If I could guarantee you which player and/or team was going to lead the SEC in interceptions for the 2015 season, believe me, I’d somehow use that knowledge to my advantage and be living somewhere on a Caribbean beach by January.

It’s a crapshoot statistic to project, even in the NFL. “Interceptions champion” is just not something a player repeats.

And we won’t have a repeat SEC leader in 2015. That’s because in 2014, Ole Miss cornerback and All-American Senquez Golson led the conference with 10 picks. He became the first Rebels player to be named a unanimous first-team All-American since offensive tackle Michael Oher (of “The Blind Side” fame) in 2008.

Golson’s biggest pick last year and probably his career was in the end zone against top-ranked Alabama to seal the Rebels’ 23-17 victory. Golson intercepted a pass from Blake Sims in the end zone with 37 seconds remaining. Golson was at first ruled out of bounds, but replays showed he cradled the pass with his left hand and landed just inside the end zone.

Golson was chosen in the second round of the 2015 draft by the Steelers. Unfortunately, he might miss the 2015 season after undergoing shoulder surgery. Golson was the second straight Ole Miss player to lead the SEC in picks. Cody Prewitt did with six in 2013. No other SEC player has reached double-digit interceptions this century.

Terry Hoage set the SEC single-season record with 12 interceptions for Georgia in 1982. Other players with 10 picks in a season were Ole Miss’ Bobby Wilson on 1949, Alabama’s Hootie Ingram in 1952, Georgia’s Jake Scott in 1968, Tennessee’s Bobby Majors in 1970 and Georgia’s Ben Smith in 1989. So don’t expect a double-digit leader again.

Two Auburn players, safety Jermaine Whitehead and cornerback Jonathan Jones, finished second to Golson last year with six. Whitehead is an undrafted free agent trying to make the San Francisco 49ers’ roster.

Jones does return. He received the Zeke Smith Award as Auburn’s 2014 defensive player of the year. So Jones is as good as any place to start with individual favorites for 2015. Auburn’s defense should also be much more stout this year under new coordinator Will Muschamp. Jones was on the preseason All-SEC first team.

My individual choice for this season is Florida’s Vernon Hargreaves III, another preseason first-team All-SEC member. In fact, Hargreaves got more votes than any other defender. He was a second-team All-American last year and should be a top-10 pick in the 2016 NFL draft.

He had three picks last year, including one in the end zone late in the fourth quarter of the Birmingham Bowl against East Carolina to seal the win. Hargreaves was first in the SEC with 13 pass breakups. The only worry with Hargreaves is that he’s such a good cornerback that teams might avoid throwing his way.

Auburn and Ole Miss tied for the SEC team lead in 2014 with 22 picks. Next were Florida, Georgia, Mississippi State and Tennessee with 16. Texas A&M brought up the rear with only five.

The Aggies had the worst rush defense overall in the conference so teams didn’t have to throw as  much against them. The No. 1 pass defense in the SEC last year was LSU, which allowed only 164.2 yards per game. The Tigers picked off just 10 passes, however.

My team choice is LSU. The Tigers should have the best secondary in the nation and had three players land on the All-SEC team: Jalen Mills (first team), Tre’Davious White (second team) and Jamal Adams (third team). Mills will miss the first few games, however, with a fractured fibula.

But teams aren’t going to be able to run  much on the Tigers so they are going to have to throw the ball. Good luck with that.