SEC Championship Game
Season SEC Champ Result Opponent Opp . Conference Bowl Game National Champion
1992 # 2 Alabama W 34-13 # 1 Miami Big East 1993 Sugar Bowl Alabama
1993 # 8 Florida W 41-7 # 3 West Virginia Big East 1994 Sugar Bowl Florida State
1994 # 5 Florida L 17-23 # 7 Florida State ACC 1995 Sugar Bowl Nebraska
1995 # 2 Florida L 24-62 # 1 Nebraska Big 8 1996 Fiesta Bowl Nebraska
1996 # 3 Florida W 52-20 # 1 Florida State ACC 1997 Sugar Bowl Florida
1997 # 3 Tennessee L 17-42 # 2 Nebraska Big 12 1998 Orange Bowl Nebraska , Michigan
1998 # 1 Tennessee W 23-16 # 2 Florida State ACC 1999 Fiesta Bowl Tennessee
1999 # 5 Alabama L 34-35 # 8 Michigan Big Ten 2000 Orange Bowl Florida State
2000 # 7 Florida L 20-37 # 2 Miami Big East 2001 Sugar Bowl Oklahoma
2001 # 12 LSU W 47-34 # 7 Illinois Big Ten 2002 Sugar Bowl Miami
2002 # 4 Georgia W 26-13 # 16 Florida State ACC 2003 Sugar Bowl Ohio State
2003 # 3 LSU W 21-14 # 2 Oklahoma Big 12 2004 Sugar Bowl LSU , USC
2004 # 3 Auburn W 16-13 # 9 Virginia Tech ACC 2005 Sugar Bowl USC
2005 # 8 Georgia L 35-38 # 13 West Virginia Big East 2006 Sugar Bowl Texas
2006 # 2 Florida W 41-14 # 1 Ohio State Big Ten 2007 BCS Champ . Game Florida
2007 # 2 LSU W 38-24 # 1 Ohio State Big Ten 2008 BCS Champ . Game LSU
2008 # 2 Florida W 24-14 # 1 Oklahoma Big 12 2009 BCS Champ . Game Florida
2009 # 1 Alabama W 37-21 # 2 Texas Big 12 2010 BCS Champ . Game Alabama
2010 # 1 Auburn W 22-19 # 2 Oregon Pac-10 2011 BCS Champ . Game Auburn
2011 # 1 LSU L 0-21 # 2 Alabama SEC 2012 BCS Champ . Game Alabama
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 semifinal bowl , or if the Sugar Bowl is hosting a CFP semifinal and the SEC champion either does not qualify for the CFP or has a seeding that prevents it from appearing in the Sugar Bowl . [ 8 ] 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 two 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 member Alabama , and 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 . Rankings are from the AP Poll at the time the game was played .
The SEC Championship Game is an annual American football game that has determined the Southeastern Conference's season champion since 1992. The championship game pits the SEC West Division regular season champion against the East Division regular season champion. 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 fourteen current SEC members have played in the SEC Championship Game. Kentucky and Vanderbilt have yet to reach the game from the East, while Ole Miss and Texas A&M have yet to reach the game from the West. The overall series is led by the Western Division, 15-12. 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. LSU is the reigning SEC champion.