SEC media days storylines

The SEC West is stacked. LSU is expected to have a top-notch defense, while many are picking Arkansas and Auburn to make a run at Alabama. The question for the Hogs and Tigers is not about offense, but whether their defenses will be good enough. Can Alabama repeat? All Nick Saban needs to do to is ask Urban Meyer how hard it is to repeat. Since the AP poll began in 1950, only 10 preseason No. 1 teams ended up No. 1 at the end of the season. Since 1991, it has happened three times: FSU in 1993 and 1999, and USC in 2004. Alabama is the favorite to be preseason No. 1. [More]

Crimson Tide to repeat

Alabama is favored to repeat as national champion in the Press-Register’s annual composite preseason college football poll from four magazines: Phil Steele, Athlon’s, Sporting News and Lindy’s. Alabama got three first-place votes and 98 of a possible 100 points. Oklahoma got the other first-place vote. Ohio State — which didn’t receive a single No. 1 vote but was the No. 2 pick in three of the four magazines — narrowly trailed the Crimson Tide with 95 points and is No. 2 in the preseason compilation. Six SEC teams — more than any other conference — are ranked in the top 25: Alabama (1), Florida (4), Arkansas (16), Auburn (19), Georgia (20) and LSU (22). [More]

Projected 2010 position awards

Doak Walker Award (running backs): Mark Ingram, Jr., Alabama Ingram became Alabama’s first Heisman Trophy winner last season, carrying the Tide to a national championship with 1,658 rushing yards and 20 total touchdowns. Tennessee LB Nick Reveiz says: “He’s fast, but most of the backs we face are. His main trait is toughness. He’s going to fight for extra yardage every time, and that’s not what the defense wants. You want to play a back that goes down. Mark isn’t like that. He stays up.” Alabama coach Nick Saban says: “The biggest issue here is not allowing people to get complacent, and Mark knows that. We have to make people aware that they have to be focused on the same set of processes that helped them be successful the first time. Nothing in the past is going to help him in the future.” [More]

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