of this article is in question.

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