It's only fitting that Atlanta, home to the SEC title game, is hosting the all-SEC College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T.
No. 4 Alabama didn't play for the SEC title this year because it didn't win the SEC West, but the Tide will have a chance to finish the season as the best team in the conference and the country when it faces SEC champion and No. 3 Georgia at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Georgia, which will be playing roughly 70 miles from its campus in Athens, will be the first team to play a national championship game in its home state since LSU played in New Orleans in 2012 -- where it lost to Alabama.