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The SEC Championship Game (officially The SEC Championship on CBS presented by Dr Pepper for broadcast and sponsorship purposes) is an annual game that has determined the Southeastern Conference's football season champion since 1992. The championship game pits the SEC Western Division regular season champion against the Eastern Division regular season champion and is held a week after the SEC regular season has been completed (typically on the first Saturday of December). 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 between both divisions is narrowly led by the Western Division, 12–11. While ten SEC members have played in the game, only six have won: Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee of the Eastern Division, and Alabama, Auburn, and LSU of the Western Division. Each of these teams has won the championship multiple times. Alabama is the current SEC champion. The SEC Championship Game has been aired on CBS since 2001; the current broadcast team is Verne Lundquist as the play-by-play announcer, Gary Danielson as the color analyst, and Allie LaForce as the sideline reporter. ==History== The SEC was the first conference in the NCAA Division I 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 and divided into two divisions. 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. From 1994 until 2016, the game has been played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.〔http://www.secsports.com/index.php?change_well_id=9993&s〕 Beginning in 2017, the game will be played in the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium until 2027.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/13601606/sec-championship-game-remain-atlanta-2027 )〕 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 nine 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. Auburn and Missouri met in the 2013 SEC Championship Game (in Missouri's 2nd year in the SEC). Auburn won the game 59–42, breaking the previous record of 56 points for most points scored by a single team in the SEC Championship Game (previously set by Auburn in 2010). The 2008, 2009 and 2012 games were essentially national semi-final games, as both participating teams were virtually guaranteed a berth in the BCS national championship game with a win. The 2013 game was not thought of as such at the time of the game, but results of other games later that day meant that it effectively was such a semi-final. Between 2006 to 2013 the winner of the SEC Championship Game went on to play in the BCS National Championship Game posting a 7–2 record in the game. Since 2014, the SEC Championship Game winner has gone on to appear in the College Football Playoff. Beginning in 2017, the SEC Championship Game will be played in the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SEC Championship Game」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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