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Georgia picked to finish second in SEC for 2025 season

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Georgia head coach Kirby Smart before Georgia’s game against Mississippi State on Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. (Conor Dillon/UGAAA)

Unlike the past two seasons, Georgia was not picked to win the SEC by league media. Votes have been tallied from SEC Media Days and the Bulldogs are picked to finish second with 44 votes. Texas is the runaway favorite with more than double UGA’s votes. The Longhorns have 96 votes.

In terms of points, however, the race was a little tighter. Texas came in at 3,060 points while Georgia was at 2,957. Alabama is predicted to finish third with 29 first-place votes and 2,783 points. LSU got 20 first-place votes and 2,668 points to finish fourth and South Carolina, with five first-place votes and 2,109 points, rounds out the top five.

Florida, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Tennessee, and Oklahoma round out the top 10, in that order. Auburn, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi State rank 11 through 16 in the league per media voting. Georgia is set to play two of the top three teams in Texas and Alabama in the regular season. The Bulldogs get both at home.

UGA also has five of the top 10 teams on its regular-season schedule. It gets Florida in Jacksonvile, Ole Miss at home, and Tennessee on the road. The Bulldogs will also play Auburn, ranked No. 11, on the road and it will get the two worst teams in the league, Kentucky and Mississippi State. The Wildcats will come to Athens while MSU will host Georgia in Starkville.

League voting projects Georgia to make the SEC championship for the fifth straight year and the eighth time under Kirby Smart. The Bulldogs were picked to win the SEC last year and delivered, beating Texas for a second time away from Athens by a score of 22-19 in overtime. This year’s starting quarterback, Gunner Stockton, helped engineer a second-half comeback after Carson Beck was lost for the rest of the season on the last play of the first half.

When Georgia was picked to win the league in 2023, it couldn’t deliver. Alabama won that game 27-24 and snapped the Bulldogs 39-game win streak. The loss kept UGA out of the College Football Playoff and dashed its chances of winning three straight National Championships.

The last time Georgia wasn’t picked to win the SEC was 2022. Alabama was the overwhelming pick that season. The Bulldogs went 15-0 that season and won a National Title.

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