Phil Steele makes SEC predictions for 2018, names preseason All-SEC team
After a long wait, Phil Steele’s annual college football preseason magazine has finally hit the shelves and is available to purchase on newsstands, bookstores and wherever magazines can be found. The magazine can also be purchased directly from Steele at www.philsteele.com.
Upon receiving our copy of the magazine, we flipped immediately to the SEC section of the college football preview magazine and wanted to share Steele’s projections for the upcoming SEC football season.
Here’s how Steele forecasts the league playing out this fall, as well as the full list of players he honored by naming them to his First-Team All-SEC ballot:
SEC East
- #1 – Georgia
- #2 – Florida
- #3 – South Carolina
- #4 – Missouri
- #5 – Kentucky
- #6 – Tennessee
- #7 – Vanderbilt
SEC West
- #1 – Alabama
- #2 – Auburn
- #3 – Mississippi State
- #4 – Texas A&M
- #5 – LSU
- #6 – Arkansas
- #7 – Ole Miss
First-Team All-SEC Offense
- QB – Jarrett Stidham, Auburn
- RB – Benny Snell, Kentucky
- RB – Damien Harris, Alabama
- WR – Emmanuel Hall, Missouri
- WR – Deebo Samuel, South Carolina
- TE – Albert Okwuegbunam, Missouri
- OC – Ross Piershbacher, Alabama
- OL – Hjalte Froholdt, Arkansas
- OL – Greg Little, Ole Miss
- OL – Jonah Williams, Alabama
First-Team All-SEC Defense
- DL – Montez Sweat, Mississippi State
- DL – Jeffery Simmons, Mississippi State
- DL – Terry Beckner, Missouri
- DL – Raekwon Davis, Alabama
- LB – Charles Wright, Vanderbilt
- LB – David Reese, Florida
- LB – Tyrel Dodson, Texas A&M
- DB – Greedy Williams, LSU
- DB – DeAndre Baker, Georgia
- DB – Mike Edwards, Kentucky
- DB – JR Reed, Georgia
First-Team All-SEC Special Teams
- K – Rodrigo Blankenship, Georgia
- P – Corey Fatoney, Missouri
- KR – Deebo Samuel, South Carolina
- PR – Richaud Floyd, Missouri
- LS – Blake Ferguson, LSU
Playoff Predictions
- #1 seed Alabama
- #2 seed Clemson
- #3 seed Ohio State
- #4 seed Washington