South Atlantic Athletic Conference

The South Atlantic Athletic Conference (SAAC) was an intercollegiate athletic conference of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Founded around 1913, the conference changed its name from the Georgia-Carolina Intercollegiate Athletic Association to the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SAIAA) in 1928.^[1] It was also known as the South Atlantic Athletic Association (SAAA) and the South Atlantic Conference. The conference's members were located in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

At the conference's annual meeting on December 21, 1935, held at Orangeburg, South Carolina, two new members were admitted: Livingstone College of Salisbury, North Carolina and Morristown College on Morristown, Tennessee. At that meeting, South Carolina State College formally withdrew from the conference.^[2] In January 1940, Allen University, Georgia State College, Morris College, and Paine College left the conference and joined Fort Valley State College to form the Southeastern Athletic Association—later known as the Southeastern Athletic Conference (SEAC).^[3]