WATCH: SEC Champ Press Confrence

12/6/2014

The Southeastern Conference's Eastern and Western Division winners will meet in Atlanta's Georgia Dome to battle for the league championship and the right to represent the conference in the College Football Playoff. The 23rd-annual title game is set for December 6 and will be televised nationally by CBS Sports.

The game was born as a result of 1992 conference expansion, which saw Arkansas and South Carolina become the first members added in SEC history. Under NCAA regulations, a conference with 12 members may play an additional football game to determine its champion, provided the regular season is played in divisions.

The participants of the game are determined each year during the eight-game regular-season conference schedule as the teams with the best overall SEC winning percentage in each division.

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NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PATH
Much discussion has centered on Florida State – the defending national champions and the nation’s only remaining unbeaten team – slipping to No. 4 in this week’s College Football Playoff rankings. Georgia Tech’s Johnson, as previously noted, is among those who feel the Seminoles should be rated at the very top.

But what about Johnson’s own team? The Yellow Jackets are clearly playing their best football of the season heading into the ACC Championship Game and have climbed to No. 11 in the CFB pecking order. Georgia Tech’s surge includes wins over No. 19 Clemson and No. 9 Georgia in its final two regular-season games.

Is there a chance Georgia Tech could sneak in and snare one of the final coveted top four spots?

“I think there's clearly a path that's there,” Johnson said Friday afternoon. “But it's certainly not going to be there unless you can beat Florida State.

“If we could pull that off, then we'll worry about that. We probably need some help. But I think you could make a case in our last three games we will have beaten three top 20 teams and two top 10 teams in the last three weeks, and I don't think there's anybody else out there that can make that claim.”

STREAKS AND NUMBERS
- Georgia Tech defensive back D.J. White has intercepted a pass in each of the last three games, including last week’s overtime game-clincher in the win at Georgia. He is the first Yellow Jacket since Dominique Reese in 2008 to record a pick in three straight games.

- Florida State’s 8-0 mark in ACC regular-season play is its ninth in 23 years as a conference member.

- FSU is the 17th program in college football history to win at least 28 consecutive games and the first since Miami won 34 in a row from 2000 through 2002.

- Georgia Tech has rushed for at least 200 yards in each of its last 12 games, the longest active streak among FBS schools.

- Florida State has had a league-high 17 players voted to the All-ACC team each of the past two seasons. The 10 Seminoles on this year’s All-ACC first team match the school record set in 1994.

- Georgia Tech’s 123 points off turnovers this season rank fourth in the FBS. The Yellow Jackets’ seven red-zone takeaways rank second among FBS teams.

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