USA Today released its preseason coaches poll this morning and Auburn comes in at No. 11. That sounds just about right to me. I think they might wind up being better than that, but they've got enough question marks coming into the season that I don't know that they belong higher than 11th just yet.

Interestingly, Georgia is No. 1 -- the first time in school history the Bulldogs have been the top-ranked team in a major preseason poll -- and yet they weren't picked to win the SEC East recently at Media Days. UGA received 22 first-place votes to second-ranked USC's 14.

Third-ranked Ohio State also received 14 first-place votes, fourth-ranked Oklahoma got three, fifth-ranked Florida got five and sixth-ranked LSU got three. Along the same lines as at media days, the coaches also differ here with the SEC media, who picked Auburn over LSU in the SEC West. All that voting stuff really means nothing. We're just making conversation here.

Only one other SEC team, No. 18 Tennessee, cracked the top 25. Leading off the "others receiving votes" category, just behind No. 25 Fresno State, were Alabama and South Carolina.