When Did Arkansas Join The Sec

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When did arkansas join the sec. The sec remained a ten member conference from tulane s withdrawal in 1966 until the 1991 expansion that added south carolina and arkansas. According to the present timetable arkansas will participate in every sec sport except football beginning in 1991. Arkansas jumped to the southeastern conference today severing its 76 year ties to the troubled southwest conference and possibly starting a restructuring of college football leagues. The league has expanded twice adding arkansas and south carolina in 1991 then missouri and texas a m in 2012.

When did ar razorbacks join the sec. Alabama auburn florida georgia kentucky lsu mississippi mississippi state tennessee and vanderbilt have been in the sec since its formation in 1933. Organization contraction and expansion. However the series ceased in 1991 when arkansas left the swc to join the southeastern conference.

Razorback communications july 29 2020. Arkansas joins the sec. Thirty years ago something happened that would change the course of arkansas athletics forever the. Arkansas left the southwest conference to join the sec for the 1992 season.

When the sec formally approached arkansas there was no hesitation. The gamecocks addition was a reunion of sorts as. The southeastern conference sec is an american college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the south central and southeastern united states its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of ten states three additional public land grant universities and one private research university the conference is headquartered in birmingham alabama.