Press release

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  — Georgia has been predicted to win the 2024 SEC Championship, according to a preseason poll of media.

The Bulldogs received 165 votes to be crowned SEC Champion on December 7 in Atlanta at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, with Texas being picked to be the Bulldogs’ opponent in the Longhorns’ first season in the league. Texas received 27 votes to win the SEC Championship.

This will mark the first season since 1991 with no divisions in SEC Football. The participants of the game will be determined during the eight-game regular-season conference schedule as the teams with the two best overall SEC winning percentages.

Only nine times since 1992 (32 years) has the predicted champion prior to the season at SEC Media Days proceeded to win the SEC Championship Game.

The SEC Championship Game has been the most watched conference championship nationally for 15 of the past 16 seasons, including 12 in a row from 2008-2019. The only year it was not No. 1 was 2020 when the SEC did not have a traditional schedule due to the pandemic. The 2023 SEC Championship Game averaged 17.519 million viewers, +61% vs. last year’s game, and peaked with 22.350 million viewers. It was the most-watched Conference Championship Game on any network in five years.

 

SEC PRESEASON MEDIA POLL

2024 SEC CHAMPION

School	Points
Georgia	165
Texas	27
Alabama	12
Ole Miss	4
Vanderbilt	2
LSU	2
South Carolina	1

 

PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH

School	Points
Georgia	3330
Texas	3041
Alabama	2891
Ole Miss	2783
LSU	2322
Missouri	2240
Tennessee	2168
Oklahoma	2022
Texas A&M	1684
Auburn	1382
Kentucky	1371
Florida	1146
South Carolina	923
Arkansas	749
Mississippi State	623
Vanderbilt	293

 

 PRESEASON  ALL-SEC TEAM

OFFENSE

First Team

QB –  Carson Beck, UGA

RB – Trevor Etienne, UGA

RB – Jarquez Hunter, AU

WR –  Luther Burden III, MIZ

WR –  Tre Harris, UM

TE – Caden Prieskorn, UM

OL – Tyler Booker, UA

OL – Will Campbell, LSU

OL – Kelvin Banks Jr., TEX

OL – Tate Ratledge, UGA

C – Cooper Mays, UT

 

Second-Team

QB – Quinn Ewers, TEX

RB –  Raheim Sanders, SC

*RB – CJ Baxter, TEX

*RB – Montrell Johnson Jr., UF

WR – Isaiah Bond, TEX

WR – Kyren Lacy, LSU

TE –  Mason Taylor, LSU

OL – Emery Jones, LSU

OL – Kadyn Proctor, UA

OL –  Xavier Truss, UGA

OL –  Dylan Fairchild, UGA

C –  Parker Brailsford, UA

 

Third Team

QB – Jalen Milroe, UA

RB –  Justice Haynes, UA

RB –  Ulysses Bentley, UM

WR – Deion Burks, OU

WR – Dominic Lovett,  UGA

TE –  Oscar Delp, UGA

OL –  Earnest Greene III, UGA

OL – Marques Cox, UK

OL – Trey Zuhn III, TAMU

OL – Jaeden Roberts, UA

C – Jake Majors, TEX

 

DEFENSE

First Team

DL – James Pearce Jr., UT

DL – Walter Nolen, UM

DL – Deone Walker, UK

DL – Nazir Stackhouse, UGA

LB –  Harold Perkins, LSU

LB –  Danny Stutsman, OU

*LB – Deontae Lawson, UA

*LB – Mykel Williams, UGA

DB –  Malaki Starks, UGA

DB –  Malachi Moore, UA

DB –  Billy Bowman, OU

DB –  Maxwell Hairston, UK

 

Second Team

DL – Shemar Turner, TAMU

DL – Landon Jackson, ARK

DL – Nic Scourton, TAMU

*DL – Tim Smith, UA

*DL –  Jared Ivey, UM

LB – Debo Williams, SC

LB –  Anthony Hill Jr., TEX

LB – Smael Mondon Jr., UGA

DB – Jahdae Barron, TEX

DB – Major Burns, LSU

DB –  Andrew Mukuba, TEX

DB – Malik Muhammad, TEX

 

Third Team

DL  – Tim Keenan III, UA

DL –  Princely Umanmielen , UM

DL – Trey Moore, TEX

DL – Tonka Hemingway, SC

LB –  Jamon “Pop” Dumas-Johnson, UK

LB – Jihaad Campbell, UA

LB –  Eugene Asante, AU

DB – Domani Jackson, UA

DB –  Daylen Everette, UGA

DB –  Jason Marshall Jr., UF

*DB – Keon Sabb, UA

*DB –  Nick Emmanwori, SC

 

SPECIALISTS

First Team

P –  James Burnip, UA

PK – Bert Auburn, TEX

LS – Kneeland Hibbett, UA

KS – Alex McPherson, AU

RS  – Barion Brown, UK

AP – Zavion Thomas, LSU

 

Second Team

P – Brett Thorson, UGA

PK – Graham Nicholson, UA

LS – Hunter Rogers, SC

KS –  Will Stone, TEX

RS – Zavion Thomas, LSU

AP – Dillion Bell, UGA

 

Third Team

P – Jeremy Crawshaw, UF

PK – Alex McPherson, AU

LS – Slade Roy, LSU

KS – Trey Smack, UF

RS – Keionte Scott, AU

*AP – Barion Brown, UK

*AP – Jaydon Blue, TEX