Texas, with Heisman Trophy candidate Arch Manning set to take over as beginning quarterback, is the preseason decide to win the Southeastern Convention championship.
The Longhorns acquired 96 of the 204 votes forged from media members overlaying the SEC media days this week to be topped SEC champion on Dec. 6 in Atlanta at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Georgia, with 44 votes, acquired the second-most votes.
If that state of affairs performs out, it will imply a rematch of the 2024 SEC championship sport, which Georgia gained in an additional time thriller. The SEC championship sport pits the 2 groups with one of the best regular-season convention file towards each other.
Alabama was third with 29 votes, whereas LSU acquired 20. South Carolina was subsequent with 5, whereas Oklahoma acquired three and Vanderbilt and Florida every acquired two votes. Tennessee, Ole Miss and Auburn every acquired one vote.
Since 1992, solely 10 instances has the expected champion within the preseason ballot gone on to win the SEC championship.
The 2024 SEC title sport averaged 16.6 million viewers throughout ABC and ESPN, the fourth-largest viewers on file for the sport. The additional time win for Georgia, which peaked with 19.7 million viewers, delivered the biggest viewers of the school soccer season.