SEC Football 2024 Preseason Poll: Georgia picked to finish first, full preseason All-SEC

With SEC Football Media Days wrapping up Thursday in Dallas, the final countdown to Week 0 is well and truly underway.

And with that comes the release of the SEC Football Preseason Poll on Friday, to which at no surprise — despite the addition of Texas — Georgia was once again picked to finish atop of the SEC.

Kirby Smart’s Bulldogs were picked to be the outright SEC champions, as the additions of Texas and Oklahoma got rid of the SEC East and SEC West Divisions for the first time since 1991. Texas received the second-most first-place votes to win the SEC behind Georgia.

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The Kalen DeBoer-led Alabama Crimson Tide received 12 first-place votes with Ole Miss rounding out the top four with four votes. And somehow, given its projection to finish dead last at 16 in the overall preseason poll, Vanderbilt once again received two first-place votes.

Georgia quarterback Carson Beck, LSU offensive lineman Will Campbell and Alabama offensive lineman Tyler Booker headline the preseason All-SEC First Team Offense. Newly joined SEC quarterback Quinn Ewers (Texas) was given preseason All-SEC Second Team honors while Alabama junior quarterback Jalen Milroe received third team.

Here’s a look at the full 2024 SEC Football Media Preseason Poll, including who made the All-SEC Preseason Teams:

SEC Champion

First place votes in parentheses

1. Georgia (165)

2. Texas (27)

3. Alabama (12)

4. Ole Miss (4)

5. Vanderbilt (2)

6. LSU (2)

7. South Carolina (1)

SEC Football Preseason Poll 2024

1. Georgia

2. Texas

3. Alabama

4. Ole Miss

5. LSU

6. Missouri

7. Tennessee

8. Oklahoma

9. Texas A&M

10. Auburn

11. Kentucky

12. Florida

13. South Carolina

14. Arkansas

15. Mississippi State

16. Vanderbilt

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2024 SEC Football preseason team selections

Offense

First Team

• QB –  Carson Beck, Georgia

• RB – Trevor Etienne, Georgia

• RB – Jarquez Hunter, Auburn

• WR –  Luther Burden III, Missouri

• WR –  Tre Harris, Ole Miss

• TE – Caden Prieskorn, Ole Miss

• OL – Tyler Booker, Alabama

• OL – Will Campbell, LSU

• OL – Kelvin Banks Jr., Texas

• OL – Tate Ratledge, Georgia

• C – Cooper Mays, Tennessee

Second Team

• QB – Quinn Ewers, Texas

• RB –  Raheim Sanders, South Carolina

• *RB – CJ Baxter, Texas

• *RB – Montrell Johnson Jr., Florida

• WR – Isaiah Bond, Texas

• WR – Kyren Lacy, LSU

• TE –  Mason Taylor, LSU

• OL – Emery Jones, LSU

• OL – Kadyn Proctor, Auburn

• OL –  Xavier Truss, Georgia

• OL –  Dylan Fairchild, Georgia

• C –  Parker Brailsford, Alabama

Third Team

• QB – Jalen Milroe, Alabama

• RB –  Justice Haynes, Alabama

• RB –  Ulysses Bentley, Ole Miss

• WR – Deion Burks, Oklahoma

• WR – Dominic Lovett, Georgia

• TE –  Oscar Delp, Georgia

• OL –  Earnest Greene III, Georgia

• OL – Marques Cox, Kentucky

• OL – Trey Zuhn III, Texas A&M

• OL – Jaeden Roberts, Alabama

• C – Jake Majors, Texas  

* denotes a tie

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Defense

First-Team

• DL – James Pearce Jr., Tennessee 

• DL – Walter Nolen, Ole Miss 

• DL – Deone Walker, Kentucky

• DL – Nazir Stackhouse, Georgia

• LB –  Harold Perkins, LSU  

• LB –  Danny Stutsman, Oklahoma

• *LB – Deontae Lawson, Alabama

• *LB – Mykel Williams, Georgia

• DB –  Malaki Starks, Georgia

• DB –  Malachi Moore, Alabama

• DB –  Billy Bowman, Oklahoma

• DB –  Maxwell Hairston, Kentucky

Second Team

• DL – Shemar Turner, Texas A&M

• DL – Landon Jackson, Arkansas

• DL – Nic Scourton, Texas A&M

• *DL – Tim Smith, Alabaam

• *DL –  Jared Ivey, Ole Miss

• LB – Debo Williams, South Carolina

• LB –  Anthony Hill Jr., Texas

• LB – Smael Mondon Jr., Georgia 

• DB – Jahdae Barron, Texas

• DB – Major Burns, LSU 

• DB –  Andrew Mukuba, Texas

• DB – Malik Muhammad, Texas

Third Team

• DL  – Tim Keenan III, Alabama

• DL –  Princely Umanmielen , Ole Miss

• DL – Trey Moore, Texas

• DL – Tonka Hemingway, South Carolina

• LB –  Jamon “Pop” Dumas-Johnson, Kentucku

• LB – Jihaad Campbell, Alabama

• LB –  Eugene Asante, Auburn

• DB – Domani Jackson, Alabama 

• DB –  Daylen Everette, Georgia

• DB –  Jason Marshall Jr., Florida

• *DB – Keon Sabb, Alabama

• *DB –  Nick Emmanwori, South Carolina

* denotes a tie

Specialists

First Team

• P –  James Burnip, Alabama

• PK – Bert Auburn, Texas

• LS – Kneeland Hibbett, Alabama

• KS – Alex McPherson, Auburn

• RS  – Barion Brown, Kentucky 

• AP – Zavion Thomas, LSU

Second Team

• P – Brett Thorson, Georgia

• PK – Graham Nicholson, Alabama

• LS – Hunter Rogers, South Carolina

• KS –  Will Stone, Texas

• RS – Zavion Thomas, LSU

• AP – Dillion Bell, Georgia

Third Team

• P – Jeremy Crawshaw, Florida

• PK – Alex McPherson, Auburn

• LS – Slade Roy, LSU

• KS – Trey Smack, Florida

• RS – Keionte Scott, Auburn

• *AP – Barion Brown, Kentucky

• *AP – Jaydon Blue, Texas

* Denotes a tie

This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: SEC Football 2024 Preseason Poll: Georgia picked to win, full preseason All-SEC teams