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That SEC Football Podcast

Most Complete & Unbiased SEC Coaching Grades for 2026

That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dave Bartoo of Matrix Analytical joins That SEC Podcast to share insight into every new SEC hire and the new coordinators to join the conference in 2026 unbiased CFB information (3:00)Steve Sarkisian is overrated & Will Muschamp is high-risk (6:00), Scoring efficiency explained (9:30), Lane Kiffin to LSU (12:30), Play-caller pairings (15:45), Ole Miss coaching staff (17:30), Florida coaching staff (20:30), Auburn coaching staff (23:45), Kentucky coaching staff (27:30), SEC scheduling an issue (30:00), SEC Playoff issues (32:30), Arkansas new coaching staff (33:45), Jim Knowles to Tennessee (36:00), Holmon Wiggins promoted at A&M (37:45), Kendal Briles to South Carolina (40:00), Chip Lindsey to Missouri (42:00), Nick Saban spoiled Alabama fans (45:00), Oklahoma’s offensive issues (45:45), Vandy screwed post-Pavia (47:25), Jeff Lebby going to make it? (47:45), Dabo rehires Chad Morris (49:00) 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 PRIZEPICKS: https://prizepicks.onelink.me/ivHR/SEC promo code SEC play $5 get $50 instantly! 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

All right. Hey, it's been too long. One of the best out there, Dave, Bart, 2. You know him probably best as a CFB Matrix, Matrix Analytical. Anything else we left off the title there, Dave.

0:21.6

No, no, that's about it. I'm just a dude that likes to tell stories with numbers in football.

0:28.6

Yeah, and we've had you all on the show a number of times. I know you do radio and podcasts all across the Southeast and really the country explaining what you do.

0:40.2

But our audience always gets bigger and bigger.

0:42.2

There's probably a lot of people that are unfamiliar with your work.

0:45.0

Can you kind of explain what it is that Matrix Analytical does?

0:49.6

Yeah, well, we started, my team started about eight years ago.

0:57.5

And our focus in the data was on off-field analytics.

0:59.5

So the first thing that we started working on was coaching, and we have built coaching

1:05.4

staffs all over the country, including the SEC.

1:09.2

We do, actually, SEC, we do more work in the SEC than anywhere

1:12.4

else. And I really do believe it's because the SEC is constantly looking for an edge,

1:17.9

you know, at every single level. And so our first clients, you know, we're in the SEC and that has

1:27.1

continued to grow. But we focus on staff building.

1:30.4

We have a, our system has every guy to wear a headset, right? So whether it's offensive

1:35.9

coordinators, defensive coordinators, wide receiver coaches, you name it. We have a grade and a year

1:41.4

by year profile on their entire career.

1:49.8

So what we're looking for there is highs and lows, windows and floors, of the ceiling and the floor of every guy.

1:52.3

We took that to the NFL.

1:53.4

I just actually just on my NFL AI account at Matrix Edge AI.

2:00.1

I just posted an article on Rahim Morris.

2:02.2

So if you're out there and you're an NFL fan and you want your defense to regress,

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