Alabama maintained their standing as the top academic program in the SEC. That didn't match the results on the field with loses to Vanderbilt and Oklahoma in 2024. Kalen DeBoer is hoping to turn the Tide's fortunes in 2025 and return to the College Football Playoff.

The SEC cares so deeply for its rivalries. Enough to keep secondary rivalries on the long-term schedule? Here's our ranking of the 10 best rivalries.

Urban Meyer stood in the north end zone just beyond the goalpost at the Rose Bowl, far enough away from the Ohio State sideline not to be a distraction. And as the final seconds ticked off the clock in Pasadena,

While Dellinger notes that each conference’s media rights requires each conference’s top-seeded teams face each other in a conference championship game, the SEC is considering another option that includes the conference’s top 8 teams facing each other in a four-game tournament with a tie-in to Playoff qualifications.

The College Football Playoff will go to a more straightforward way of filling the bracket next season, placing teams strictly on where they are ranked.

For the second-straight year, the SEC didn’t play for or win the national championship, which put its reputation as college football’s most dominant conference

Steve Sarkisian cleared up the quarterback drama at Texas in February when he announced Arch Manning as the Longhorns’ starting quarterback. Just kidding — there was no drama at Texas. Sarkisian's anointment of Arch equated to saying it’s hot in Texas in July.

Now that we're 100 days away, what are the SEC things that we should be looking forward to in 2025? Let's start the countdown to No. 1.

Here's what the format would look like, who each team’s opponents might be and what still has to happen to finalize a nine-game slate.

According to On3, the Tennessee Volunteers are the 11th-ranked team in the SEC this season. Despite experiencing one of their best regular seasons under head coach Josh Heupel and reaching the College Football Playoff for the first time in program history, the Vols have a lot of questions entering the 2025 season.