Schedule, start times, TV info for SEC teams in bowls

Eleven Southeastern Conference football teams are set to play in the Bowl game, including No. 1-ranked Georgia, which will face Ohio State in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, College Football Playoff semifinals on December 31.

In other New Year’s Six games, Tennessee will participate in the Capital One Orange Bowl on Dec. 30 against ACC champion Clemson and Alabama will be the SEC representative in the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Dec. 31, facing Big 12 champion Kansas State.

The Cheez-It Citrus Bowl picks LSU of the SEC to play Purdue of the Big Ten in a Jan. 2 showdown.

This marks the ninth year the Conference has awarded the league’s schools to a “Sec Bowl Pool” that includes six postseason games. The SEC Bowl Pool includes the TaxAct Texas Bowl in Houston, the TransPerfect Music City Bowl in Nashville, the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, the Reliaquest Bowl in Tampa and, for the first time, the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl.

SEC Bowl Pool participants are determined after conversations with bowl partners and discussions with school personnel to create an attractive bowl game lineup. This process, which is approved by the SEC institution, provides the opportunity to create exciting matches and various tasks to prevent repeated postseason goals.

Thus, Kentucky will play Iowa from the Big Ten in the TransPerfect Music City Bowl; Mississippi State will play Illinois of the Big Ten in the Reliaquest Bowl; South Carolina will play Notre Dame in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl; Ole Miss will play Texas Tech of the Big 12 in the TaxAct Texas Bowl, Arkansas will play Kansas of the Big 12 in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl; and Florida will open SEC bowl play in the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl vs. Oregon State of the Pac 12 on Saturday.

After the SEC Bowl Pool, the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa chose Missouri to face Wake Forest of the Atlantic Coast Conference on December 23.

See below for the complete schedule, start times, opponents and TV network designations for all 11 SEC teams participating this year.