SEC PREVIEW 2025: Contender Tiers, Predictions, Snakes in the Toilet & the Arch Manning Era | College Football Podcast

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Preview season rolls on as we dive into the SEC, figure out the contenders and pretenders, making some irresponsible predictions, and chew on the conference's biggest storylines going into the 2025 college football season.

In this SEC preview episode, we discuss the impact Arch Manning could have on the Texas Longhorns, provided the offensive line can get sorted in time. Plus, a conversation around whether this year's Alabama squad will feel more "DeBoerian" than in 2024, and how Georgia stacks up with Gunner Stockton at the helm.

We also debate the meaty middle of the conference and wonder if Brian Kelly can turn talent into big wins, if Mike Elko can bully the conference with his rushing attack, if DJ Lagway can handle a murderer's row of a schedule, and if Missouri is the ultimate wildcard. And of course, a conversation about a new-look Ole Miss, the fearsome trio of LaNorris Sellers, Dylan Stewart and Nyck Harbor at South Carolina, Oklahoma's new quarterback / coordinator tandem, Tennessee's transfer trade, Auburn's portal fever, and much more.

And finally, we take the temperature of Arkansas, Vandy, Kentucky and Mississippi State.

Consider this your starter pack for the 2025 SEC football season.

Timestamps:
2:41 - Big SEC Themes
8:31 - The Contender Tier
22:26 - The "Right There" Tier
56:26 - Snakes in the Toilet
1:08:47 - The Bottom Tier
1:16:05 - SEC Predictions

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