2006 SEC Championship Game - Selection Process

Selection Process

2006 SEC football standings
Conf Overall
Team W L W L
Eastern Division
#1 Florida x 7 – 1 13 – 1
#25 Tennessee 5 – 3 9 – 4
Kentucky 4 – 4 8 – 5
#23 Georgia 4 – 4 9 – 4
South Carolina 3 – 5 8 – 5
Vanderbilt 1 – 7 4 – 8
Western Division
#15 Arkansas x 7 – 1 10 – 4
#9 Auburn 5 – 3 10 – 3
#3 LSU 6 – 2 11 – 2
Alabama 2 – 6 6 – 7
Ole Miss 2 – 6 4 – 8
Mississippi State 1 – 7 3 – 9
Championship: Florida 38, Arkansas 28
† – BCS representative as champion
‡ – BCS at-large representative
x – Division champion/co-champions
  • Alabama finished the season with an overall record of 6–7 (2–6 in conference) but had all victories vacated by the NCAA in 2010. As such, the official record for Alabama is 0–7 (0–6 in conference).
    Rankings from AP Poll

College football rules dictate that if a conference has twelve or more teams, an extra 9th conference game may be played as a championship game to determine the conference champion. The SEC Championship Game matches up the winner of the Eastern and Western divisions of the Southeastern Conference. The game was first played in 1992, when the conference expanded from 10 to 12 teams with the addition of Arkansas and South Carolina. The SEC was the first conference in college football to have a conference championship game. Five other conferences currently have conference championship games (Big 10, Pac-12, ACC, CUSA & MAC).

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