2001 SEC Championship Game: LSU 31, Tennessee 20 | Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA | December 8, 2001 Nick Saban's LSU Tigers pulled off one of the biggest upsets in SEC Championship Game history, knocking off the No. 2 Tennessee Volunteers 31-20 and denying the Vols a spot in the national championship game against Miami. Tennessee entered the game 10-1, riding high off its first outright SEC East title since the 1970s, and Casey Clausen had the Vols rolling early. After LSU grabbed a 7-0 lead, Clausen answered with touchdown passes to Kelley Washington and Troy Fleming, part of a 17-point second-quarter surge that put Tennessee in front 17-7. Things looked even better for the Vols when LSU quarterback Rohan Davey went down with a rib injury in the first half. That is when the game changed. In stepped Matt Mauck, a 22-year-old redshirt freshman and former minor league baseball player who had barely played all season. Mauck led LSU on a string of scoring drives in the second half, converti...