The SEC is officially in a drought. College Football’s preeminent conference hasn’t won a national championship since the Georgia Bulldogs claimed the second of their back-to-back titles in 2022. The SEC hasn’t even had a team in the national title game in either of the last two years. Yet, the conference enters 2025 with the No. 1 team in the country and plenty of contenders nipping at the Texas Longhorns’ heels.
The sport’s two power conferences will square off in Week 1 with Arch Manning leading Texas into The Horseshoe for a College Football Playoff Semifinal rematch with the defending champion Ohio State Buckeyes, but there are plenty of SEC storylines beyond the football royalty taking over in Austin.