2010 SEC Football Championship Game Tickets

The SEC Championship Game refers to the game that determines the Southeastern Conference's football champion. The championship game pits the top team from the SEC Western Division against the top team from the SEC Eastern Division. The game is held the Saturday after the regular season is completed. The winner gets an automatic bid to a BCS bowl (and the past 4 years to the BCS Championship Game)!!

Currently, eight of the twelve SEC members have played in the Championship. Only Ole Miss has failed to reach the game from the West. In 2003, the Rebels were tied for first in the western division with LSU but lost the head-to-head matchup in Oxford, so LSU played in the SEC Championship Game. Kentucky, South Carolina and Vanderbilt have never made it to the top fom the East. The Eastern division holds an advantage in the game over the Western division, 11–7 overall.

The SEC Championship Game is one of the premier events in college football. This year it will be amazing as undefeated Florida and undefeated Alabama face off against each other. Here's a preview: 2009 SEC Football Championship Game Preview. Fans from the SEC will tell you that it is really almost as great an accomplishment to win an SEC Championship, as it is to win a National Championship. The reason is that the SEC is loaded with great college football teams. So if you were good enough to get to the top of the heap in the SEC, then you are one of the elite teams in all of NCAA football.

The SEC was established in December 1932, when the 13 members of the Southern Conference located west and south of the Appalachian Mountains left to form their own conference. Ten of the thirteen charter members have remained in the conference since its inception. They are University of Alabama, University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Kentucky, University of Mississippi, University of Tennessee, Auburn University, Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University, and Vanderbilt University. The other charter members were: Sewanee (Left the SEC in 1940), Georgia Tech (Left the SEC in 1964), and Tulane (Left the SEC in 1966).

The SEC expanded from ten to twelve members in 1991 with the addition of the University of Arkansas from the Southwest Conference and the University of South Carolina from the independent ranks in football and the Metro Conference in other sports (except men's soccer, where it stayed with the Metro for two years; after the disbandment of the Metro, it was independent until joining Conference USA for soccer in 2005). In 1992, the SEC adopted the divisional setup that exists today. Also in 1992, the SEC was the first conference to receive permission from the NCAA to conduct an annual championship game in football, featuring the winners of the conference's eastern and western divisions. It was held at Birmingham's Legion Field the first two years and at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta thereafter. If planning a trip to the game, check out Georgia Dome Trip.

Below is a list of results in each SEC Football Championship Game, which started in 1992.

1992 SEC Championship Game - #2 Alabama 28 - #12 Florida 21
1993 SEC Championship Game - #9 Florida 28 - #16 Alabama 13
1994 SEC Championship Game - #6 Florida 24 - #3 Alabama 23
1995 SEC Championship Game - #2 Florida 34 - #23 Arkansas 3
1996 SEC Championship Game - #4 Florida 45 - #11 Alabama 30
1997 SEC Championship Game - #3 Tennessee 30 - #11 Auburn 29
1998 SEC Championship Game - #1 Tennessee 24 - #23 Mississippi State 14
1999 SEC Championship Game - #7 Alabama 34 - #5 Florida 7
2000 SEC Championship Game - #7 Florida 28 - #18 Auburn 6
2001 SEC Championship Game - #21 LSU 31 - #2 Tennessee 20
2002 SEC Championship Game - #4 Georgia 30 - #22 Arkansas 3
2003 SEC Championship Game - #3 LSU 34 - #5 Georgia 13
2004 SEC Championship Game - #3 Auburn 38 - #15 Tennessee 28
2005 SEC Championship Game - #13 Georgia 34 - #3 LSU 14
2006 SEC Championship Game - #4 Florida 38 - #8 Arkansas 28
2007 SEC Championship Game - #5 LSU 21 - #14 Tennessee 14
2008 SEC Championship Game - #2 Florida 31 - #1 Alabama 20
2009 SEC Championship Game - #2 Alabama 32 - #1 Florida 13

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