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Media vote: Georgia will win SEC East

9:35 am July 19, 2012, by Tim Tucker

HOOVER, Ala. — Georgia will win the SEC East and lose to LSU in the SEC Championship game again this season.

That’s according to the annual preseason media poll, announced Thursday at SEC Media Days.

Georgia received 132 votes to win the East, followed by 72 votes for South Carolina and 12 for Florida.

LSU drew 139 votes to win the West, followed by 72 for defending national champion Alabama and six for Arkansas.

If the media is correct in both divisions, that would set up a rematch of last year’s SEC title game. And the outcome would be the same, too, according to the preseson media poll.

LSU received 129 votes to win the SEC championship, followed by 65 votes for Alabama and 14 for Georgia. Five other teams got six votes or fewer to win the conference title, including one unfathomable vote for Mississippi.

“I hope the media is right [on its SEC East pick],” Georgia coach Mark Richt said. “I was looking at the record of picking the eventual champion, and it wasn’t real good. Maybe you guys are a lot better at picking divisional champions anyway. But it would be nice to get back to Atlanta … and hopefully play a little bit better this time around.”

The annual media poll has attempted to predict the SEC order of finish since 1992. But it has correctly predicted the eventual SEC champion only four times in those 20 years, most recently in 2008 (Florida).

PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH

SEC EAST

Team (first-place votes) Points

Georgia (132) 1434

South Carolina (72) 1358

Florida (12) 1045

Missouri (2) 797

Tennessee (4) 718

Vanderbilt 598

Kentucky 266

SEC WEST

Team (first-place votes) Points

LSU (139) 1449

Alabama (72)  1379

Arkansas (6) 1093

Auburn (4) 827

Texas A&M 653

Mississippi State 554

Ole Miss (1) 261

SEC CHAMPION

Team  Votes

LSU 129

Alabama 65

Georgia 14

South Carolina 6

Arkansas 4

Auburn 2

Florida 1

Ole Miss 1

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DawginLex

July 19th, 2012
11:18 am

Dead on Reebok

I have said it many times, the time is now

border dweller

July 19th, 2012
11:19 am

FIRST ! (page)

Got the Talent on O? …Check
Got the Talent on D?…Check
Got the Schedule?…Check
Got the Munchies…Check

Well, three out of four ain’t too shabby.

bucket

July 19th, 2012
11:21 am

@ DawginLex – I’m with you guys about this being the make or break year for CMR. No more excuses.

GTBob

July 19th, 2012
11:21 am

the western division has hardly owned the SEC!

The west has won the last 3 SEC championships by an average of 30 points. The east isn’t even coming within 4 touchdowns. According to the above votes, no one thinks the SEC east really even has a chance to win the SEC. The old days are over. Quit clinging to them in an effort to convince people you are still relevant. The west completely owns the east right now.

Dawg Haus

July 19th, 2012
11:24 am

I think all of Bulldog Nation is finally on the same page with 2012 being a make or break year for this program. A lot of key players will probably be leaving after this season.

I-185

July 19th, 2012
11:26 am

BAMA

Will win West and the SEC.
They have the best offensive line in the country… No question.
They may bore some with their style. Maintain a strong ground game, do not turn the ball over. Play a strong defense at all times.
WIN WIN WIN

P_The_Ricker

July 19th, 2012
11:31 am

gt bob,

so by your logic, the sec as a whole should be broken-up as well, considering that teams from the league have won the last 6 bcs championships?

instead of focusing your concerns regarding divisional differences, maybe you should re-focus your concerns as to how far behind the rest of the leagues are.

AltamahaDawg

July 19th, 2012
11:40 am

MS Bully, I am pretty sure Georgia could do better than 0-12 playing those teams that you mentioned. Maybe you should concentrate on beating one of them, ever, then worry about our side. You would loss at least 3 SEC games playing our schedule this year so NO, you would not win the east.

azdawg

July 19th, 2012
11:40 am

There are just too many ?? to make championship claims this soon. A new and undersized OL for the most part won’t help the running game nor pass protection against SEC defenses. Loss of their best RB was a big blow toss in expecting FR to replace IC is a long shot. Attrition during the off season, suspensions, etc, thins an already shrinking back up corps. Doesn’t appear CMR has done anything to fix special teams play which cost GA a few games in ‘11. Only bright spot is the defense but can’t expect them to win games if the Offense sputters as it did in the 4 losses last season.

The MO game will be a good yardstick to measure how successful dawgs will be this season. If they struggle and we see the same problems as we’ve seen in past seasons then some heads have to roll. Lets hope for a miracle because thats what they’ll need to reach championship level.

AltamahaDawg

July 19th, 2012
11:47 am

The line is not undersized.

buckblue

July 19th, 2012
11:49 am

42 – 10 Remember pups….calm down…you are going to get spanked again….

GTBob

July 19th, 2012
11:50 am

instead of focusing your concerns regarding divisional differences, maybe you should re-focus your concerns as to how far behind the rest of the leagues are.

This blog is about the SEC and the picks for the SEC championship. If you would like to discuss how terrible college football is in other conferences I would love to, but it isnt really relevant here.

LOLOLOL

July 19th, 2012
11:50 am

“Shoulda been 2007 National Champs”

Nope, try again, mutt.

LOLOLOL

July 19th, 2012
11:51 am

“the western division has hardly owned the SEC!”

LSU, Bama, Auburn, Bama in the West

Florida in the East.

Owned.

SAL

July 19th, 2012
11:52 am

Well they should! They have one of the easiest schedules in the country this year. If they don’t win the east, they will NEVER win anything ever again.

LOLOLOL

July 19th, 2012
11:52 am

“doesn’t bode well for LSU”

LSU won the SEC last year, mutt.

Kerryb

July 19th, 2012
12:02 pm

What does the stupid media know. LSU will beat us because….Why? They are LSU? They are also starting a new player at the most important position on the field and we have an experienced 3 year starter. I think that give US the edge.

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Larry Bird

July 19th, 2012
12:11 pm

Somebody said the other day that the AJC needs to set up a facebook style login and I think that’s the smartest Idea I’ve ever read on these blogs. I guarantee it would weed out some of these losers who come on here just to bash out the Dawgs. At the very least it would prevent people from having eight different names and arguing with everybody.

AltamahaDawg

July 19th, 2012
12:20 pm

Larry that would cut down on the hits when they sell the ads to: Please Buy Gator Tickets or Vote for Obama.

uscjimi

July 19th, 2012
12:22 pm

Lets all settle down a little bit! What are the chances that the SEC East division winner won’t have a minimum of two conference losses? Could the East Division winner have three conference losses?

AltamahaDawg

July 19th, 2012
12:26 pm

no

Dawg Haus

July 19th, 2012
12:31 pm

Loving your 12:20 post, Altamaha.

Bama in Atlanta

July 19th, 2012
12:32 pm

Kerryb

July 19th, 2012
12:02 pm
What does the stupid media know. LSU will beat us because….Why? They are LSU? They are also starting a new player at the most important position on the field and we have an experienced 3 year starter. I think that give US the edge.

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Kerryb, the flaw in that logic regarding QB is that last year Bama was not given a chance to win anything, much less the BCS NC, because we had a rookie QB. While the percentages may support your argument, there’s never a guarantee.

Joey

July 19th, 2012
12:34 pm

As a public service…

Would that be for the Chick-fil-a bowl?

Our bowl game probably won’t be for another week or so. Maybe we can make it . . .

RE: Bryan G.

July 19th, 2012
12:36 pm

Who on earth voted for Georgia?? Oh, yeah…cupcake schedule. Now I got it; although, it won’t work.

Dawgs poop their way to a 9-3 record. Ole Ball Coach will win the East.

7576DAWG

July 19th, 2012
12:37 pm

The Missouri game will tell us a lot. If Murray can hold down his mistakes and if Morgan is accurate inside of 45 yards Georgia will be a force this year. If both of those things are a mirror image of last year then the prediction is wrong but the important part is Georgia has the personnel to win the East , the question is do we have the leadership.

The Reader

July 19th, 2012
12:42 pm

Absolutely not. No way to beat SC,FL. Also – by the end of October there will be some key players suspended for DUI, etc., and maybe their sports dir in some kind of trouble. The scandal w/ the president will be going on, too.

Nimrod Dawg

July 19th, 2012
12:56 pm

We’re sittin’ pretty to back in again. It doesn’t get any better than this!!

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Saldiven

July 19th, 2012
1:17 pm

If UGA should win the East and face LSU again, I actually think UGA would win the rematch. UGA’s defense is all returning, by and large, as is LSU’s. People forget how UGA dominated the first half of that game; it wasn’t until special teams miscues and a couple of turnovers that LSU began to have any success. It will, of course, come down to whether or not UGA can establish a meaningful running game this year. If UGA can establish that meaningful running game, they should win the SEC. If they cannot, they probably will not win the East.

To Tell the Truth

July 19th, 2012
1:23 pm

GA SUCKS!!!

NO NC in 30 + years!!!! LMAO!!

SC wins the East!!!

Joey

July 19th, 2012
1:34 pm

To Tell the Truth,

10 – 1

GA TECH SUCKS A LOT WORSE!!!

LOLOLOL

July 19th, 2012
1:42 pm

“GA TECH SUCKS A LOT WORSE!!!”

Actually, both GT and UGA suck evenly. The only difference is GT has won a title since Reagan left office.

THE Dixie Redcoat Band

July 19th, 2012
1:43 pm

Here we go again, UGA wins SEC East, SEC then NC!

I dropped my fried twinkie

July 19th, 2012
1:46 pm

What is NEW? The UGa fans think “THIS IS THE YEAR” until is quickly becomes “Wait Til Next Year”.

GS

July 19th, 2012
1:55 pm

The MEDIA picked Georgia to win the SEC East division. Too bad their games won’t be played on the media’s computers and stat sheets, but actually on the field. Keep filling the We’re Gonna’s heads with more hot air.

Ticket Tax

July 19th, 2012
2:02 pm

“This is a very, very criminal situation that probably reflects poorly on a lot of folks,”

mad~catfish

July 19th, 2012
2:11 pm

you know i really am sick to death of this schedule talk crap…i mean you act like georgia decides who it plays in the sec….everything is on rotation which means every few years you will not play bama and lsu we do not decide that spurier does not decide that and never ever will…he can play ole’ miss next year….this is absurd….can we please take a look at the ga tech schedule…

Sept. 3 – at Virginia Tech

Sept. 8 – Presbyterian

Sept. 15 – Virginia

Sept. 22 – Miami

Sept. 29 – Middle Tennessee State

Oct. 6 – at Clemson

Oct. 13 – Open date

Oct. 20 – Boston College

Oct. 27 – BYU

Nov. 3 – at Maryland

Nov. 10 – at North Carolina

Nov. 17 – Duke

Nov. 24 – at Georgia

Presbyterian really???? the mighty blue hoses wow wahta barn burner…. i bet that will be offered with 4 hot dogs 4 cokes 4 programs and a gun shot wound down on the flats…duke ever really??? uga and byu only credible games on this schedule and the sad thing is we may have a off year for schedule and predicted to go 12-0…you have a off year of a schedule every year in the wac acc and still this year like any other year predicted to go 6-6….oh and yet again another loss in athens…are you getting sick or crow instead of turkey every year,,,,cause i sure love sippin fine wine out of the governor’s cup time after time…how does it feel you run the triple option…WE RUN THIS STATE!!!!!

GaStateBen

July 19th, 2012
2:24 pm

Good thing the schedule is so easy this year.

Fair n Balanced

July 19th, 2012
2:38 pm

Expectations too high. Ga never has measured up to them. I hope we do but this schedule will be tougher than we think. If we win both games in Columbia we will win East. Lose either of them and we probably won’t. Beginning of season has to be strong. Then we have to get better.

RedandBlackDAWG

July 19th, 2012
2:42 pm

I am not sure having the easiest schedule in the east has anything to do with making it easier to win the whole SEC. I know there is some logic there, but isn’t LSU or Alabama going to be still the same team , no matter what schedule UGA has leading up to Atlanta? Would it be any different if UGA had the hardest schedule in the east and still won?
In 2010 UGA was also supposed to have had an easy schedule according to Spurrier and S.C. won the East and got their pants handed to them by Auburn in Atlanta. Did having a harder East schedule equate to winning the SEC? Is it the principle that the less tough schedule you get, the better you are in the big game? Spurrier complains that UGA had an easy schedule and didn’t deserve to be in the SECCG. If S.C. had won the Auburn game, wouldn’t they have been in Atlanta. Seems to me, they made their own fate. Or could it just maybe be the other way around?
You play the teams you are assigned except for those OCC games, and there is no way of knowing until you play those games, how good or bad the opponents or your team will be. Was Auburn a better team then S.C. was last year? I think that makes three in a row for Auburn over S.C., but was Auburn the better team last year?
I think the teams should just play their games, and ignore the other teams schedule and let it work out. If S.C. is a good as Spurrier says they are, he should win the east. He has to beat LSU, but if they are so good, he should take care of them during the regular season and then beat whatever team represents the west in Atlanta. It doesn’t matter who your conference mates are. You either are as good as you perceive or you are not. The SEC East is just a small part, of a long journey to the big game.

Michael Veli

July 19th, 2012
2:54 pm

To those who think Georgia is going to win the S.E.C. are you talking about on the XBox or on the Playstation?

GTBob

July 19th, 2012
2:55 pm

can we please take a look at the ga tech schedule…

Sure. It is tougher then the UGA schedule.

still this year like any other year predicted to go 6-6

Who is predicting us to go 6-6?

bubba4dawgs

July 19th, 2012
3:03 pm

OK, DAWGS!! It’s your turn to shine! This is the best opportunity you’ve had in a long time and you are way overdue! Go get’em! Be hungry with every game and march right on in to the dome in Atlanta and take what is yours! GO DAWGS!!

We Run the East

July 19th, 2012
3:12 pm

So UGA wins East but South carolina is the best team in the East, finishes higher in BCS standing, gets a better bowl. Just like 2011! Will UGA ever be the BEST team in the East again? Not this year.
Does anyone else notice the building hot seat for CMR on these blogs. CMR’s pants will probably be on fire after Missouri. Definetly after 3 straight losses to SC.

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mad~catfish

July 19th, 2012
3:21 pm

your absoutley right gtbob…most people think 5-7

Sept. 3 – at Virginia Tech-loss

Sept. 8 – Presbyterian-win–closer than you think

Sept. 15 – Virginia-win???? maybe

Sept. 22 – Miami-loss

Sept. 29 – Middle Tennessee State-win

Oct. 6 – at Clemson-loss killed by 21

Oct. 13 – Open date

Oct. 20 – Boston College-loss…just because you typically do…

Oct. 27 – BYU-loss

Nov. 3 – at Maryland-win

Nov. 10 – at North Carolina-loss

Nov. 17 – Duke-win

Nov. 24 – at Georgia-loss slaughtered and made to squeal like a pig then carved like a turkey on thanksgiving weekend yet again.

come to think of it i can’t come up with 5 either…..you know the reasoon i can’t be a tech fan…other than those trashy colors…trashy dorky butt ugly girls and murder scenes on n.avenue. the joke by coke has a way of getting up big and beating someone like idk byu or florida state or clemson or once every 15 years uga then the next week falling flat on there face and getting beat by 21 by either virginia or duke…i dont get it.

VINCE

July 19th, 2012
3:24 pm

Just hope we get past MO with walk-ons in defensive backfield. What a joke.

WDE

July 19th, 2012
3:28 pm

Lets just beat Buffalo and then start thinking about beating Mizzou ….one game at a time….get a win and then move on. Let the game chickens, Vols and Barners run their mouths we have to prove what we can do on the field not in the blogs…

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