{"id":386173,"date":"2026-07-25T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386173\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:40:08","slug":"texas-football-team-honored-as-sec-releases-preseason-poll-and-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386173\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas football team honored as SEC releases preseason poll and honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

One day after Texas football<\/a> coach Steve Sarkisian stated at SEC media days that “we do have a talented roster,” the reporters who cover the conference didn’t seem to disagree.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Texas was picked to finish second in the SEC’s preseason poll. The Longhorns placed 11 different players on the SEC’s preseason team.<\/p>\n

The SEC’s preseason poll and honor roll were decided by votes from the league’s media members. Earlier in the week, the SEC hosted four days of media activities<\/a> for its 16 teams in Tampa, Fla.<\/p>\n

With 2,449 points, Texas finished behind just Georgia (2,519) in a\u00a0preseason poll that had Ole Miss (2,004), Texas A&M (1,967)<\/a> and LSU (1,961) round out its top five spots. Eight of the SEC’s 16 teams received a first-place vote from the poll’s 164 participants, but\u00a0two-time defending champion Georgia (88)<\/a> and Texas (57) were the only programs that had at least seven voters tab them as the preseason favorites.<\/p>\n

Texas also took up a dozen slots on the SEC’s preseason team as two-time pick Ryan Niblett<\/a> joined 11 of his teammates on the honor roll. Like Texas, Georgia and Oklahoma were honored a league-high 12 times on the team. Vanderbilt, which was picked to finish 13th, was the only team that was shut out by the league’s media members.<\/p>\n

Since joining the SEC in 2024, Texas has gone 13-3 in conference contests. The Longhorns reached the SEC championship game during their debut campaign, but finished in a fifth-place tie in last season’s league standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian stated at SEC media days that “we do have a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[261,3232,135265,27,29,537,536,28],"class_list":["post-386173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-football","tag-sec-conference-football","tag-sec-football-media-days","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}