SEC Football Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2026

That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

Football, News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Games

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 104 minutes

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SEC Mike & Athlon Sports' Senior Editor Steven Lassan are back to talk some SEC Football Big Ten after Playoff TV rights (2:00), Should portal spending be capped? (6:30), Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2026 (12:00), which teams changed the most after the portal? (1:31:15) 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	Welcome in, latest episode of that SEC podcast.
0:11.1	I'm yours, my friend.
0:12.3	Go by SEC Mike on Twitter.
0:14.6	And there he is our great friend, Stephen, Alassan, the senior editor over at Athlon Sports.
0:20.8	Stephen, how are you?
0:22.8	Mike, the Indiana Hoosiers are college football's national champions.
0:27.0	What a crazy statement to utter, right?
0:30.1	I mean, we're living in some kind of like crazy college football world.
0:33.7	But shout out to Indiana for great performance all season.
0:39.3	What a great game last night. great way to cap an unbelievable and awesome season now mike the long off season has set in my friend so
0:45.5	i can't wait to talk all things off season and maybe we can figure out how uh cc mike's cc teams
0:52.2	can get back to the national championship at some point, right?
0:55.0	Well, how long before it's discovered that Indiana cheated?
1:00.7	I mean, that's what I'm trying to figure out.
1:03.1	How do they cheat to get this done?
1:05.3	You've already seen it, right?
1:06.6	If it seems like they know the plays too well of the opposition, they must doing some like advanced scouting like you know connor stallions and all that so it hasn't taken a long time uh i'm sure that the conspiracy theories will continue i i will say one thing kirksonnetti is a really really good coach and uh it is going to be fascinating later to this off season when some of the early coach, you know, best coach list come out.
1:32.3	Some already some people are already putting Kirk Signetti over Kirby Smart.
1:36.3	So just brace yourselves.
1:37.3	There's going to be a lot of that coming this off season, Mike.
1:40.3	Oh, Steven, Steven, Stephen.
1:43.3	I didn't want to go down this road, but you already got me on the Big Ten BS, I'll call it.
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