With SEC Football Media Days wrapping up Thursday in Dallas, the final countdown to Week 0 is well and truly underway.
And with that comes the release of the SEC Football Preseason Poll on Friday, to which at no surprise — despite the addition of Texas — Georgia was once again picked to finish atop of the SEC.
Kirby Smart's Bulldogs were picked to be the outright SEC champions, as the additions of Texas and Oklahoma got rid of the SEC East and SEC West Divisions for the first time since 1991. Texas received the second-most first-place votes to win the SEC behind Georgia.
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The Kalen DeBoer-led Alabama Crimson Tide received 12 first-place votes with Ole Miss rounding out the top four with four votes. And somehow, given its projection to finish dead last at 16 in the overall preseason poll, Vanderbilt once again received two first-place votes.
Georgia quarterback Carson Beck , LSU offensive lineman Will Campbell and Alabama offensive lineman Tyler Booker headline the preseason All-SEC First Team Offense. Newly joined SEC quarterback Quinn Ewers (Texas) was given preseason All-SEC Second Team honors while Alabama junior quarterback Jalen Milroe received third team.
Here's a look at the full 2024 SEC Football Media Preseason Poll, including who made the All-SEC Preseason Teams:
First place votes in parentheses
1.Georgia (165)
2.Texas (27)
3.Alabama (12)
4.Ole Miss (4)
5.Vanderbilt (2)
6.LSU (2)
7. South Carolina (1)
1.Georgia
2.Texas
3.Alabama
4.Ole Miss
5.LSU
6. Missouri
7. Tennessee
8.Oklahoma
9.Texas A&M
10. Auburn
11. Kentucky
12. Florida
13.South Carolina
14. Arkansas
15.Mississippi State
16.Vanderbilt
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QB – Carson Beck, Georgia
RB - Trevor Etienne , Georgia
RB – Jarquez Hunter , Auburn
WR - Luther Burden III , Missouri
WR - Tre Harris , Ole Miss
TE - Caden Prieskorn , Ole Miss
OL - Tyler Booker, Alabama
OL - Will Campbell, LSU
OL - Kelvin Banks Jr., Texas
OL - Tate Ratledge , Georgia
C - Cooper Mays, Tennessee
QB – Quinn Ewers, Texas
RB - Raheim Sanders , South Carolina
*RB - CJ Baxter , Texas
*RB - Montrell Johnson Jr., Florida
WR - Isaiah Bond , Texas
WR - Kyren Lacy , LSU
TE - Mason Taylor , LSU
OL - Emery Jones, LSU
OL - Kadyn Proctor , Auburn
OL - Xavier Truss , Georgia
OL - Dylan Fairchild, Georgia
C - Parker Brailsford , Alabama
QB – Jalen Milroe, Alabama
RB - Justice Haynes , Alabama
RB - Ulysses Bentley , Ole Miss
WR - Deion Burks , Oklahoma
WR - Dominic Lovett, Georgia
TE - Oscar Delp , Georgia
OL - Earnest Greene III, Georgia
OL - Marques Cox, Kentucky
OL - Trey Zuhn III, Texas A&M
OL - Jaeden Roberts , Alabama
C - Jake Majors , Texas
* denotes a tie
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DL - James Pearce Jr., Tennessee
DL - Walter Nolen , Ole Miss
DL - Deone Walker , Kentucky
DL - Nazir Stackhouse , Georgia
LB - Harold Perkins, LSU
LB - Danny Stutsman , Oklahoma
*LB - Deontae Lawson , Alabama
*LB - Mykel Williams , Georgia
DB - Malaki Starks , Georgia
DB - Malachi Moore , Alabama
DB - Billy Bowman, Oklahoma
DB - Maxwell Hairston, Kentucky
DL - Shemar Turner, Texas A&M
DL - Landon Jackson , Arkansas
DL - Nic Scourton , Texas A&M
*DL - Tim Smith, Alabaam
*DL - Jared Ivey, Ole Miss
LB - Debo Williams, South Carolina
LB - Anthony Hill Jr., Texas
LB - Smael Mondon Jr., Georgia
DB - Jahdae Barron , Texas
DB - Major Burns , LSU
DB - Andrew Mukuba , Texas
DB - Malik Muhammad , Texas
DL - Tim Keenan III, Alabama
DL - Princely Umanmielen , Ole Miss
DL - Trey Moore, Texas
DL - Tonka Hemingway , South Carolina
LB - Jamon "Pop" Dumas-Johnson, Kentucku
LB - Jihaad Campbell, Alabama
LB - Eugene Asante , Auburn
DB - Domani Jackson, Alabama
DB - Daylen Everette , Georgia
DB - Jason Marshall Jr., Florida
*DB - Keon Sabb , Alabama
*DB - Nick Emmanwori , South Carolina
* denotes a tie
P - James Burnip , Alabama
PK - Bert Auburn , Texas
LS - Kneeland Hibbett, Alabama
KS – Alex McPherson, Auburn
RS - Barion Brown , Kentucky
AP - Zavion Thomas, LSU
P - Brett Thorson, Georgia
PK - Graham Nicholson , Alabama
LS – Hunter Rogers, South Carolina
KS - Will Stone, Texas
RS - Zavion Thomas, LSU
AP - Dillion Bell, Georgia
P - Jeremy Crawshaw, Florida
PK - Alex McPherson, Auburn
LS - Slade Roy, LSU
KS – Trey Smack, Florida
RS - Keionte Scott, Auburn
*AP - Barion Brown, Kentucky
*AP - Jaydon Blue, Texas
* Denotes a tie
This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: SEC Football 2024 Preseason Poll: Georgia picked to win, full preseason All-SEC teams
