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That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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SEC Mike & Athlon Sports' Senior Editor Steven Lassan are back to talk some SEC Football! NCAA trying new targeting rule (2:30), Owen Heinecke seeking another season (7:15), Mizzou names Austin Simmons QB1 (10:45), Texas gets good news (18:30), Players On the Rise (20:30), Oklahoma (22:00), Tennessee (25:30), Mississippi State (32:00), Auburn (36:45), Florida (41:00), LSU (45:10), Georgia (49:30), Texas (52:15), Texas A&M (55:10), Alabama (1:02:30), Arkansas (1:08:50), South Carolina (1:11:50), Mizzou (1:14:30), Ole Miss (1:17:00),Kentucky (1:19:30), Vanderbilt (1:22:45), why Mike doesn't believe in Texas (1:25:00), Advertising inquiries: thatsecpodcast@gmail.com Interested in helping us grow the channel? Become an Official Cousin by signing up for a membership to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8aQL-yFS2ZoSkUBeMfYesA/join We have t-shirts for sale! Check out our merchandise store featuring shirts, hoodies, stickers, coffee mugs, pillows, phone cases and more: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/thatsecpodcast?ref_id=19055 Take Cheers Restore after your last drink or before going to bed and wake up feeling at least 50% better — or your money back. For a limited time our listeners are getting 20% off their entire order at CheersHealth.com/THATSEC. #Cheers #ad All show music comes via Nashville band Crimson Calamity; check out their work by clicking the link below: https://open.spotify.com/artist/29HGeJEcYHBJlyt4xIcLBw?si=GJoEOr0YSoeqWkrjhCc0Ug

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0:00.0	Heyo, welcome in the latest episode of that SEC podcast.
0:10.0	I'm your host Michael Breton.
0:12.0	Go by SEC Mike on them Twitter streets.
0:15.0	And there's our great friend Steven Lassen Senior Editor over at Athlon Sports.
0:22.6	Stephen, how are you?
0:25.6	And get our minds off basketball, please, will you?
0:27.6	Hey, Mike, it's good to talk to you.
0:31.0	I was going to say, it's a basketball conference now, right?
0:35.4	I mean, I know Florida lost, but shout out to Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee,
0:39.0	all the SEC teams that won this weekend.
0:48.2	I know the Big Ten's got more teams in the Sweet 16, but Mike's bracket of all SEC Final Four or Elite Aid is still somewhere out there, right?
0:53.1	It is. I had Florida winning the whole dang thing, so that went up in smoke.
0:55.7	I don't know if we're going to see liquid flames in the comments here.
1:01.2	He's probably on a couple days hiatus after that collapse last night against who wasn't freaking Iowa?
1:03.4	We can't lose to Iowa at anything unless it's a Music City Bowl.
1:07.0	And even then, it's disgraceful.
1:09.1	See, the thing with the bowl games in Iowa is usually the SEC teams are short-handed.
1:14.8	They really don't care, even though Big Ten fans try to insist that, you know, these games
1:19.1	actually matter.
1:20.1	They don't.
1:20.7	But this time, the NCAA, turn of it.
1:22.8	It's hard to make that argument, Mike.
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