Southeastern Conference: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 16 Southeastern Conference member websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 16
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Members of the Southeastern Conference (NCAA Division I), from the NCAA membership directory. Conferences change membership every year; this list follows the directory's current academic year.

B 89

Average botability score of 16 fully scanned Southeastern Conference member sites

9th

of 96 conferences, ranked by average botability score

16 of 16

Southeastern conference member sites fully scanned

B 89

Average botability score of all 2,687 fully scanned education sites

How Southeastern Conference botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 16 fully scanned Southeastern Conference member sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

Distribution of 16 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.

  • Southeastern Conference average
  • All education average
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How Southeastern Conference botability scores are distributed
Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 290
30 to 390
40 to 490
50 to 590
60 to 691
70 to 790
80 to 894
90 to 10011

Southeastern Conference by botability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Southeastern Conference: 16 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Southeastern ConferenceA (90 to 100): 69% (11 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 25% (4 sites)D to F (below 70): 6% (1 sites)
  2. All education sitesA (90 to 100): 71% (1,899 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 25% (660 sites)D to F (below 70): 5% (128 sites)
  • A (90 to 100)
  • B to C (70 to 89)
  • D to F (below 70)
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Southeastern Conference by botability grade, compared with all education sites
GroupA (90 to 100)B to C (70 to 89)D to F (below 70)
Southeastern Conference69% (11)25% (4)6% (1)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Southeastern Conference member sites by botability score

#1 in Southeastern Conference · U.S. education rank 1

Texas A&M University-College Station

A 100 botability

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability A
  • Security B
  • Usability D
  • Readability A

#1 in Southeastern Conference · U.S. education rank 1

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville

A 100 botability

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability A
  • Security B
  • Usability B
  • Readability A

#1 in Southeastern Conference · U.S. education rank 1

University of Kentucky

A 100 botability

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability A
  • Security B
  • Usability F
  • Readability A

Most common botability failures among Southeastern Conference member sites

Share of the 16 fully scanned Southeastern Conference member sites failing each check. A site can fail more than one check. Each check links to the sites failing it, or to its standard when we have no list yet.

  1. Sitemap in robots.txt44% (7 of 16 sites)
  2. Link text31% (5 of 16 sites)
  3. Sitemap status13% (2 of 16 sites)
  4. Sitemap XML13% (2 of 16 sites)
  5. Robots valid6% (1 of 16 sites)
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Most common botability failures among Southeastern Conference member sites
CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt44%7
Link text31%5
Sitemap status13%2
Sitemap XML13%2
Robots valid6%1

What each check means

  • Sitemap in robots.txt. The robots.txt file links to the sitemap. Search engines take longer to find your pages.
  • Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. Users cannot tell where links go.
  • Sitemap status. The sitemap file loads and returns a successful response. Search engines cannot find all your pages.
  • Sitemap XML. The sitemap file uses the required XML format. Search engines cannot read your sitemap.
  • Robots valid. The site's robots.txt file is written correctly so search engines can follow it. Search engines ignore crawling rules they cannot read.

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Southeastern Conference members by botability score

Southeastern Conference members ranked by botability score
Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 tamu.edu
Texas A&M University-College Station U.S. rank 1
11 of 11 checks pass A
1 utk.edu
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville U.S. rank 1
11 of 11 checks pass A
1 uky.edu
University of Kentucky U.S. rank 1
9 of 9 checks pass A
2 auburn.edu
Auburn University U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
2 lsu.edu
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
2 msstate.edu
Mississippi State University U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
2 utexas.edu
The University of Texas at Austin U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
2 uark.edu
University of Arkansas U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
2 ufl.edu
University of Florida U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
2 olemiss.edu
University of Mississippi U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
2 missouri.edu
University of Missouri-Columbia U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
3 vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University U.S. rank 3
8 of 9 checks pass B
4 ua.edu
The University of Alabama U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B
4 uga.edu
University of Georgia U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B
4 sc.edu
University of South Carolina-Columbia U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B
5 ou.edu
University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus U.S. rank 14
6 of 9 checks pass D

About this data

ScanGov scans the homepage of each college and university site on our higher education list. Scores come from the checks in the ScanGov standards. Sites were scanned between 10/27/2026 and 11/8/2026. Each site's report shows its own scan date. A site counts as fully scanned when its homepage loaded and sent us its page content. Averages, grade shares, failure rates, and ranks use fully scanned sites only. Grades follow the ScanGov grade scale. Rank follows the ScanGov ranking method. The full dataset, with every county's raw results, is in the ScanGov data repository.

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