15 Facts About SEC Championship Game

1. SEC Championship Game completed more than 70 percent of his passes for 3,189 yards, with 36 touchdowns and just two interceptions.

2. SEC Championship Game finished 27 of 39 passing for 328 yards and four touchdowns and added 42 carries for 266 yards and four TDs.

3. SEC Championship Game's finished the year ranked higher than when she started (13).

4. SEC Championship Game's reached the final of the French Open, coming within a few games of the title.

5. SEC Championship Game's lost her share of matches in puzzling fashion, twice in very first round of majors.

6. SEC Championship Game made his first Ryder Cup team and was one of exactly two Americans to escape Le Golf National with a winning record.

7. SEC Championship Game has ensured that the enduring memory of his career won't be getting benched for the second half of the national title game.

8. SEC Championship Game could easily become a coveted transfer option if not "the biggest free agent in college football history", as father Averion predicted last spring.

9. SEC Championship Game passed for a touchdown and ran 15 yards with 64 seconds left for what proved the winning score.

10. SEC Championship Game had as many interceptions in that game as he did in the first 12: two.

11. SEC Championship Game was a different story, though, with Tagovailoa uncharacteristically struggling before exiting with an ankle injury.

12. SEC Championship Game gave this run-first group a missing passing element while proving capable of contributing on the ground (250 rushing yards, four scores).

13. SEC Championship Game will continue to build his legacy by leading the Crimson Tide to back-to-back national titles.

14. SEC Championship Game was the first NCAA conference in any division to hold a football championship game that was exempt from NCAA limits on regular-season contests.

15. SEC Championship Game is an annual American football game that has determined the Southeastern Conference's season champion since 1992.