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07/18 15:33 CDT Texas picked to win SEC championship with Arch Manning at QB
Texas picked to win SEC championship with Arch Manning at QB
By The Associated Press
Texas, with Heisman Trophy candidate Arch Manning set to take over as starting
quarterback, is the preseason pick to win the Southeastern Conference
championship.
The Longhorns received 96 of the 204 votes cast from media members covering the
SEC media days this week to be crowned SEC champion on Dec. 6 in Atlanta at
Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Georgia, with 44 votes, received the second-most votes.
If that scenario plays out, it would mean a rematch of the 2024 SEC
championship game, which Georgia won in an overtime thriller. The SEC
championship game pits the two teams with the best regular-season conference
record against one another.
Alabama was third with 29 votes, while LSU got 20. South Carolina was next with
five, while Oklahoma received three and Vanderbilt and Florida each got two
votes. Tennessee, Ole Miss and Auburn each received one vote.
Since 1992, only 10 times has the predicted champion in the preseason poll gone
on to win the SEC championship.
The 2024 SEC title game averaged 16.6 million viewers across ABC and ESPN, the
fourth-largest audience on record for the game. The overtime win for Georgia,
which peaked with 19.7 million viewers, delivered the largest audience of the
college football season.
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AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and
https://apnews.com/hub/college-football
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