Last year at this time, all the college football world was atwitter -- and all of Twitter was abuzz -- over the fact that one coach had the audacity to leave Tim Tebow off the first-team All-SEC preseason ballot.
As it turns out, it was Steve Spurrier who did the Tebow dissing, although the South Carolina head coach promptly threw his director of football operations under the bus after the “snub” blew up into something that was head-scratchingly huge.
That was last year. This year? All quiet on the All-SEC controversy front.
The coaches’ All-SEC was revealed late Tuesday morning, however, and defending SEC and national champion Alabama led the way with six first-team selections. Florida had a total of ten players named to the first- and second-teams, while Alabama had a total of nine players named to both teams.
Only Mississippi State and Tennessee failed to land a player on the first-team, while Ole Miss had just a single player voted onto the preseason teams by the coaches.
Five players who were voted to last year’s first-team All-SEC by the coaches -- C Mike Pouncey (Florida), WR A.J. Green (Georgia), RB Mark Ingram (Alabama), DB Mark Barron (Alabama) and P Drew Butler (Georgia) -- were repeat selections a year later.
Here’s the full list of first- and second-team All-SEC selections as voted on by the 12 conference head coaches. Or their director of football operations, whatever the case may be.
