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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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mad~catfish

July 19th, 2012
3:29 pm

you run the east huh….well then lets also take a look at the s. carolina schedule…..

2012-2013 SCHEDULE
08/30/12 at Vanderbilt # TV
09/08/12 vs. East Carolina
09/15/12 vs. UAB TV
09/22/12 vs. Missouri #
09/29/12 at Kentucky #
10/06/12 vs. Georgia #
10/13/12 at LSU #
10/20/12 at Florida #
10/27/12 vs. Tennessee #
11/10/12 vs. Arkansas #
11/17/12 vs. Wofford
11/24/12 at Clemson

you play missouri , kentucky ,uga, lsu, florida, tennesse , arkansas all back to back with one off week in there after tennessee…i will be honest with ya there it is a real good possibility to loose 5 or 6 straight right there,,,,may not happen i will say prob won’t happen but you guys come through that with only one loss or none at all…hell i will bring you the sec east trophy and bow down to you myself in person, good luck

bitter spoiled recruit

July 19th, 2012
3:31 pm

Look at all the leadership in the SEC at QB——JORDAN ROGERS–VANDY

————————–METT—-LSU

———————————BAMMA’S SENIOR QB

—————————MURRY—JAWGER

——————————————SHAW———-CHICKENS

———————AR/KANSAS———WHAT’S HIS NAME

————————–TEXAS A/M—–6′5″ QB

———————————-MIZZO————-FAST AND CAN THROW

—————–THE SEC IS LOADED———-DONT FORGET THE GREAT ARM AT —TEEN-UR-SAY

————————-GOING TO BE UPSETS EVERYWHERE—–GET READY FOR THE BEST

———————–YEAR EVER—————IVE SPOKEN TROLLS

bitter spoiled recruit

July 19th, 2012
3:49 pm

JORDAN ROGERS IS MY –DARK HORSE —FOR TOP COLLAGE QB—-

HE WILL BE BETTER THAN HIS BROTHER AT GREEN BAY

WDE

July 19th, 2012
3:50 pm

@bitter spoiled recruit I’m sure hoping he plays the best game of his life in the opener !

bitter spoiled recruit

July 19th, 2012
3:52 pm

VANDY WILL WIN 10 GAMES THIS YEAR AND FRANKLIN WILL TAKE OVER AT

———————————————-FLA—RA—DAH———-GATORS GO 4-8

Alexis

July 19th, 2012
3:56 pm

Big Orange Country…GO VOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GTBob

July 19th, 2012
4:07 pm

your absoutley right gtbob…most people think 5-7

If most people think that then it will be easy for you to provide a link. Show us all of the great minds out there that are predicting GT to go 5-7. The over under in Vegas is 7.5 wins, but what do they know?

Rooster

July 19th, 2012
4:08 pm

wrong again!!!!!! hehehhahahahahohohoho

Ticket Tax

July 19th, 2012
4:12 pm

‘I probably shouldn’t have said that. I’m just a regular old coach,”

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July 19th, 2012
4:16 pm

[...] Media vote: Georgia will win SEC East [...]

I dropped my fried twinkie

July 19th, 2012
4:31 pm

Red Panties full of hash browns and pot brownies makes the season go so much better.

TampaGator

July 19th, 2012
5:01 pm

What the media thinks in July means little or nothing about what will really happen in the fall. How many days until kickoff?

Go Gators!

TampaGator

July 19th, 2012
5:03 pm

@Bitter spoiled recruit……

You keep on posting and believing that.

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July 19th, 2012
5:16 pm

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bitter spoiled recruit

July 19th, 2012
5:50 pm

No offence tampa” cigar” gator but– Coach Will– is running off 5 star players faster than

@a person so dumb cook’s burgers at the varsity———-hahahahaha–fry cook

trueblueeagle

July 19th, 2012
5:58 pm

mud catfish
1 the U lost most of starting football team last year
2. Tech has Clemson number
3 once tech gets past VT nobody else should beat them

bitter spoiled recruit

July 19th, 2012
6:00 pm

This year will be the most outraygous of any year on recrord, –we may have a 2 loss SEC Champ

—————–look at the shed—uall, the last 2 weeks will benifit UGA

georgia will lose to the chickens and possible vandy, but we will squik in due to chickens lossing 3

Bamma will lose 5 this year and saban will have a stroke on national T.V after tyler bray lights

them up for 50 points.———-ar-kannas will score 60 on the tide in front of the home folks

and SABAN will suffer 2nd STROKE on national T.V.—he will then RETIRE

Tide will lose last 3 games—————-THE SWAINNIE HAS SPOKEN

Ray

July 19th, 2012
6:10 pm

Again Georgia will back into the SECCG for a second straight year people talked about Florida Schedule a few years ago when Tebow was there and they faced The Citadel. Looking at our Schedule Georgia Southern are you freakin kidding me? That’s a load of crap if we do go undefeated mark my words we’ll be the most scrutinized team in the history of the SEC because just how soft our schedule is.

I honestly don’t want that, and AARON MURRAY IS NOT A HEISMAN QB GET THAT TALK OUT OF HERE!

Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville

July 19th, 2012
6:23 pm

LOL

They are picking us to lose against Missouri

LOL

This coaching staff loses to Missouri they better have their bags packed

TampaGator

July 19th, 2012
6:40 pm

Bitter Recruit…..

What 5-star player has Muschamp “run off?” If you mean, asking players to leave the program for repeated drug arrests and another player for physically attacking a girlfriend….. well yes….Muschamp is “running those players off” and out of the program. Frankly, I don’t know a single person in GatorNation that has an issue with that approach. But I guess you do….as a non Gator.

Mark Richt

July 19th, 2012
8:37 pm

SHUT UP hoot dawg

Dogs Smell

July 19th, 2012
8:38 pm

Cant wait for the season to start and after the first 2 SEC losses the request for CMR to be fired !

Dogs Smell

July 19th, 2012
8:43 pm

hoot dog has never been to a college on a weekday.

Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville

July 19th, 2012
8:45 pm

hoot dawg

lay off the brownies ok

Rooty Tooty

July 19th, 2012
8:52 pm

Hot off the press…Uga will play Ft Valley St for the SEC East title. CMR will say that if all the players had been there, several had to clean up trash off the highway that day, they would have won.

Boneheads

July 20th, 2012
5:04 am

You want see a joke Missouri wins East in first year in SEC plays LSU for SEC title and beats them in atlanta Georgia dome knockin God sent me to LSU out of game in 2nd quarter as Mizzu routs Kittys 44-14….win first SEC title….mark that down SEC people!

Deepdiver

July 20th, 2012
5:36 am

It would be embarrassing is Georgia had an 8-4 season with this cupcake schedule.

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July 20th, 2012
10:44 am

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Answer man.

July 20th, 2012
1:38 pm

Refer back to this list at the end of the season.

Blah

July 20th, 2012
1:42 pm

Agreed, Mizzou and SC…focus, focus, focus-

Reporter Dawg

July 20th, 2012
4:35 pm

As a 40-year fan of UGA, I can usually gauge a Georgia team. Although this team is multi-talented, they will not win the SEC East this season. South Carolina will. Georgia will lose at least twice, possibllity three times. I have a very uneasy feeling about games against Tennessee (I sense some overconfidence there similar to 2004), Auburn and South Carolina who is at least as talented and much better coached. I see a South Carolina-LSU championship game, and won’t surprise me if SC wins their first SEC title (and likely last) under Spurrier. I hope I am wrong, becauss a 9-3 finish for UGA will firmly place Richt on the hot seat for 2013 (he will HAVE to win an SEC Title within three seasons or depart).

Reporter Dawg

July 20th, 2012
4:39 pm

Boneheads, Missouri will not win an SEC Title at anytime over the next 20 years. Make it 25. A&M at least has a chance, but doubtful. Misso will be lucky to win 7 games in 2012. The SEC is not the defense-less Big 12. Bama would have beaten OK State by 50 last season. Seriously.

Reporter Dawg

July 20th, 2012
4:41 pm

Apparently there are a number of drunk people posting today. Swainnie a great example.

David

July 20th, 2012
7:32 pm

Yeh overrated Georgia team picked AGAIN you had the easiest schedule in the east last year and still got blown out in the Sec Championship game and lost the Bowl game to a team that had to kick a field goal to beat “Ohio State 10-7 …….You will lose to Vandy this year……

gt4ever

July 21st, 2012
9:47 pm

The beauty of being a UGA fan…. Pre season all stars, and end of season under achievers….. Priceless….

haha

July 21st, 2012
11:51 pm

preseason national champions your Georgia Bulldogs. Someone forgot to tell the media that there is a regular season where you actually have to do your talking on the field. haha.

Stan

July 22nd, 2012
10:00 am

How can anyone predict how Georgia will fare when you dont know who will still be on the team at the end of the season

The Factor

July 22nd, 2012
11:42 pm

@GTBob
How old ARE you, 12? If you look at the history of SEC divisional play, you will see the EAST has been the more dominant side with the exception of the last few years. Should we have broken up the East? And, even when Tech was a part of the SEC many years ago, the conference rotated it’s schedule without the influence of the local school (as I see you have commented more than once on our conference schedule this year). What a pinhead! That is like saying FSU or Wake can determine who and when they play different schools in the ACC. Many a title has been won when the schedule sets up right. Just ask SoCal…

The Factor

July 23rd, 2012
12:14 am

By the way, Las Vegas has UGA at # 7 and 12/1 odds at winning the 2013 BCS NC. Five SEC teams in top 10 odds. Bama 2 at 9/2, LSU 2 at 6/1, UGA 7 12/1 , UF 9 at 20/1. SoCal odds-on fav at 3/1.

Alphare

July 23rd, 2012
8:40 am

UGA East and LSU West? Do you mean Alabama will win NC again?

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