Josh Pate knows how to create buzz. In his most current predictions for the 2025 season, Pate rates Alabama Football as the SEC's best team. Predicting Power Four Conference Champions, Pate chose the Alabama Crimson Tide to beat Texas in Atlanta. Alabama fans love it. Auburn and LSU fans dislike the prediction so much that their criticism of Pate is intense.
Drawing further ire, Pate predicts four SEC teams to make the Playoffs, with LSU, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and South Carolina not making the cut. Instead, Pate projects Alabama Football as the overall 2-seed, Texas as the 3-seed, Florida as the 8-seed, and the Georgia Bulldogs as the 9-seed.