Media picks Auburn to win SEC; LSU third in West

Auburn is the media pick to win the SEC Championship. But this is the same league that LSU won with an 8-0 record in 2011, including a win at Alabama, but Alabama beat LSU in the BCS national championship game.

The media poll has picked the accurate champion five times in 23 years.

Auburn received 108 first-place votes to Alabama’s 92, but the Crimson Tide had a slight edge in overall points (1,405-1,362).

USC got just one first place vote.

College football notes ” Alabama gets more SEC West tallies, but Tigers garner most No. 1 votes.

Heck, even Kentucky picked up one first-place vote in the SEC East. The total vote had United Kingdom picked to finish sixth in the conference, ahead of only Vanderbilt.

But why? The Tigers have won the SEC East two years running, and have arguably an easier schedule than in those two years. “Now, he’s in the starting role”. “They told me I had to pick [Alabama or Auburn] just for living in the area so picked Auburn”, Moorey said with a smile. But now Malzahn has defensive expert Will Muschamp as defensive coordinator after his firing as head coach at Florida.

SEC Media Days reporters are 5-18 at picking the SEC champion since 1992. After 1 and ½ years of losing heartbreaking contests before finishing last season with five straight up wins in their final six, Arkansas rounds up the cluster of contenders at +550.

The preseason All-SEC Team will be announced on Friday.