SEC Championship Game The SEC Championship Game refers to the game determining the Southeastern Conference ' s football season champion . The championship game pits the SEC Western Division representative against the Eastern Division representative in a game held after the regular season has been completed . Thus far , nine of the fourteen SEC members have played in the Championship . Ole Miss and Texas A & M have yet to reach the game from the West . Kentucky , Vanderbilt , and Missouri have never represented the East . The Eastern division currently holds an 11 - 10 advantage in the game . While 9 out of 14 SEC members have played in the game , only 6 have won , those being Georgia , Tennessee , and Florida of the Eastern Division , and Alabama , Auburn , and LSU of the Western Division . Since 2008 at least one of the teams competing has been ranked # 1 or # 2 in the BCS standings heading into the game . The 2008 , 2009 , and 2012 games were in effect national semi - final games , as both participating teams were virtually guaranteed a birth in the BCS national championship game with a win . History . The SEC was the first conference in the NCAA to hold a football championship game made possible when the conference expanded in 1991 to twelve members with the addition of the University of Arkansas and the University of South Carolina . 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 . However , since 1994 , the game has been played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta . In 2009 , Alabama and Florida met in the SEC Championship Game for the seventh time in the eighteen - year history of the game , the record for the most times any two teams have faced each other in the Championship game . The only other matchup in the SEC Championship played more than twice is Georgia and LSU , which has been played three times . Alabama has faced Florida in seven of their eight SEC Championship game appearances . In addition , the 2009 game marked the second consecutive year that the number 1 ( Florida ) and number 2 ( Alabama ) ranked teams in the AP Poll met in the SEC Championship game . 2009 was the first time any conference championship game had featured two undefeated teams . Alabama won 32 - 13 and earned a berth in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game . Results . Results from all SEC Championship games that have been played . Rankings are from the AP Poll . Home / away designation . The team designated as the " home " team alternates between division champions ; the designation goes to the Eastern champion in even - numbered years and the Western champion in odd - numbered years . As of the 2012 contest , the designated " home " team is 12 – 9 overall in SEC championship games . In 2009 , the Western division 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 has represented the Western division in the previous four seasons that the Western division champion was the " home " team and LSU traditionally chooses to wear white jerseys for home games . Rematches . The SEC Championship game has featured a rematch of a regular season game a total of six times ( 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2003 , 2004 , 2010 ) . The team who won the regular season game is 5 - 1 in the rematches , the lone exception being in 2001 when LSU defeated Tennessee in the championship game after losing to them in the regular season . Selection criteria . Division standings are based on each team ' s overall conference record . Often , two or more teams tie for the best record in their division and each team is recognized as a divisional co - champion . However , tiebreakers are used to determine who will represent the division in the championship game . Winner ' s bowl performance . The SEC champion plays in the Sugar Bowl unless they have been selected to play in the BCS Championship Game . Eleven winners of the SEC Championship Game have gone on to win the national title ( outright or shared ) , including seven consecutive titles from 2006 - 2012 . Rankings are from the AP Poll . Runner up ' s bowl performance . Rankings are from the AP Poll .