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Hi there, I thought you might be interested in "Florida’s road to Atlanta". "There was a time that Florida’s road to Atlanta went through Knoxville every year. Lately, it has gone through either Jacksonville or Columbia. But that is Florida’s road to Atlanta in football - the path to the SEC Championship Game in Dogwood City. This is basketball season, and Billy Donovan has claimed A-town for the Rowdy Reptiles as well. When the SEC basketball tournament made its debut in 1933, the Atlanta Athletic Club was the selected venue. Although it would be nearly seventy years before Billy Ball made Florida a regular powerhouse in the city, the Gators were there at the beginning, too. In its sophomore season, the SEC tournament returned to Atlanta to pit the Florida Gators against the Crimson Tide in the title game. The matchup that would dominate the football championship in this fine city many decades later made its debut in just the second stanza of the basketball title tilt. The Gators would not return to the tournament title game until 1989 when a fresh-faced Livingston Chapman took home the MVP honors while the Tide again took home the trophy. But that was in Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tennessee, a far cry from the Big Peach. But during a four-year stretch from 2004 to 2007, the Georgia Dome hosted three SEC tournaments and a Final Four, and Florida appeared in the title game of every one of them, winning two of the SEC tourneys and of course the national title game against Ohio State. The Gators owned that building so definitively that their fans started calling it the Florida Dome..." For the full story visit: http://www.gatorcountry.com/basketball/article/floridas_road_to_atlanta/

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