The acronym SWAC primarily stands for the Southwestern Athletic Conference , which is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. It consists mainly of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States and participates in NCAA Division I sports, with football competing in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS)
. Aside from this prominent meaning, SWAC can also refer to various other terms depending on the context, such as:
- Spatially Weighted Average Concentration
- Special Weapons and Communications (amateur radio)
- Secure Worker Access Consortium, a program for identity verification and security compliance
- Southern Whines And Cheats (informal/slang)
- The Surface Warfare Advanced Course
and many more, as the acronym has multiple definitions across different fields
. However, the most widely recognized and significant use of SWAC relates to the Southwestern Athletic Conference in collegiate sports
