FBS conference belt
The SIAA Belt
A companion lineage restricted to SIAA: the belt passes to whoever beats the holder, exactly like the real belt, but only games between two SIAA members COUNT — and only for the seasons both sides were actually in SIAA at the time. This belt is retired. Miami held it when SIAA played its last game on October 4, 1940, and the reign is closed as of June 30, 1942: the SIAA, reduced to small colleges after the Southern Conference split off in 1921, disbanded in 1942.
| # | Team | Reign | Length | Def. | Won it | Lost it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clemson | October 4, 1902 – October 15, 1904 | 2 yrs, 11 days | 7 | Established it (first game on record) | lost to Auburn |
| 2 | Auburn | October 15, 1904 – November 4, 1905 | 1 yr, 20 days | 3 | beat Clemson 5–0 | lost to Vanderbilt |
| 3 | Vanderbilt | November 4, 1905 – November 15, 1913 | 8 yrs, 11 days | 20 | beat Auburn 54–0 | lost to Auburn |
| 4 | Auburn | November 15, 1913 – November 13, 1915 | 1 yr, 363 days | 11 | beat Vanderbilt 14–6 | lost to Vanderbilt |
| 5 | Vanderbilt | November 13, 1915 – November 11, 1916 | 364 days | 2 | beat Auburn 17–0 | lost to Tennessee |
| 6 | Tennessee | November 11, 1916 – October 18, 1919 | 2 yrs, 341 days | 2 | beat Vanderbilt 10–6 | lost to Mississippi State |
| 7 | Mississippi State | October 18, 1919 – November 15, 1919 | 28 days | 3 | beat Tennessee 6–0 | lost to Auburn |
| 8 | Auburn | November 15, 1919 – October 30, 1920 | 350 days | 4 | beat Mississippi State 7–0 | lost to Georgia |
| 9 | Georgia | October 30, 1920 – November 27, 1921 | 1 yr, 28 days | 9 | beat Auburn 7–0 | — belt retired — |
| 10 | Alabama | December 3, 1921 – December 3, 1921 | 0 days | 0 | Re-established it (no SIAA games on record between 1921 and 1921) | — belt retired — |
| 11 | Furman | October 19, 1922 – October 11, 1924 | 1 yr, 358 days | 4 | Re-established it (no SIAA games on record between 1921 and 1922) | lost to Mercer |
| 12 | Mercer | October 11, 1924 – October 17, 1925 | 1 yr, 6 days | 3 | beat Furman 23–0 | lost to Chattanooga |
| 13 | Chattanooga | October 17, 1925 – November 8, 1930 | 5 yrs, 22 days | 2 | beat Mercer 12–7 | — belt retired — |
| 14 | Furman | October 27, 1932 – November 28, 1935 | 3 yrs, 32 days | 7 | Re-established it (no SIAA games on record between 1930 and 1932) | — belt retired — |
| 15 | Miami | November 6, 1936 – June 30, 1942 | 5 yrs, 236 days | 2 | Re-established it (no SIAA games on record between 1935 and 1936) | — belt retired — |
No reigns match “.”
Membership is judged season by season from every game a team played, so realignment moves a team’s games with it. A holder that stays in SIAA keeps the belt through any stretch without a game against another member; a holder that leaves vacates the belt on its last game as a member, and it reverts to the most recent earlier holder that is a member of the season it left for. If no one is left to inherit it, the belt retires with its last holder. Days count the offseason; switch to games to measure a reign by belt games only.