SEC Media Predictions Are In
July 23rd, 2010 09:01 AM║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink
║ Schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
The SEC media on hand in Hoover, Alabama has voted… and the SEC has released their preseason predictions.
You can click here to see the media’s All-SEC team, but below are the predicted standings for the conference this fall (with first-place votes in parenthesis):
| SEC East |
Team |
1st Place Votes -Division |
Total Points |
1st Place Votes – Conference |
| 1. |
Florida |
153 |
1030 |
17 |
| 2. |
Georgia |
15 |
791 |
2 |
| 3. |
S. Carolina |
8 |
790 |
1 |
| 4. |
Kentucky |
0 |
462 |
1 |
| 5. |
Tennessee |
0 |
450 |
0 |
| 6. |
Vanderbilt |
1 |
194 |
0 |
| SEC West |
Team |
1st Place Votes – Division |
Total Points |
1st Place Votes – Conference |
| 1. |
Alabama |
157 |
1034 |
143 |
| 2. |
Arkansas |
6 |
726 |
3 |
| 3. |
Auburn |
10 |
691 |
7 |
| 4. |
LSU |
1 |
653 |
1 |
| 5. |
MSU |
0 |
320 |
0 |
| 6. |
Ole Miss |
3 |
293 |
2 |
How can schools get votes to win the league but not their own divisions? How can schools like Vandy, Kentucky and Ole Miss get votes to win the league title?
Well, the SEC has opened its doors to everyone — and as you can tell from listening to the media’s questions this week — half the media don’t seem to be media anymore. They seem to be fans. And fans of teams always rank their schools just a little bit higher than everyone else does.
So if I were you, I wouldn’t pay too much attention to the predictions of the SEC’s — ahem — media.
[...] picked by media to finish fifth in the SEC East. Fifth! Below [...]
[...] Auburn's third in …Press-Register – al.comThe Birmingham News – al.com -MrSEC (blog) -Tbo.comall 71 news [...]
[...] a schedule that includes six teams in the consensus top 25 to start the year. The SEC media just picked Tennessee to finish fifth in the SEC East. Behind [...]
[...] #4891 not to take the SEC media seriously. Jump to Comments Some clown in Hoover cast a vote for Kentucky to win the SEC… without winning the SEC [...]
[...] by a Cotton Bowl win over the Big 12 South, Ole Miss was picked by the conference media today to finish dead last in the West – behind Auburn, with its 5-11 record in SEC games the last two years, behind the same [...]