How well do you know the SEC?

As football fans know, the acronym SEC stands for the mighty Southeastern Conference. However, normal people might know a very different SEC — the Securities and Exchange Commission. These two are very different.

Every now and then you’ll run across a headline that could feasibly cause you to mix up your SECs. (SEO tip for SEC football bloggers hoping to improve their audience on Wall Street.)

See if you can determine which of these SEC headlines are about finance and which are about football. It’s tougher than it looks.

1. The Best SEC Money Can Buy

2. Retiring White House Prosecutor Says the SEC is Corrupt

3. SEC Employee’s Goodbye Party Leads to More than Cake and Farewells

4. Former SEC Official to Join KKR as Compliance Chief

5. Suspended by SEC — Sell Your Marijuana Stocks (While You Still Can)

6. SEC Advisory Committee Wants Tighter Crowd-Funding Rules

7. SEC’s New Investor Advocate Says He Has Broad Authority

8. The SEC Catches up to Social Media

9. Mark Cuban Says SEC Plays Unfair with Evidence

10. SEC Charges ex-UGA Coach Jim Donnan with Fraud

11. SEC eyes test that may lead to shift away from ‘dark pools’

12. SEC official: What’s hurting the ‘little guy’

13. SEC: ‘A Tollbooth on the Bankster Turnpike’

14. CNN, SEC scorched, how we read now

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What did you get?

As much as “Suspended by the SEC — Sell Your Marijuana” screams SEC football, not a single one of these headlines has anything to do with the gridiron.

So the moral of the story: Don’t believe everything you read, kids. Or at the very least, read past the headline.