SEC Championship Game explained

SEC Championship Game
Sport:	American football
Conference:	Southeastern Conference
Current Stadium:	Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Current Location:	Atlanta, Georgia
Years:	1992–present
Most Recent:	2023
Current Champion:	Alabama
Most Championships:	Alabama (11)
Television:	ABC
Website:	SECSports.com – Football
Sponsors:	Dr Pepper (1992–present)
All Stadiums:	Legion Field (1992–1993) Georgia Dome (1994–2016) Mercedes-Benz Stadium (2017–present)
All Locations:	Birmingham, Alabama (1992–1993) Atlanta, Georgia (1994–present)

The SEC Championship Game is an annual American football game that has determined the Southeastern Conference's season champion since 1992. For its first 32 seasons, the championship game pitted the SEC East Division regular season champion against the West Division regular season champion. With the SEC eliminating football divisions after the 2023 season, future games will feature the top two teams in the conference standings. Since 2007, the game has typically been played on the first Saturday of December, and the game has been held in Atlanta since 1994, first at the Georgia Dome, and at Mercedes-Benz Stadium since 2017.

Ten of the sixteen current SEC members have played in the SEC Championship Game, with Kentucky, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt being the exceptions. Oklahoma and Texas will play their first SEC seasons in 2024. During the divisional era, the overall series was led 19–13 by the West Division.

While ten SEC members have played in the game, only six have won: Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee of the East Division, and Alabama, Auburn, and LSU of the West Division. Each of these teams has won the championship multiple times.

History

The SEC was the first NCAA conference in any division to hold a football championship game that was exempt from NCAA limits on regular-season contests. Such a game was made possible by two separate developments. The first came in 1987, when the NCAA membership approved a proposal sponsored by the Division II Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association that allowed any conference with at least 12 football members to split into divisions and stage a championship game between the divisional winners. The SEC took advantage of this rule by adding the University of Arkansas and the University of South Carolina in 1992, bringing the conference membership to 12, and splitting into two football divisions.^[1] The format has since been adopted by other conferences to decide their football champion (the first being the Big 12 in 1996).

The first two SEC Championship Games were held at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. From 1994 until 2016, the game was played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.^[2] Following the closure and subsequent demolition of the Georgia Dome in 2017, the SEC Championship Game remained in Atlanta, moving to the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium under a ten-year contract. In November 2023, the SEC signed a five-year extension with Mercedes-Benz Stadium with an additional five-year option.^[3]

With the SEC expanding to 16 teams with the 2024 arrival of Oklahoma and Texas, it announced on June 1, 2023, that it would eliminate its football divisions at that time. Championship games from 2024 forward will feature the top two teams in the conference standings.^[4]

Between 2006 and 2013 the winner of the SEC Championship Game went on to play in the BCS National Championship Game eight straight years, posting a 6–2 record. Since 2014, the SEC Championship Game winner has gone on to appear in the College Football Playoff every season, posting a 8–2 record in the national semi-final and a 4–4 record in the College Football Playoff National Championship.

Results

Results from all SEC Championship games that have been played.^[5] Rankings are from the AP Poll released prior to matchup.

1992	Alabama	28		21	Legion Field • Birmingham, AL	83,091	9.8	CB Antonio Langham, Alabama
1993		13	Florida	28		76,345		QB Terry Dean, Florida
1994		23	Florida	24	Georgia Dome • Atlanta, GA	74,751	10.5	DT Ellis Johnson, Florida
1995		3	Florida	34		71,325	7.2	QB Danny Wuerffel, Florida
1996		30	Florida	45		74,132	7.0	QB Danny Wuerffel, Florida
1997		29	Tennessee	30		74,896		QB Peyton Manning, Tennessee
1998		14	Tennessee	24		74,795		WR Peerless Price, Tennessee
1999	Alabama	34		7		71,500		WR Freddie Milons, Alabama
2000		6	Florida	28		73,427		QB Rex Grossman, Florida
2001	LSU	31		20		74,843	7.0	QB Matt Mauck, LSU
2002		3	Georgia	30		75,835	3.2	QB David Greene, Georgia
2003	LSU	34		13		74,913	4.1	RB Justin Vincent, LSU
2004	Auburn	38		28		74,892	4.8	QB Jason Campbell, Auburn
2005		14	Georgia	34		73,717	3.9	QB D. J. Shockley, Georgia
2006		28	Florida	38		73,374	4.7	WR Percy Harvin, Florida
2007	LSU	21		14		73,832	6.0	QB Ryan Perrilloux, LSU
2008		20	Florida	31		75,892	10.4	QB Tim Tebow, Florida
2009	Alabama	32		13		75,514	11.8	QB Greg McElroy, Alabama
2010	Auburn	56		17			75,802	6.3	QB Cam Newton, Auburn
2011	LSU	42		10		74,515	7.4	CB Tyrann Mathieu, LSU
2012	Alabama	32		28		75,624	10.0	RB Eddie Lacy, Alabama
2013	Auburn	59		42		75,632	8.7	RB Tre Mason, Auburn
2014	Alabama	42		13		73,526	7.7	QB Blake Sims, Alabama
2015	Alabama	29		15		75,320	8.3^[6]	RB Derrick Henry, Alabama
2016	Alabama	54		16		74,632	7.0	LB Reuben Foster, Alabama
2017	Auburn	7	Georgia	28	Mercedes-Benz Stadium • Atlanta, GA	76,532	8.4	LB Roquan Smith, Georgia
	Alabama	35		28		77,141	10.5^[7]	RB Josh Jacobs, Alabama
2019	LSU	37		10		74,150	7.9^[8]	QB Joe Burrow, LSU
2020	Alabama	52		46		16,520	4.9	RB Najee Harris, Alabama
	Alabama	41		24		78,030	8.2	QB Bryce Young, Alabama
2022		30	Georgia	50		74,810	5.6	QB Stetson Bennett, Georgia
2023	Alabama	27		24		78,320	8.9	QB Jalen Milroe, Alabama
						Attendance	TV rating	MVP
2024

Results by team

15	Alabama	West	11	4		1992, 1999, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023	1993, 1994, 1996, 2008
13	Florida	East	7	6		1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2006, 2008	1992, 1999, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2020
11	Georgia	East	4	7		2002, 2005, 2017, 2022	2003, 2011, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023
7	LSU	West	5	2		2001, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2019	2005, 2022
6	Auburn	West	3	3		2004, 2010, 2013	1997, 2000, 2017
5	Tennessee	East	2	3		1997, 1998	2001, 2004, 2007
3	Arkansas	West	0	3			1995, 2002, 2006
2	Missouri	East	0	2			2013, 2014
1	Mississippi State	West	0	1			1998
1	South Carolina	East	0	1			2010

• Kentucky, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Texas, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt have yet to make an appearance in an SEC Championship Game.

Home/away designation

During the championship's divisional era, the team designated as the "home" team alternated between division champions. The designation went to the East champion in even-numbered years and the West champion in odd-numbered years.

After the 2020 contest, the designated "home" team is 16–13 overall in SEC championship games.

In 2009, the West champion, Alabama, was the home team, ending a streak where the SEC West team had worn white jerseys in nine consecutive SEC Championship Games (2000–2008). This was because LSU had represented the West in the previous four seasons that the West Division champion was the "home" team, and LSU traditionally chooses to wear white jerseys for home games. Additionally, for the next three years (2010–2012), the East Division representative wore their home jerseys because in 2011, LSU again represented the West; this happened again from 2018 to 2020 since LSU represented the West in 2019.

Rematches

While SEC schools played every other member of their own division during the conference's divisional era, they did not play every member of the opposite division. With the end of divisional play, each SEC member will play only eight of the 15 other teams in the conference. Thus, the SEC Championship Game is not guaranteed to be a rematch of a regular-season game. The SEC Championship game has featured a rematch of a regular-season game a total of seven times (1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2017). The team which won the regular-season game is 5–2 in the rematches, the exceptions being 2001 and 2017.

Common matchups

Matchups that have occurred more than once:

10	Florida	Alabama	Alabama 6–4	1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2008, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2020
5	Georgia	LSU	LSU 3–2	2003, 2005, 2011, 2019, 2022
4	Georgia	Alabama	Alabama 4–0	2012, 2018, 2021, 2023
2	Florida	Arkansas	Florida 2–0	1995, 2006
2	Tennessee	Auburn	Tied 1–1	1997, 2004
2	Tennessee	LSU	LSU 2–0	2001, 2007

Selection criteria

Division standings were based on each team's overall conference record. The SEC Commissioner's Regulations requires each football team play all eight conference games in a season in order to be eligible to compete for a divisional title and play in the SEC Championship Game. When two or more teams tie for the best record in their division, each team is recognized as a divisional co-champion. Tiebreakers are used to determine who will represent the division in the championship game.^[9]

Two-team tie-breaker procedure

1. Head-to-head competition between the two tied teams.
2. Records of the tied teams within the division.
3. Records against the team within the division with the best overall (divisional and non-divisional) conference record and proceeding through the division. Multiple ties within the division will be broken from first to last.
4. Complete record vs. all non-divisional opponents.
5. Complete record vs. all common non-divisional teams if there be any.
6. Record vs. common non-divisional opponent (if there be any) with the best overall conference (divisional and non-divisional) record and proceeding through other common non-divisional teams based on their order of finish within their division.
7. Best cumulative conference winning percentage of non-divisional opponents
8. Coin flip of the tied teams

NOTE: Although all division rivals meet during the season and NCAA overtime is played, the SEC has provisions in case a game ends in a tie, which is possible under NCAA Rule 3–3–3 (c.2) and (d), Suspending the Game, and Commissioner's Regulations (including a tie game after the end of three periods, at the point the game is suspended in the fourth period, or end of regulation (3-3-3-d) or if one team had played their overtime period but the opponent had not played, when the game reaches the conference curfew of 1:30 a.m. local time), or if the two tied teams did not play an official game because of weather (including a game that ends before the end of three periods), which is possible because numerous conference teams have had games affected by hurricanes but also lightning. As such, SEC rules, written before overtime was implemented in regular season play, still contain the remaining procedures if those circumstances were to happen.

Three or more-team procedure

(Once the tie has been reduced to two teams, go to the two-team tie-breaker format.)

1. Combined head-to-head record among the tied teams.
2. Record of the tied teams within the division.
3. Records against the team within the division with the best overall (divisional and non-divisional) Conference record and proceeding through the division. Multiple ties within the division will be broken from first to last.
4. Complete record vs. non-division teams.
5. Complete record vs. all common non-divisional teams.
6. Record vs. common non-divisional team with the best overall Conference (divisional and non-divisional) record and proceeding through other common non-divisional teams based on their order of finish within their division.
7. Best cumulative Conference winning percentage of non-divisional opponents (Note: If two teams' non-divisional opponents have the same cumulative record, then the two-team tiebreaker procedures apply. If four teams are tied, and three teams' non-divisional opponents have the same cumulative record, the three-team tiebreaker procedures will be used beginning with #1
8. Coin flip of the tied teams with the team with the odd result being the representative (Example: If there are two teams with tails and one team with heads, the team with heads is the representative)

Winner's bowl performance

Currently the SEC champion plays in the Sugar Bowl unless it has been selected to play in a College Football Playoff semi-final bowl, or if the Sugar Bowl is hosting a CFP semi-final and the SEC champion either does not qualify for the CFP or has a seeding that prevents it from appearing in the Sugar Bowl.^[10] In the SEC Championship Game era, eleven winners of the game have gone on to win the national title (outright or shared), with thirteen SEC teams winning national titles overall, including seven consecutive titles from the 2006–2012 seasons.

There are three occasions when the SEC champion advanced to the BCS or CFP but lost to another SEC team which won the national championship:

In 2011, LSU won the SEC Championship Game and advanced to the BCS National Championship Game which they lost 21–0 to fellow SEC West member Alabama.

In 2017, Georgia won the SEC Championship Game and advanced to the College Football Playoff, defeating Oklahoma in the semifinal and advancing to the CFP final game, which they lost 26–23 in overtime to SEC member Alabama.

In 2021, Alabama won the SEC Championship game and advanced to the College Football Playoff, defeating Cincinnati in the semifinal and advancing to the CFP final game, which they lost 33–18 to Georgia in a rematch of the SEC title game. It marked the 1st time that the loser of the conference championship would go onto winning the national championship game in the same season.

Rankings are from the AP Poll at the time the game was played.

Season	SEC champ	Result	Opponent	Opp. conference	Bowl game	National champion
1992	No. 2 Alabama	W 34–13	No. 1 Miami	Big East	1993 Sugar Bowl^[11]	Alabama
1993	No. 8 Florida	W 41–7	No. 3 West Virginia	Big East	1994 Sugar Bowl	Florida State
1994	No. 5 Florida	L 17–23	No. 7 Florida State	ACC	1995 Sugar Bowl	Nebraska
1995	No. 2 Florida	L 24–62	No. 1 Nebraska	Big 8	1996 Fiesta Bowl	Nebraska
1996	No. 3 Florida	W 52–20	No. 1 Florida State	ACC	1997 Sugar Bowl	Florida
1997	No. 3 Tennessee	L 17–42	No. 2 Nebraska	Big 12	1998 Orange Bowl	Nebraska, Michigan^[12]
1998	No. 1 Tennessee	W 23–16	No. 2 Florida State	ACC	1999 Fiesta Bowl^[13]	Tennessee
1999	No. 5 Alabama	L 34–35 ^OT	No. 8 Michigan	Big Ten	2000 Orange Bowl^[14]	Florida State
2000	No. 7 Florida	L 20–37	No. 2 Miami	Big East	2001 Sugar Bowl	Oklahoma
2001	No. 12 LSU	W 47–34	No. 7 Illinois	Big Ten	2002 Sugar Bowl	Miami
2002	No. 4 Georgia	W 26–13	No. 16 Florida State	ACC	2003 Sugar Bowl	Ohio State
2003	No. 3 LSU	W 21–14	No. 2 Oklahoma	Big 12	2004 Sugar Bowl	LSU, USC^[15] ^[16]
2004	No. 3 Auburn	W 16–13	No. 9 Virginia Tech	ACC	2005 Sugar Bowl	USC^[17]
2005	No. 8 Georgia	L 35–38	No. 13 West Virginia	Big East	2006 Sugar Bowl	Texas
2006	No. 2 Florida	W 41–14	No. 1 Ohio State	Big Ten	2007 BCS Champ. Game	Florida
2007	No. 2 LSU	W 38–24	No. 1 Ohio State	Big Ten	2008 BCS Champ. Game	LSU
2008	No. 2 Florida	W 24–14	No. 1 Oklahoma	Big 12	2009 BCS Champ. Game	Florida
2009	No. 1 Alabama	W 37–21	No. 2 Texas	Big 12	2010 BCS Champ. Game	Alabama
2010	No. 1 Auburn	W 22–19	No. 2 Oregon	Pac-10	2011 BCS Champ. Game	Auburn
2011	No. 1 LSU	L 0–21	No. 2 Alabama	SEC	2012 BCS Champ. Game	Alabama
2012	No. 2 Alabama	W 42–14	No. 1 Notre Dame	Independent	2013 BCS Champ. Game	Alabama
2013	No. 2 Auburn	L 31–34	No. 1 Florida State	ACC	2014 BCS Champ. Game	Florida State
2014	No. 1 Alabama	L 35–42	No. 4 Ohio State	Big Ten	2015 Sugar Bowl (CFP Semi-final)	Ohio State
2015	No. 2 Alabama	W 38–0	No. 3 Michigan State	Big Ten	2015 Cotton Bowl (CFP Semi-final)	Alabama
		W 45–40	No. 1 Clemson	ACC	2016 CFP National Championship
2016	No. 1 Alabama	W 24–7	No. 4 Washington	Pac-12	2016 Peach Bowl (CFP Semi-final)	Clemson
		L 31–35	No. 2 Clemson	ACC	2017 CFP National Championship
2017	No. 3 Georgia	W 54–48 ^2OT	No. 2 Oklahoma	Big 12	2018 Rose Bowl (CFP Semi-final)	Alabama
		L 23–26 ^OT	No. 4 Alabama	SEC	2018 CFP National Championship
2018	No. 1 Alabama	W 45–34	No. 4 Oklahoma	Big 12	2018 Orange Bowl (CFP Semi-final)	Clemson
		L 16–44	No. 2 Clemson	ACC	2019 CFP National Championship
2019	No. 1 LSU	W 63–28	No. 4 Oklahoma	Big 12	2019 Peach Bowl (CFP Semi-final)	LSU
		W 42–25	No. 3 Clemson	ACC	2020 CFP National Championship
2020	No. 1 Alabama	W 31–14	No. 4 Notre Dame	ACC	2021 Rose Bowl (CFP Semifinal)	Alabama
		W 52–24	No. 3 Ohio State	Big 10	2021 CFP National Championship
2021	No. 1 Alabama	W 27–6	No. 4 Cincinnati	American	2021 Cotton Bowl (CFP Semifinal)	Georgia
		L 18–33	No. 3 Georgia	SEC	2022 CFP National Championship
2022	No. 1 Georgia	W 42–41	No. 4 Ohio State	Big 10	2022 Peach Bowl (CFP Semifinal)	Georgia
		W 65–7	No. 3 TCU	Big 12	2023 CFP National Championship
2023	No. 5^[18] Alabama	L 20–27 ^OT	No. 1 Michigan	Big 10	2024 Rose Bowl (CFP Semifinal)	Michigan

Runner-up's bowl performance

Rankings are from the AP Poll at the time the game was played.

Season	SEC runner-up	Result	Opponent	Opp. conference	Bowl game
1992	No. 14 Florida	W 27–10	No. 12 NC State	ACC	1992 Gator Bowl
1993	No. 18 Alabama	W 24–10	No. 12 North Carolina	ACC	1993 Gator Bowl
1994	No. 6 Alabama	W 24–17	No. 13 Ohio State	Big Ten	1995 Citrus Bowl
1995	No. 24 Arkansas	L 10–20	North Carolina	ACC	1995 Carquest Bowl
1996	No. 16 Alabama	W 17–14	No. 15 Michigan	Big Ten	1997 Outback Bowl
1997	No. 13 Auburn	W 21–17	Clemson	ACC	1998 Peach Bowl
1998	No. 25 Mississippi State	L 11–38	No. 20 Texas	Big 12	1999 Cotton Bowl
1999	No. 10 Florida	L 34–37	No. 9 Michigan State	Big Ten	2000 Citrus Bowl
2000	No. 20 Auburn	L 28–31	No. 17 Michigan	Big Ten	2001 Citrus Bowl
2001	No. 8 Tennessee	W 45–17	No. 17 Michigan	Big Ten	2002 Citrus Bowl
2002	No. 25 Arkansas	L 14–29	Minnesota	Big Ten	2002 Music City Bowl
2003	No. 11 Georgia	W 34–27	No. 12 Purdue	Big Ten	2004 Capital One Bowl
2004	No. 15 Tennessee	W 38–7	No. 22 Texas A&M	Big 12	2005 Cotton Bowl
2005	No. 10 LSU	W 40–3	No. 9 Miami	ACC	2005 Peach Bowl
2006	No. 12 Arkansas	L 14–17	No. 6 Wisconsin	Big Ten	2007 Capital One Bowl
2007	No. 16 Tennessee	W 21–17	No. 18 Wisconsin	Big Ten	2008 Outback Bowl
2008	No. 4 Alabama	L 17–31	No. 6 Utah	Mountain West	2009 Sugar Bowl
2009	No. 5 Florida	W 51–24	No. 4 Cincinnati	Big East	2010 Sugar Bowl
2010	No. 19 South Carolina	L 17–26	No. 23 Florida State	ACC	2010 Chick-fil-A Bowl
2011	No. 18 Georgia	L 30–33 ^3OT	No. 12 Michigan State	Big Ten	2012 Outback Bowl
2012	No. 7 Georgia	W 45–31	No. 16 Nebraska	Big Ten	2013 Capital One Bowl
2013	No. 9 Missouri	W 41–31	No. 13 Oklahoma State	Big 12	2014 Cotton Bowl Classic
2014	No. 16 Missouri	W 33–17	No. 25 Minnesota	Big Ten	2015 Citrus Bowl
2015	No. 19 Florida	L 7–41	No. 14 Michigan	Big Ten	2016 Citrus Bowl
2016	No. 20 Florida	W 30–3	No. 21 Iowa	Big Ten	2017 Outback Bowl
2017	No. 7 Auburn	L 27–34	No. 10 UCF	American	2018 Peach Bowl
2018	No. 5 Georgia	L 21–28	No. 15 Texas	Big 12	2019 Sugar Bowl
2019	No. 5 Georgia	W 26–14	No. 8 Baylor	Big 12	2020 Sugar Bowl
2020	No. 7 Florida	L 20–55	No. 6 Oklahoma	Big 12	2020 Cotton Bowl Classic
2021	No. 3 Georgia	W 34–11	No. 2 Michigan	Big Ten	2021 Orange Bowl (CFP Semifinal)
		W 33–18	No. 1 Alabama	SEC	2022 CFP National Championship
2022	No. 16 LSU	W 63–7	Purdue	Big Ten	2023 Citrus Bowl
2023	No. 6 Georgia	W 63–3	No. 4 Florida State	ACC	2023 Orange Bowl

Game records

Most points scored	59, Auburn vs. Missouri	2013
Most points scored (losing team)	46, Florida vs. Alabama	2020
Most points scored (both teams)	101, Auburn vs. Missouri	2013
Most points scored in a half	35, LSU vs. Georgia – 2nd half 2011	2011
Most points scored in a half (both teams)	55, Auburn (28) vs Missouri (27) – 1st half	2013
Fewest points scored	3, Arkansas vs. Florida 3, Arkansas vs. Georgia	1995 2002
Fewest points scored (winning team)	21, LSU vs. Tennessee	2007
Largest margin of victory	39, Auburn vs. South Carolina	2010
First downs	33, Alabama vs. Florida	2020
Rushing yards	545, Auburn vs. Missouri	2013
Passing yards	502, LSU vs. Georgia	2022
Total yards	677, Auburn vs. Missouri	2013
Most punts	10, Alabama 10, Auburn 10, Mississippi State	1992 1997 1998
Fewest punts	1, Auburn	2010
Total offense	461, Bryce Young (421 pass, 40 rush) (Alabama vs. Georgia)	2021
Touchdowns responsible for	6, Danny Wuerffel (Florida vs. Alabama) 6, Cam Newton (Auburn vs. South Carolina)	1996 2010
Rushing yards	304, Tre Mason (Auburn vs. Missouri)	2013
Rushing TDs	4, Tre Mason (Auburn vs. Missouri)	2013
Passing yards	421, Bryce Young (Alabama vs. Georgia)	2021
Passing TDs	6, Danny Wuerffel (Florida vs. Alabama)	1996
Receptions	15, DeVonta Smith (Alabama vs. Florida)	2020
Receiving yards	217, Darvin Adams (Auburn vs. South Carolina)	2010
Receiving TDs	3, Reidel Anthony (Florida vs. Alabama) 3, Najee Harris (Alabama vs. Florida)	1996 2020
Tackles	18, Omar Gaither (Tennessee vs. Auburn)	2004
Sacks	2.0, done ten timesLast by Christian Harris & Will Anderson Jr. (Alabama vs. Florida)	2020
Interceptions	2, Michael Gilmore (Florida vs. Alabama) 2, Tommy Johnson (Alabama vs. Florida) 2, Marcus Spencer (Alabama vs. Florida) 2, Lito Sheppard (Florida vs. Auburn) 2, Derek Stingley Jr. (LSU vs. Georgia)	1993 1993 1999 2000 2019
Punts	10, Bryne Diehl (Alabama vs. Florida) 10, Jaret Holmes (Auburn vs. Tennessee)	1992 1997
Field goals made	3, done five timesLast by Cade York (LSU vs. Georgia)	2019
Touchdown run	87 yards, Justin Vincent (LSU vs. Georgia)	2003
Touchdown pass	94 yards, Freddie Kitchens to Michael Vaughn (Alabama vs. Florida)	1996
Kickoff return	50 yards, Lennon Creer (Tennessee vs. LSU)	2007
Punt return	85 yards, Antonio Callaway (Florida vs. Alabama)	2015
Interception return	77 yards, Jayson Bray (Auburn vs. Tennessee)	1997
Fumble return	95 yards, Ben Hanks (Florida vs. Arkansas)	1995
Punt	68 yards, Jake Camarda (Georgia vs. Alabama)	2021
Field goal	52 yards, Cody Parkey (Auburn vs. Missouri)	2013
Game attendance	83,091, Alabama vs. Florida	1992

See also

• List of NCAA Division I FBS conference championship games

Notes and References

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3. Web site: Low . Chris . SEC football title game staying in Atlanta through at least 2031 . ESPN . May 23, 2024 . November 30, 2023.
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8. Web site: 2019-12-09. Rout sinks SEC title game, but ratings still big. 2020-12-20. Sports Media Watch. en-US.
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10. Web site: nokiasugarbowl.com. www.nokiasugarbowl.com.
11. [Bowl Coalition]
12. Nebraska shared the 1997 NCAA title with Michigan
13. [BCS National Championship Game]
14. Alabama took the spot of ACC champion Florida State in the Orange Bowl, as the Seminoles were selected to play in the BCS national championship game in the Sugar Bowl.
15. Web site: Maisel: Power to the people. 14 July 2004. ESPN.com.
16. Web site: LSU, USC split national championship - Sports . 2008-12-07 . 2008-12-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081208224149/http://media.www.mtsusidelines.com/media/storage/paper202/news/2004/01/14/Sports/Lsu-Usc.Split.National.Championship-580477.shtml . dead .
17. Southern California won the BCS Championship but the title was vacated following an investigation into improper payments to various players. USC retained its AP National Championship.
18. Alabama was ranked #4 in the final CFP Poll ahead of AP #4 Florida State.