Who will play Alabama in the 2016 SEC Championship Game?

The Alabama Crimson Tide clinched their third straight SEC West division title. Who will end up playing Alabama in the 2016 SEC Championship game?

The Alabama Crimson Tide have clinched the best record in the SEC West for the third straight season on Saturday in Week 11. Alabama destroyed the Mississippi State Bulldogs, 51-3 to improve 10-0 (7-0) on the season.

They would have to wait until Saturday evening to know that the SEC West was theirs. Alabama’s arch rival in the Auburn Tigers fell on the road to the Georgia Bulldogs, 13-7 to stumble to 7-3 (5-2) on the season. No team in the SEC West can finish better than 6-2 besides Alabama, who could still finish 8-0 in conference play if the Crimson Tide beats Auburn in Week 13.

So who would Alabama end up meeting at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta for the 2016 SEC Championship? Who can still win the SEC East at this stage of the 2016 college football season?

It’s really only down to two teams: the Florida Gators and the Tennessee Volunteers. They are the only teams that can win the SEC East with a 5-3 or better conference record. Here is what happens for either the Gators or Volunteers to win the SEC East.

Florida only has one SEC game remaining. If the Gators knock off their cross-divisional foe in the LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge, they will win the SEC East with a 6-2 divisional record. If they lose in Baton Rouge, Florida needs to hope that Tennessee drops one of its two remaining SEC games to either the Missouri Tigers or Vanderbilt Commodores. Tennessee has the head-to-head tiebreaker with Florida.

Florida is more likely to lose at LSU than Tennessee is to dropping a game to either Missouri or Vanderbilt. The Tigers and Commodores have combined to go 2-10 in SEC play. Missouri bested Vanderbilt on Saturday in their budding SEC East rivalry.

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Whether it is Florida or Tennessee, both SEC East schools are going to get dismantled by Alabama in the 2016 SEC Championship game in Atlanta. It would be back-to-back division titles for Florida. For Tennessee, it would be the Volunteers’ first division title since 2007, three coaching regimes ago.