SEC Championship Game | |
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Sport | American football |
Conference | Southeastern Conference |
Current stadium | Mercedes-Benz Stadium |
Current location | Atlanta, Georgia |
Played | 1992–present |
Last contest | 2023 |
Current champion | Alabama |
Most championships | Alabama (11) |
TV partner(s) | ABC[a] |
Official website | SECSports.com – Football |
Sponsors | |
Dr Pepper (1992–present) | |
Host stadiums | |
Legion Field (1992–1993) Georgia Dome (1994–2016) Mercedes-Benz Stadium (2017–present) | |
Host 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. The game is regularly 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.
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