Voting reporters picked Auburn to win the SEC overall title, yet the overall vote spread to select Alabama to win the SEC West, which is impossible. The only problem with that? But when it came in balloting for the Western Division, the Crimson Tide had more total points (1,405) than the Tigers (1,362), despite the fact that Auburn had 16 more first-place votes (108 to 92).
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Perhaps this is why the voters are having such a tough time with which Alabama-based team can get it done.
Deemed the dark horse team in the East, the Vols received 36 first place votes in the East while the Dawgs had 166.
Auburn got 96 votes to win the SEC title followed by Alabama with 80.
Past year the Bulldogs were picked to finish second in the East, which is where they finished, though behind Missouri rather than South Carolina, which was the preseason pick. Not surprisingly, Vanderbilt is projected to bring up the rear in the East. South Carolina, Florida and Kentucky each received one vote, and Vanderbilt received none.
Moorey says there aren’t a lot of people bold enough to show up on Alabama day in Ohio State colors, “I feel like me and John Wayne are the only two men who could walk through here and do this today”. “Now, he’s in the starting role”. That also makes no sense given their success of the past three years, but they continue to be disrespected. That’s one of the reasons I came to Georgia.
Curiously, Alabama was picked to win the SEC West, while Auburn was picked to win the SEC. “Our front seven (with senior linebacker Kris Frost and junior defensive end Carl Lawson) should be the strength of our team”.
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While it is still in my mind highly unlikely for interdivisional rivals to meet in the SEC Championship (UGA-AU, UofA-UT, UF-LSU, etc.) due to a previous head-to-head matchup already factoring into their annual eight-game conference slate, all things equal this is the matchup I see happening.
