SEC Football Championship Tickets

SEC Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Every year in early December, two of the best teams in college football clash for a spot in the Sugar Bowl, and for a shot at making the College Football Playoff in the SEC Championship Game.

Since 2017, the SEC Championship has been held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, after 23 years at its predecessor, the Georgia Dome, with the first two games held at Legion Field in Birmingham. Opened in 2016, Mercedes-Benz Stadium has a seating capacity of 71,000, expandable to 75,000. The SEC Championship Game is the longest-running conference football championship in the FBS division of the NCAA, and has had countless memorable moments, including Alabama's 14-point comeback against Georgia in 2018.

SEC Championship Game History

In 1987, NCAA regulations first allowed for conference championship games without counting against regular-season limitations. However, no major conference at the time had the 12 teams necessary to initiate a title game until the Southeastern Conference added South Carolina and Arkansas after the 1991 season. The first SEC Championship Game took place on December 5, 1992, at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, with the local Alabama Crimson Tide defeating Florida 28-21 on their way to an undefeated season and a national championship.

During the BCS era, the SEC Championship Game acted several times as a de facto national semifinal, with Florida and Alabama each ranked No. 1 or No. 2 going into the 2008 and 2009 championships. As of 2021, every team that's played in the SEC Championship has been nationally ranked at the time of play, with the SEC the only Power Five conference to achieve this designation. The competitiveness of the SEC has led to the unique issue of having two teams in the same division being of national championship caliber. In 2011 and 2017, Alabama was left out of the SEC Championship, only to defeat the championship game winner (LSU and Georgia, respectively) in the BCS or CFP title game. That said, the winner of the SEC Championship Game has gone on to win a national championship 11 times since its establishment, cementing the claim that "It Just Means More" in the SEC.