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The circus known as SEC Media Days will descend on Hoover, Alabama, next week, and one of the highlights of the event will be the predicted order of finish of the assembled scribes, radio hosts and television talking heads.
While it's great to see the predictions, it's more of an exercise in comedy than fortune telling. The media has predicted the league champion correctly just six times in the 25 years since the divisional split in 1992, though it did nail Alabama in 2014 and 2016.
What about division predictions, though?
We looked back at the media predictions since the 2012 expansion to determine which teams are perennially overrated and underrated leading up to each season. Teams are ranked based on their final standing within the division relative to where they were picked in the preseason media poll. In the case of ties, head-to-head results and standard SEC tiebreaker procedures were used to prevent ties being factored into the final standings.
SEC Hype Meter: Which teams are overrated and underrated every offseason?
While it's great to see the predictions, it's more of an exercise in comedy than fortune telling. The media has predicted the league champion correctly just six times in the 25 years since the divisional split in 1992, though it did nail Alabama in 2014 and 2016.
What about division predictions, though?
We looked back at the media predictions since the 2012 expansion to determine which teams are perennially overrated and underrated leading up to each season. Teams are ranked based on their final standing within the division relative to where they were picked in the preseason media poll. In the case of ties, head-to-head results and standard SEC tiebreaker procedures were used to prevent ties being factored into the final standings.
SEC Hype Meter: Which teams are overrated and underrated every offseason?
