1998 SEC Championship Game
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| vte | Conf. | Overall | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||
| Eastern Division | ||||||||||||
| No. 1 Tennessee x$# | 8 | – | 0 | 13 | – | 0 | ||||||
| No. 5 Florida % | 7 | – | 1 | 10 | – | 2 | ||||||
| No. 14 Georgia | 6 | – | 2 | 9 | – | 3 | ||||||
| Kentucky | 4 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||
| Vanderbilt | 1 | – | 7 | 2 | – | 9 | ||||||
| South Carolina | 0 | – | 8 | 1 | – | 10 | ||||||
| Western Division | ||||||||||||
| Mississippi State xy | 6 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 5 | ||||||
| No. 16 Arkansas x | 6 | – | 2 | 9 | – | 3 | ||||||
| Alabama | 4 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||
| Ole Miss | 3 | – | 5 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||
| LSU | 2 | – | 6 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||
| Auburn | 1 | – | 7 | 3 | – | 8 | ||||||
| Championship: Tennessee 24, Mississippi State 14 | ||||||||||||
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The 1998 SEC Championship Game was won by the Tennessee Volunteers 24–14 over the Mississippi State Bulldogs. The game was played in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta on December 5, 1998, and was televised to a national audience on ABC.
Mississippi State took a 14–10 lead in the fourth quarter with an 83-yard punt return. The game was clinched when Tee Martin threw two touchdown passes, one to Peerless Price and the other to Cedrick Wilson, in the span of 32 seconds in the fourth quarter.