Some noteworthy numbers heading into the SEC Championship game:
- LSU's all-time football record in the Georgia Dome is an impressive 8-1. That includes 3-1 in SEC Championship games, 4-0 in Chick-fil-A Bowl games and 1-0 in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game. LSU's only loss in the Dome was to Georgia in the 2005 SEC title game.
- Georgia's all-time football record in the Georgia Dome is 4-4. That includes 2-1 in SEC title games, 2-1 in Chick-fil-A Bowl games, a loss in the 2006 Sugar Bowl (played in Atlanta because of Hurricane Katrina) and a loss in this season's Chick-fil-A Kickoff game.
- In SEC football history, Alabama has won the most league championships with 22, followed by Tennessee with 13. Next on the list are the programs playing Saturday: Georgia has won 12 SEC championships and LSU 10.
- This is the 20th SEC Championship game, an event that started in 1992.
- Since 2001, when Mark Richt became the Georgia coach, the Bulldogs have reached the SEC title game more often than any other SEC East team. In that 11-season stretch, Georgia has reached the game four times, Florida and Tennessee three times apiece and South Carolina once.
- This will be the third time Georgia and LSU have met in the title game. LSU won 34-13 in 2003, and Georgia won 34-14 in 2005.
- LSU leads the all-time series with Georgia 15-12-1. The teams first played in 1928. The Bulldogs are 3-3 vs. LSU under Richt. In the teams' most recent meeting, LSU won 20-13 in Athens in 2009. Georgia had won three in a row over LSU before the 2009 game.
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