Breakout Candidates For Every SEC Team & Panic Meter Fall Camp Edition

That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

SEC Mike & Athlon Sports Senior Editor Steven Lassan are back to talk some SEC Football! Steven's thoughts on Over/Under guarantees (4:45), Preseason AP Poll Top 25 Rankings (10:20), teams outside top 10 that could be Playoff teams (16:00), how does Arkansas finish in the top 25? (18:45), how does Mizzou finish in the top 25? (21:15), Florida deserve lofty preseason ranking? (24:00), thoughts on Mizzou QB competition (26:15), Panic Meter Fall Camp Edition (30:30), Ole Miss Rebels (30:45), Oklahoma Sooners (33:00), Mizzou Tigers (35:45), Texas Longhorns (39:45), Texas A&M Aggies Best O-Line? (41:15), Tennessee Volunteers (42:25), explain South Carolina being ranked over Mizzou (46:45), Florida Gators (51:50), Breakout Candidates For Every SEC Team (54:00), LSU (54:30), Texas A&M (57:00), LSU top 5 defense? (1:00:00), Arkansas (1:00:50), Mike Bobo bottom 5 coordinator? (1:02:30), Tennessee (1:05:30), South Carolina (1:08:00), Georgia (1:10:30), Oklahoma (1:12:45), Mizzou (1:17:15), Texas (1:19:50), Auburn (1:23:50), Alabama (1:25:50)Florida (1:28:00), Kentucky (1:30:40)Ole Miss (1:32:40), Mississippi State (1:34:15), Vanderbilt (1:35:45) 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 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	Welcome in, the latest episode of that SEC podcast.
0:10.3	I'm your host, Michael Bratton.
0:11.2	Go by SEC Mike on the Twitters.
0:13.3	And there he is our great friend, Stephen Lassen's senior editor over at Athlon Sports.
0:19.6	How's it going, Stephen?
0:20.8	Mike, I'm fired up.
0:22.6	We got just not too long for football gets going, man.
0:25.7	It's, you know, this time when we talk next week, we'll have games that Saturday.
0:31.3	So I guess maybe I'm just trying to match that energy that the SEC Stadcat brought to your show in that interview I saw last week. I thought I was
0:38.9	fired up for football and I thought like he went like to the next level. Oh man, people were not
0:44.4	happy with his energy, which I cannot fathom why. But you know, who's energy I love here, Stephen
0:52.8	Broto. He's in here, Broto Baggins 420. Happy birthday. It's his birthday. He says, it's my birthday, shot 84 on the golf course, drunk as a skunk, eating some lasagna. I cannot wait to hear Stephen call Arch his breakout candidate or the whole Texas team. I considered putting Arch as a breakout candidate, but I thought that was too obvious, so we had to go with some other names, right?
1:14.6	That'd be too obvious, wouldn't it?
1:15.6	It would.
1:16.6	So that's, we're jumping ahead, though.
1:18.6	That's going to be the show topic on this episode.
1:20.6	We're going to hit on all 16 SEC teams with Stephen, breakout candidates.
1:25.6	I don't know how Stephen did it, but mine, I'm doing a little mix of, you know,
1:30.9	the whispers that the intel we're getting from fall camp.
1:34.0	So we'll get to that in a minute.
1:35.7	Steven's panic meter is updated fall camp panic meter.
1:39.3	It's never too early to panic your name, Stephen Lassen.
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