Mizzou Football Lands Eight on Preseason All-SEC Team
8/15/2019 11:00:00 AM | Football
Mizzou’s eight selections by league coaches is fifth-most in SEC, second-most in east division
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Football landed eight players on the 2019 Preseason All-SEC Teams as selected by the league's 14 head coaches and announced Thursday (Aug. 15). Mizzou's eight selections to the three All-SEC teams mark the fifth-most by any team and the second-most of any SEC East team, trailing only Georgia.
Mizzou landed three players – senior LB Cale Garrett, junior TE Albert Okwuegbunam and senior OL Tre'Vour Wallace-Simms – on the first team. Only Alabama (10), Georgia (four) and LSU (four) had more first-team selections than Mizzou. Garrett and Wallace-Simms were first team All-SEC honorees following the 2018 season.
Senior CB DeMarkus Acy is a second-team pick heading into the 2019 preseason after earning the same distinction from the league's coaches following the 2018 season. Mizzou had four players – senior OL Yasir Durant, junior DL Jordan Elliott, senior PK Tucker McCann and junior RB Larry Rountree earn spots on the third team.
Mizzou opens the 2019 season in 16 short days as it heads to Laramie, Wyo., for a road opener at Wyoming. It is Mizzou's first true road opener since the 2016 season when the Tigers opened visited West Virginia for the opener.
Mizzou enters the 2019 season coming off consecutive winning campaigns. After the Tigers begin the year at Wyoming (Aug. 31), they will then come home for a five-game homestand that begins Sept. 7 against West Virginia. Tickets are on sale for the 2019 schedule, which will feature seven home contests in all. Visit MUTigers.com for details, or contact the Mizzou Ticket Office at 1-800-CAT-PAWS (884-PAWS locally) with questions.
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