LOOK: Old Georgia Dome set for demolition as young, hip Mercedes-Benz Stadium opens

The SEC’s once-famed championship cathedral is coming down.

If there were any questions about whether or not Mercedes-Benz Stadium would be ready to go for college football in Week 1, those have pretty much been answered.

That should be evidenced by the fact that the Georgia Dome in Atlanta was being prepared for demolition on Monday.

And that’s a sad sentence to read for anyone who loves SEC football. The Georgia Dome has housed the SEC Championship Game since 1994, as well as the Peach Bowl since it first opened in 1992.

The Georgia Dome also has been home to the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and the Georgia State Panthers.

The Georgia Dome prepares for demolition. 😢😢😢 pic.twitter.com/1oiGR5Iu7p

— Everything Georgia (@GAFollowers) August 28, 2017

Officials are expecting a million or so people to walk through the doors of Mercedes-Benz Stadium over the next two months, according to a report from WSB-TV in Atlanta.

The Georgia Dome was once the largest covered stadium in the world. Now, it will soon be nonexistent.

Insert sad face emoji.

Cody McClure

Cody McClure is an SEC Football Writer for Saturday Down South. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he also co-hosts a midday sports radio show for FOX Sports. Cody previously worked for Athlon Sports.