The SEC was also the first NCAA Division I conference to hold a championship game ( and award a subsequent title ) for college football, and was one of the founding members of the Bowl Championship Series ( BCS ).

Also in 1992, the SEC was the first conference to receive permission from the NCAA to sponsor an annual football championship game, featuring the winners of the conference's Eastern and Western divisions.

The Sugar Bowl hosts the Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) champion unless ( under the current BCS alignment ) the team is selected to play in the national championship game ; in that case the Sugar Bowl can select a team at-large from any conference as the host team.

Richardson's basketball teams challenged for the SEC and National Championships regularly during the 1990s, making three trips to the Final Four and two trips to the championship game while compiling a record of 389 – 169 (. 697 ) in his 17 years as the head coach.

He did so in 2009, the same year the Tide won their 22nd SEC championship.

The 1976 Florida Gators were 6 – 1 and ranked No. 10 coming into the game, and again seeking to secure their first SEC football championship.

After suffering many a heartbreaking defeat to the Bulldogs with a conference championship at stake, coach Galen Hall's 1984 Florida Gators entered the contest undefeated in the SEC.

Georgia finished the 2002 season 13 – 1 and won the SEC championship, but the defeat by the Gators almost certainly cost the Bulldogs a chance to play for the BCS National Championship.

In addition, there are stones laid in the immediate pathway leading to the stadium recognizing all of Alabama's SEC and national championship teams throughout the years.

In the corner with 85 seconds ..."--- calling David Greene's touchdown pass to Michael Johnson as Georgia defeated Auburn in 2002, clinching the Bulldogs ' first-ever SEC Eastern Division championship.

Later that night, the conference decided to move the 2008 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament to the smaller Coliseum, including the championship game.

In addition, South Carolina won the 2000, 2002 and 2011 SEC regular season championships and the 2004 SEC Tournament championship.

On the day of the 2007 SEC championship game, Kirk Herbstreit falsely reported on ESPN's College GameDay that Les Miles had accepted an offer to succeed Lloyd Carr as the head coach at the University of Michigan.

In his single year as a Gator golfer, Sanders and the team won a Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) championship and earned a sixth-place finish at the NCAA championship tournament — the Gators ' best national championship finish until that time.

He led Georgia Tech to two Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) championships ( 1951 and 1952 ) and one national championship in 1952.

As a junior letterman in 2000, Davis was a member of the Gators ' Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) championship team.

Auburn completed the 2004 football season with an unblemished 13 – 0 record winning the SEC championship, their first conference title since 1989 and their first outright title since 1987.

Auburn completed the 2010 football season with a perfect record of 13-0 winning the SEC championship when they defeated the University of South Carolina 56-17 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta Georgia, which set an SEC Championship Game record for most points scored and largest margin of victory.

The team started in 1993 and after some growing pains is now a constant player in the SEC Conference championship race.

) In his four seasons at Alabama as a reserve defensive back, the Tide won four SEC titles and the 1973 UPI ( Coaches ' Poll ) national championship, though they lost the 1973 Sugar Bowl to Notre Dame on New Year's Eve.

The pair remain close although Cox was chairman of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission until he was forced to resign as chairman of the SEC on January 20, 2009 due to multiple allegations of fraud.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act was passed in the US in July 2010, and contains provisions which require hedge fund advisers with US $ 150 million or more in assets to register with the SEC.

The SEC stated that it was adopting a " risk-based approach " to monitoring hedge funds as part of its evolving regulatory regimen for the burgeoning industry.

This will significantly increase the number of hedge funds under state supervision, as the threshold for SEC regulation was previously US $ 30 million.

Aguirre was fired from his job with the SEC when, as lead investigator of insider trading allegations against Pequot Capital Management, he tried to interview John Mack, then being considered for chief executive officer at Morgan Stanley.

The Judiciary Committee and the US Senate Finance Committee issued a scathing report in 2007, which found that Aguirre had been illegally fired in reprisal for his pursuit of Mack and in 2009, the SEC was forced to re-open its case against Pequot.

Pequot settled with the SEC for US $ 28 million and Arthur J. Samberg, chief investment officer of Pequot, was barred from working as an investment advisor.

* Aiding and abetting another person's failure to file an accurate 13d statement with the SEC, since the schedule was not amended to reflect an understanding that any loss would be made up.

The SEC case was sparked in 2004 after David Bazzetta, a former auditor at then DaimlerChrysler Corp, filed a whistleblower complaint after he was fired for raising questions about bank accounts controlled by Mercedes-Benz units in South America.

The SEC was created by Section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ( now codified as and commonly referred to as the 1934 Act ).

The SEC was established by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 as an independent, quasi-judicial regulatory agency during the Great Depression that followed the Crash of 1929.

The main reason for the creation of the SEC was to regulate the stock market and prevent corporate abuses relating to the offering and sale of securities and corporate reporting.

The SEC was given the power to license and regulate stock exchanges, the companies whose securities traded on them, and the brokers and dealers who conducted the trading.

For the first year of the law's enactment, the enforcement of the statute rested with the Federal Trade Commission, but this power was transferred to the SEC following its creation in 1934.

The SEC, in a state of flux after its chairman was forced to resign his post, began to audit all the political activities of publicly traded companies.

However, the President does not possess the power to fire the appointed commissioners, a provision that was made to ensure the independence of the SEC.

The main reason for the creation of the SEC was to regulate the stock market and prevent corporate abuses relating to the offering and sale of securities and corporate reporting.

The SEC was given the power to license and regulate stock exchanges, the companies whose securities traded on them, and the brokers and dealers who conducted the trading.

Shortly thereafter, the company ’ s audit committee and board of directors were notified of the fraud and acted swiftly: Sullivan was fired, Myers resigned, Arthur Andersen withdrew its audit opinion for 2001, and the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) launched an investigation into these matters on June 26, 2002 ( see accounting scandals ).

Under the bankruptcy reorganization agreement, the company paid $ 750 million to the SEC in cash and stock in the new MCI, which was intended to be paid to wronged investors.

It also required an SEC study and report to better understand the extent of usage of such instruments and whether accounting principles adequately addressed these instruments ; the SEC report was issued June 15, 2005.

Another extension was granted by the SEC for the outside auditor assessment until years ending after December 15, 2009.