ATLANTA (AP) _ Reigning national champion Alabama has been picked to win the
Southeastern Conference championship in a preseason media poll.
Alabama was selected by 193 of the 284 voters this week at SEC media days.
Georgia, last year’s SEC champion which lost to Alabama in the national
championship game, was second with 69 votes.
Auburn received 14 votes. South Carolina, the choice of four voters, and
Florida, with two, were the only other teams named on more than one ballot.
The predicted order of finish in the SEC West was Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi
State, Texas A&M, LSU, Mississippi and Arkansas.
Georgia was picked first in the East, followed by South Carolina, Florida,
Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.
Alabama had seven first-team picks on the media’s preseason all-SEC team.
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