SEC Championship ·

SEC Championship

SEC Championship
No. 1 Alabama13-035
No. 4 Georgia11-228Final
Sat, Dec 1 · Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Ga. (neutral site) · Crowd 77,141 · IndoorsCBS

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

No. 1 Alabama beat No. 4 Georgia by 7 points, the SEC Championship.

It was played at a neutral site: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA.

How the game turned

Alabama aheadGeorgia aheadLow: 10%
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Q4 1:04 Alabama 35, Georgia 28

Alabama 87% to win

Hurts 15-yd TD run, Alabama goes ahead 35-28

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 3:08 · Alabama 0, Georgia 7Alabama's win chance fell from 74% to 65%.Fromm 20-yd TD pass to Nauta, Georgia goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 14:56 · Alabama 7, Georgia 7Alabama's win chance rose from 56% to 75%.Jacobs 1-yd TD run, ties it 7-7
  3. 3Q2 7:31 · Alabama 7, Georgia 14Alabama's win chance fell from 69% to 59%.Swift 9-yd TD run, Georgia goes ahead 14-7
  4. 4Q4 5:19 · Alabama 28, Georgia 28Alabama's win chance rose from 25% to 56%.Hurts 10-yd TD pass to Jeudy, ties it 28-28
  5. 5Q4 1:04 · Alabama 35, Georgia 28Alabama's win chance rose from 61% to 87%.Hurts 15-yd TD run, Alabama goes ahead 35-28

Alabama's lowest chance to win was 10 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

How the lead changed

Alabama took the lead for good with 1:04 left in the 4th quarter, Alabama 35, Georgia 28.

What happened next

  1. Alabama's next game: W 45-34 vs Oklahoma in the Capital One Orange Bowl, Dec 29

    28 days later

  2. Georgia's next game: L 21-28 vs Texas in the Allstate Sugar Bowl, Jan 1

    31 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Dec 1, 2018: Alabama 41, Georgia 24, Oct 17, 2020

    about 23 months later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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