re: Worst to First overall SEC programs

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The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) has recognized the University of Florida as being among the top ten NCAA Division I athletic programs in the country every year since 1983–84.

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Only one other Division I athletic program (Stanford) has matched that feat, and Florida has achieved this record while fielding fewer sports teams than many of the other perennially top-ranked collegiate athletic programs.

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Through the end of the winter 2012–13 sports season, Florida's has won 208 SEC and two ALC team championships. [Not including the Gator's 45 SEC tournment titles]. The University of Tennessee has won the next highest number of SEC team championships, with 153.

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In the 39-year history of the awards, Florida has won nineteen Women's Trophies, sixteen Men's Trophies, and twenty-two Overall SEC All-Sports Trophies (including twenty-two of the last twenty-five). The Gators are the only SEC sports program to earn all three SEC all-sports trophies in a single year, and have swept all three trophies twelve times.

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249 individual NCAA national championships

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Florida's varsity athletic teams have won twenty-nine national team championships - including 3 in football and 2 in basketball.

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