The game was played each year since the conference's formation in 1996 until 2010 and returned during the 2017 season.
[1] Between 2011 and 2016, the championship was earned in round-robin regular-season play among all conference members.
[2] Until 2014, the league did not employ tiebreaking procedures, such as head-to-head results, to determine a single champion, and thus it was not unusual for a season to end with "co-champions."
[3] From 2017 onward, the championship game features the two teams with the best conference records.
[4] The champion usually is invited to the Sugar Bowl unless selected to play in one of the national semifinals for the College Football Playoff.