One Reason For Optimism For Every SEC Team Entering Spring Practice

That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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SEC Mike & Athlon Sports' Senior Editor Steven Lassan are back to talk some SEC Football! update on Athlon Sports CFB Magazine (1:00), Steven Stache (2:30), Mark Stoops to Texas (3:30), Josh Heupel supports 24-team Playoff (9:00), Reasons for Optimism For Every SEC Team (16:45), Arkansas (17:00), Mississippi St (25:15), Kentucky (29:15), Vanderbilt (37:00), Missouri (43:15), Tennessee (47:00), South Carolina (53:00), Auburn (59:00), Florida (1:02:35), Texas A&M (1:07:30), Alabama (1:11:15), LSU (1:15:35), Ole Miss (1:18:00), Oklahoma (1:22:00), Georgia (1:25:15), Texas (1:29:00) Advertising inquiries: thatsecpodcast@gmail.com Get $10 Off at BRUNT with code SEC at https://www.bruntworkwear.com/SEC #Bruntpod 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	Hey, welcome in the latest episode of that SEC podcast. I'm your old, Spike and Breton, go by SEC Mike.
0:13.2	Go on the Twitter's, and there he is our great friend back again. Stephen, Lassen's senior editor
0:19.3	over at Athlon Sports. Stephen, how are you? Hey, Mike. It's good to talk to you, my friend. What a, I guess, kind of crazy offseason we can find ourselves in. More news of college football, the world of college football never stop. So I don't know about you, but I'm just excited if we get to talk to college football tonight.
0:38.1	It's been, you know, like I said, kind of a crazy off season.
0:40.8	Always good to keep the news flowing around the SEC, right?
0:45.1	Yeah, absolutely.
0:46.3	So, and I think it's just going to get ratcheted it up here with spring football.
0:51.1	We've already got, it's already begun in some SEC campuses this week,
0:55.5	a lot more. And before you know it, Stephen, all 16 teams will be in spring practice. So
1:01.7	we're going to have a lot to discuss over the next weeks. And yes, there is basketball on, but
1:08.4	not for Stephen Lassen, who's working hard.
1:13.3	Can you give us an update on the Athlon Sports College Football Preview Magazine and all the work
1:18.3	you're doing to get that in yet again?
1:20.4	Absolutely.
1:21.2	I think the best way to describe it is is all of like the small pieces that you see in the
1:25.7	magazine with all the coaching information,
1:27.8	the stat boxes and things like that.
1:29.5	We're compiling those.
1:30.6	We're debating who's going to be on the covers.
1:32.7	I am also just in the midst of trying to compile every returning starter for all 138 teams now.
1:40.7	We'll see you, Sacramento State and North Dakota State.
1:43.0	So all that background stuff Mike
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