2000 SEC Championship Game

College football game

Conference Championship

2000 SEC Championship logo.

(9–2)

Head coach:
Tommy Tuberville

Head coach:
Steve Spurrier

AP	Coaches	BCS
18	17	NR

AP	Coaches	BCS
7	8	7

	1	2	3	4	Total
Auburn	0	3	3	0	6
Florida	14	7	7	0	28

Date

December 2, 2000

Season

Stadium

Georgia Dome

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

MVP

QB Rex Grossman, Florida

Favorite

Florida by 9½^[1]

Referee

Doyle Jackson

Attendance

74,843

United States TV coverage

Network

Brent Musburger and Gary Danielson

SEC Championship Game
< 1999	2001 >

2000 Southeastern Conference football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
Eastern Division
No. 10 Florida x$	7	–	1	10	–	3
No. 19 South Carolina	5	–	3	8	–	4
No. 20 Georgia	5	–	3	8	–	4
Tennessee	5	–	3	8	–	4
Vanderbilt	1	–	7	3	–	8
Kentucky	0	–	8	2	–	9
Western Division
No. 18 Auburn x	6	–	2	9	–	4
No. 22 LSU	5	–	3	8	–	4
Ole Miss	4	–	4	7	–	5
No. 24 Mississippi State	4	–	4	8	–	4
Arkansas	3	–	5	6	–	6
Alabama	3	–	5	3	–	8
Championship: Florida 28, Auburn 6
$ – BCS representative as conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

The 2000 SEC Championship Game was won by the Florida Gators 28–6 over the Auburn Tigers. The game was played in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia on December 2, 2000 and was televised to a national audience on ABC.^[2]

References

^ "SEC Championship History". Retrieved November 27, 2012.
^ Collins, Dwight (November 29, 2000). "Johnson Has Had 10 100-yard Games". Ocala Star-Banner. Retrieved September 3, 2011.

Recap of the game from SECsports.com
Box score and statistics from AuburnTigers.com Archived December 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
Box score and statistics from GatorZone.com

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