<P> The SEC Championship Game has been aired on CBS since 2001; the current broadcast team is Brad Nessler as the play - by - play announcer, Gary Danielson as the color analyst, and Allie LaForce as the sideline reporter . Since 2007, the game is held the first Saturday of December at 4: 00 PM Eastern . </P> <P> The SEC was the first NCAA conference in any division to hold a football championship game that was exempt from NCAA limits on regular - season contests . Such a game was made possible by two separate developments . The first came in 1987, when the NCAA membership approved a proposal sponsored by the Division II Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association that allowed any conference with 12 football members to split into divisions and stage a championship game between the divisional winners . The SEC took advantage of this rule by adding the University of Arkansas and the University of South Carolina in 1992, bringing the conference membership to 12, and splitting into two football divisions . The format has since been adopted by other conferences to decide their football champion (the first being the Big 12 in 1996). If two SEC teams split a season series 1 - 1 but one team wins the SEC championship the winnings team victory makes the season series 1.5 to 1 </P> <P> The first two SEC Championship Games were held at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama . From 1994 until 2016, the game has been played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta . With the Georgia Dome scheduled to be demolished after the 2016 season, the SEC chose to keep the title game in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome's replacement, Mercedes - Benz Stadium . The game will be played at the new stadium through 2027 . </P> <P> In 2016, Alabama and Florida met in the SEC Championship Game for the ninth time in the twenty - five year history of the game, the record for the most times any two teams have faced each other in the championship game . And at least one of those two teams has qualified for the game in 14 of 25 seasons . 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 nine of their eleven SEC Championship Game appearances . In addition, the 2009 game marked the second consecutive year that the No. 1 (Florida) and No. 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, which it went on to win as well . </P>

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