Volunteer State Athletic Conference

The Volunteer State Athletic Conference (VSAC) was a

college athletic conference which was predominantly for smaller colleges in the U.S. state of Tennessee.^[1]

History

The VSAC was organized in the 1940s and dissolved in the early 1980s. Member schools were in the

Milligan College, Tusculum University, Tennessee Wesleyan University, and Union University, as well as the now-defunct Lambuth University

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The conference dissolved when the institutions in the eastern portion of the state seceded to form the Tennessee Valley Athletic Conference (TVAC). Those in the western part of the state formed in turn the Tennessee Collegiate Athletic Conference (TCAC). The Appalachian Athletic Conference is the direct successor of the TVAC, and was known as such until the mid-1990s when the addition of schools in Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina necessitated the name change. The TranSouth Athletic Conference, which operated from 1996 to 2013, is sometimes regarded as something of a successor to the TCAC. Sponsorship of football by the conference ended after the 1962 season, over two decades before the conference dissolved with regard to its other sports.

Other founding members of the VSAC included

Tennessee Technological University; these schools all left the VSAC to join the Ohio Valley Conference. As of 2019, Austin Peay and Tennessee Tech remain in the OVC, while East Tennessee State is in the Southern Conference and Middle Tennessee in Conference USA

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Football champions

1955 – Middle Tennessee
1956 – Middle Tennessee
1957 – Middle Tennessee
1958 – Unknown
1959 – Unknown
1960 –
Tennessee–Martin
1961 –
Tennessee–Martin
1962 –
Tennessee–Martin

References

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Volunteer State Athletic Conference

History

Dissolution

Football champions

See also

References