LSU Picked to Win SEC Regular-Season Championship

We are just a hair over a week away from first pitch and the defending national champion LSU Tigers were picked by the SEC’s head coaches to win the league.

LSU received nine votes from the sixteen head coaches, more than double the next closest team. Mississippi State received four first-place votes, Arkansas got two, and Texas got one vote. Even though Mississippi State got more first-place votes, it was the Longhorns who were projected to finish second in the league followed by State, Arkansas and Auburn.

LSU’s the premier program in the conference, but the Tigers are on a near-decade long drought since its last SEC Championship. The Tigers last regular season championship came in 2017, which was also the last time the Tigers won the SEC Tournament. Of course, LSU has hoisted two national championship trophies over that span so who am I to complain?

The SEC’s head coaches also picked five Tigers for the conference’s preseason teams. Derek Curiel, Casan Evans, and Zac Cowan landed on the First-Team, while Steven Milam and Jake Brown were Second-Team selections.

The preseason SEC predictions are as follows:

1. LSU
2. Texas
3. Mississippi State
4. Arkansas
5. Auburn
6. Tennessee
7. Florida
8. Vanderbilt
9. Georgia
10. Ole Miss
11. Kentucky
12. Alabama
13. Texas A&M
14. Oklahoma
15. South Carolina
16. Missouri