The 2001 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season.

The LSU Tigers won the conference, upsetting the Tennessee Volunteers 31 to 20 in the SEC Championship game. Tennessee had previously upset the preseason #1 Florida Gators 34 to 32 in a game rescheduled due to the 9/11 Attacks. All three teams finished in top ten of both the AP and coaches poll, with Florida and Tennessee ranking in both of the top five. Florida led the conference with five consensus first-team All-SEC selections by both the AP and the coaches. Both LSU and Tennessee tied for second with three.

Florida quarterback Rex Grossman, the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy, was voted the coaches SEC Player of the Year and AP SEC Offensive Player of the Year. Florida defensive end Alex Brown was the AP SEC Defensive Player of the Year.

Offensive selections

Quarterbacks

Running backs

Wide receivers

Centers

  • Zac Zedalis, Florida (AP-2 [as g], Coaches-1)
  • Alonzo Ephraim, Alabama (AP-1)
  • Ben Claxton, Ole Miss (AP-2, Coaches-2)
  • Curt McGill, Georgia (AP-2, Coaches-2)

Guards

  • Fred Weary, Tennessee (AP-1, Coaches-1)
  • Kendall Simmons, Auburn (AP-1, Coaches-1)
  • Kenny Sandlin, Alabama (AP-2)
  • Shane Hall, South Carolina (Coaches-2)

Tackles

Tight ends

Defensive selections

Defensive ends

Defensive tackles

Linebackers

Cornerbacks

Safeties

  • Pig Prather, Miss. St. (AP-1, Coaches-2)
  • Todd Johnson, Florida (AP-1, Coaches-2)
  • Ken Hamlin, Arkansas (AP-1)
  • Andre Lott, Tennessee (Coaches-1)
  • Rashad Faison, South Carolina (AP-2)
  • Josh Morgan, Miss. St. (AP-2)

Special teams

Kickers

Punters

All purpose/return specialist

Key

Bold = Consensus first-team selection by both the coaches and AP

AP = Associated Press.[1]

Coaches = Selected by the SEC coaches[2][3]

* = unanimous selection of AP

# = unanimous selection of the coaches

† = Unanimous selection of both AP and Coaches

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Five Vols Named to Associated Press All-SEC Teams". December 4, 2001. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Tennessee Places Seven Players on Coaches' All-SEC Squads". December 5, 2001.
  3. ↑ "All-SEC Coaches Picks". The Index-Journal. December 6, 2001. p. 13. Retrieved June 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
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