Where do Alabama, Auburn rank in annual SEC Media Days preseason poll?
Texas is the media’s pick to win the SEC football championship in 2025.
The Longhorns collected 96 of a possible 204 votes in balloting at SEC Media Days this week in Atlanta. Georgia was the media’s pick last year, and went on to win the title.
Eleven different teams got votes to win the SEC championship. Georgia was second with 44 votes, followed by Alabama (29), then LSU (20), South Carolina (5), Oklahoma (3), Vanderbilt (2), Florida (2), Tennessee (1), Ole Miss (1) and Auburn (1).
In overall points, Texas received 3,060, ahead of Georgia (2,957), Alabama (2,783), LSU (2,668), South Carolina (2,109), Florida (1,986) and Texas A&M (1,892). Tennessee leads off the second half of the rankings in ninth place with 1,700 points, followed by Oklahoma (1,613), Auburn (1,272), Missouri (1,170), Vanderbilt (936), Arkansas (764), Kentucky (512) and Mississippi State (343).
SEC media has gotten its preseason pick correct six times in the last 11 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, 2021.
Auburn was the preseason pick in 2015, while Georgia was the choice in 2023 and 2024. Alabama won the title in 2015 and 2023.
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