2018 SEC Championship Game

2018 SEC Championship Game
2018 SEC Championship Game
Conference Championship
Alabama Crimson Tide	Georgia Bulldogs
(12–0)	(11–1)
35	28
Head coach: ; Nick Saban	Head coach: ; Kirby Smart
Date	December 1, 2018
Season	2018
Stadium	Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Location	Atlanta, Georgia
MVP	Josh Jacobs, RB, Alabama
Favorite	Alabama by 14
Referee	Matt Loeffler
Attendance	77,141
United States TV coverage
Network	CBS, Westwood One, SEC Radio
Announcers	Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson, and Jamie Erdahl (CBS); Ryan Radtke, Derek Rackley and Ross Tucker (Westwood One); Dave Neal, David Archer and Stephen Hartzell (SEC Radio)

2018 Southeastern Conference football standings

Team	W		L	W		L
Eastern Division
No. 7т Georgia x	7	–	1	11	–	3
No. 12 Kentucky	5	–	3	10	–	3
No. 7т Florida	5	–	3	10	–	3
South Carolina	4	–	4	7	–	6
Missouri	4	–	4	8	–	5
Vanderbilt	3	–	5	6	–	7
Tennessee	2	–	6	5	–	7
Western Division
No. 2 Alabama x$^	8	–	0	14	–	1
No. 16 Texas A&M	5	–	3	9	–	4
No. 6 LSU	5	–	3	10	–	3
Mississippi State*	4	–	4	8	–	5
Auburn	3	–	5	8	–	5
Ole Miss	1	–	7	5	–	7
Arkansas	0	–	8	2	–	10
Championship: Alabama 35, Georgia 28
^ – College Football Playoff participant $ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions * Mississippi State vacated four conference and eight total wins due to NCAA violations. Rankings from AP Poll

The 2018 SEC Championship Game was played on Saturday, December 1, 2018, in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, to determine the 2018 football champion of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The game featured the East Division champion Georgia against the West Division champion Alabama. Georgia, the East Division Champion, was the designated home team. The game was televised by CBS for the eighteenth straight year. Alabama came back from a 28–14 deficit in the third quarter to defeat Georgia, 35–28.