For the second straight year, Georgia is the media’s pick for the SEC championship this season.

The Bulldogs collected 165 of a possible 213 votes in balloting at SEC Media Days this week in Dallas. Georgia was also the media’s pick a year ago, but lost in the SEC championship game to Alabama.

Seven different teams got votes to win the SEC championship. Texas was second with 27 votes, followed by Alabama with 12, then Ole Miss with four, Vanderbilt and LSU with two each and South Carolina with one.

Georgia received 3,330 polls points overall, ahead of Texas (3,041), Alabama (2,891), Ole Miss (2,783), LSU (2,322), Missouri (2,240), Tennessee (2,168) and Oklahoma (2,022). Texas A&M (1,684) leads off the second “half’ of the SEC projections in ninth, with Auburn (1,382), Kentucky (1,371), Florida (1,146), South Carolina (923), Arkansas (749), Mississippi State (623) and Vanderbilt (293) rounding out the field.

SEC media has gotten its preseason pick correct only five times in the last 10 years. Alabama was picked to win the SEC in 2014 and every year from 2016-22 — and won the title in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2021. Auburn was the preseason pick in 2015.

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