College Football Previews 2025: SEC
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Richard and Alex preview the SEC for the 2025 season:
* Texas has everything it needs to make a deep playoff run
* Georgia has a few more questions, especially at QB, but (this will shock you) looks like a frontline contender once again
* Alabama is back, per Richard
* LSU has championship upside, but will the defense be good or great?
* South Carolina has a huge star at QB and another at EDGE. The rest of the roster is more open to interpretation, but one of us is optimistic
* Florida has DJ Lagway, and that counts for a lot
* Ole Miss faces a QB transition, but there’s reason to be optimistic. Will the defense keep chugging after a bunch of losses?
* Texas A&M will run over you and play solid defense. How serious will Marcel Reed and the wide receivers be?
* Tennessee’s best side of the ball probably isn’t offense
* Oklahoma has some elite talent and some splashy portal additions, and Richard thinks this might work out
* Auburn might have the best receivers in the conference and has a bunch of young players that flashed last year. What about the weird QB situation?
* Mizzou is building its roster effectively but has some substantial losses to contend with, and it doesn’t sound like a great QB room
* Vanderbilt will probably move backward, but the ‘Dores have made progress
* Arkansas faces another year of coaching carousel questions
* Kentucky appears to be a bad situation
* Mississippi State is a bit more interesting but faces a long slog
After going through each team, the group awards preseason honors: The Split Zone Duo Dude of the Year, the Low-Key Cool Game of the Year, and the Coach Who’s Not Gonna Be Here Next Year Award. Producer: Anthony Vito.
That wraps up our conference previews
* Big Ten
* American
* ACC
* Big 12
* MAC
* Sun Belt
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming, and we ain't backing down. |
| 0:01.9 | We don't need a bunch of cats in here. |
| 0:03.4 | Looking in the mirror. |
| 0:04.6 | Everybody just do your job. |
| 0:06.7 | You got to stay next? Hey, will you shut up? I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. Guys being dudes. And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man. Ah, fuck it. Thank you, Lee. Alex, we've come to just about the end of our, at least the recording side of our season preview, season journey. |
| 0:26.2 | The way we roll these out, obviously is a little bit different than the order in which we record them. |
| 0:30.2 | But the SEC has traditionally, I believe, always been our last lead. |
| 0:35.8 | Has it? |
| 0:36.2 | I feel like sometimes we've done it early. |
| 0:38.1 | I also think this year we've gone in perfect order of recording then publication |
| 0:44.2 | because we learned with our off-season vibe check series this year where we tried to bank |
| 0:48.4 | a few things like several days ahead of time that things change. |
| 0:52.9 | Like nothing worse than recording a podcast and then someone gets hurt before it comes out |
| 0:57.8 | or something like that. |
| 0:59.2 | Most embarrassing thing in the world. |
| 1:00.5 | I have nightmares about it. |
| 1:01.5 | So you're getting this one very farmed to table. |
| 1:03.7 | We're recording it on Thursday, August 21st, and you're definitely hearing it. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, it's definitely being released into your feeds either on the 21st or early |
| 1:11.0 | the 22nd. |
| 1:12.0 | So very organic. |
| 1:13.7 | This is one of the most organic podcasts you're going to find. |
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