DALLAS — After seeing its national championship reign atop college football end last season, the newly-expanded SEC promises to headline the College Football Playoff in 2024 with several title contenders. After making the rounds around the Omni Hotel this week and chatting with various experts across conference markets, the takeaways gathered are insightful, and have led to 10 bold predictions that would shake up the approaching season.
Coachspeak influences everything said at SEC Media Days behind the mic from program leaders and players, but sources close to the action with a tell-it-like-it-is preference provide tidbits and details only industry leaders would reveal. Texas and Oklahoma are new blue-blood additions, but there’s no room at the top for both. Is Alabama bound to fall back without Nick Saban? Can Missouri and Ole Miss actually meet lofty preseason expectations?
We have some potential answers to all of these questions.
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Here are 10 bold predictions ahead of the start of fall camp that could lead SEC narratives this fall: