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South Carolina Gamecocks picked to win SEC East; four named to all-conference list

By Sydney Hunte

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Earlier this week, we heard South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Steve Spurrier talk in laudatory fashion about the recruiting ability of Alabama coach Nick Saban. Despite that, he quipped that the team with the best players doesn’t always win–rather, it’s sometimes the team that plays the best.

The media seems to think that those two will get a shot at each other on December 6 in Atlanta.

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    • The SEC Media Poll was just released, and it has the Gamecocks winning the SEC East and the Tide winning the SEC West and the overall conference title. Conveniently.

    It’s probably not much of a surprise that either one was picked to win their respective divisions. But as we’ve seen in the past, the teams themselves have provided some surprises of their own.

    Last year, Alabama was picked to win the West while Auburn came in fifth in the voting after an 0-8 conference season in 2012. We all know the rest of the story: the Tigers went 7-1 in league play and clinched the division on the ESPY-winning Kick Six in the Iron Bowl against Alabama, before topping Missouri in Atlanta and heading to the BCS National Championship.

    Mizzou, last year’s SEC East champion, was picked to finish sixth in 2013. Not quite. They went 7-1 in league play themselves to punch their own ticket to the SEC Championship Game, where they lost to Auburn.

    Here’s the entire poll. Alabama was picked to win the West, and the conference, as mentioned, followed by Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Texas A&M and Arkansas. In the East, Georgia came second in voting, followed by Florida, Missouri, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Kentucky.

    Biggest surprise: the drop of Texas A&M and Vandy minus Johnny Manziel and former Commodores coach James Franklin (now at Penn State) and some major pieces in nashville, respectively. As I said above, there’s a great chance these won’t be the exact order of finish at the end of the year, but it shows the media’s confidence in those three have dropped.

    The Gamecocks also landed four on the All-SEC team.

    Unsurprisingly, RB Mike Davis made the list, but placed on the second team, not the first. OLs A.J. Cann and Corey Robinson joined him on the second team, while DB Brison Williams made the third team.

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