ATLANTA, Ga. — It almost sounds like a broken record. Alabama is once again the media’s preseason favorite heading into the 2018 season.

Friday morning the SEC released the media’s predicted order of finish for the SEC, and the Tide are expected to win the conference. The Georgia Bulldogs won the SEC Championship in 2017, and most figure the Dawgs and Tide — a rematch of the national championship — to meet in Atlanta for the conference championship.

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Here’s the entire predicted order of finish, according to the media, for 2018:

SEC Champion

  • Alabama (193)
  • Georgia (69)
  • Auburn (14)
  • South Carolina (4)
  • Florida (2)
  • Mississippi State (1)
  • Missouri (1)

SEC East (1st Place votes in parenthesis)

#1 — Georgia (271): 1977

#2 — South Carolina (8): 1535

#3 — Florida (4): 1441

#4 — Missouri: 1057

#5 — Kentucky (1): 874

#6 — Tennessee (1): 704

#7 — Vanderbilt: 392

SEC West (1st Place votes in parenthesis)

#1 — Alabama (263): 1971

#2 — Auburn (19): 1664

#3 — Mississippi State (2): 1239

#4 — Texas A&M: 1091

#5 — LSU: 1025

# 6 — Ole Miss: 578

# 7 — Arkansas: 412