2009 SEC football season

2009 Southeastern Conference football season

League	NCAA Division I FBS
Sport	football
Duration	September 3, 2009 through January 7, 2010
Number of teams	12
TV partner(s)	CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, FSN, CSS
Regular Season
East champions	Florida Gators
West champions	Alabama Crimson Tide
SEC Championship Game
Champions	Alabama Crimson Tide
Finals MVP	Mark Ingram, Alabama
Football seasons
← 2008 2010 →

The 2009 Southeastern Conference football season started on Thursday, September 3 as conference member South Carolina visited North Carolina State. The conference’s other 11 teams began their respective 2009 season of NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) competition on Saturday, September 5. All teams started their season at home except Kentucky, who started their season on neutral turf at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio against Miami (OH), Georgia, who traveled to Oklahoma State, and Alabama, who traveled to the Georgia Dome to face Virginia Tech in the Chick-fil-A College Kickoff for the second straight year.

The SEC was the second conference to send 10 teams to bowl games in a given year. The ACC was the first to do so in 2008.

* Penn State's win was vacated due to the Penn State child sex abuse scandal

During the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Florida and Alabama won their respective divisions and met in the 2008 SEC Championship Game which Florida won 31–20. Florida went on to win the 2009 BCS National Championship while SEC Runner-Up Alabama lost in the Sugar Bowl. Georgia was the heavy favorite to win the SEC in the pre-season, but did not live up to the hype. The Bulldogs, however, did finish strong winning the Capital One Bowl. Other bowl winners include Chick-fil-A Bowl champion LSU, Cotton Bowl Classic champion Ole Miss, Liberty Bowl champion Kentucky, Music City Bowl champion Vanderbilt