The SEC announced its coaches’ All-SEC selections on Thursday and, as you can imagine, these teams would be near impossible to beat on a field. Obviously, they’re stacked with the best players from college football’s most competitive conference. But they’d be extra-impossible to beat because the offense would take the field with 12 players on each side of the ball.
Some leagues name 15 or more players to their all-league teams, though, so the SEC isn’t the worst offender on the block. But, still, come on.
Anyway, here’s the first team:
First Team Offense
QB - Chad Kelly, Ole Miss
RB - Leonard Fournette, LSU
RB - Nick Chubb, Georgia
WR - Calvin Ridley, Alabama
WR - Christian Kirk, Texas A&M
TE - O.J. Howard, Alabama
C - Ethan Pocic, LSU
OL - Cam Robinson, Alabama
OL - Dan Skipper, Arkansas
OL - Greg Pyke, Georgia
OL - Alex Kozan, Auburn
AP - Christian Kirk, Texas A&M
First Team Defense
DL - Myles Garrett, Texas A&M
DL - Jonathan Allen, Alabama
DL - Derek Barnett, Tennessee
DL - Carl Lawson, Auburn
LB - Reuben Foster, Alabama
LB - Kendell Beckwith, LSU
LB - Jalen Reeves-Maybin, Tennessee
LB - Jarrad Davis, Florida
DB - Eddie Jackson, Alabama
DB - Jalen Tabor, Florida
DB - Cameron Sutton, Tennessee
DB - Tre’Davious White, LSU
Specialists
PK - Daniel Carlson, Auburn
P - J.K. Scott, Alabama
RS - Christian Kirk, Texas A&M
RS - Evan Berry, Tennessee
The coaches’ selections speak to the power imbalance in the conference; 20 of the 28 first-team slots (71 percent) went to West Division players. Of the eight East players chosen, half hail from Tennessee. Alabama comprised a quarter of the team with seven selections, followed by LSU and Texas A&M matching Tennessee’s four -- although A&M’s selections were really just Myles Garrett plus Christian Kirk in three separate positions.
The SEC’s season begins a week from tonight when Tennessee hosts Appalachian State (7:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network) and South Carolina visits Vanderbilt (8 p.m. ET, ESPN).