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Kirk Herbstreit picks Texas to win the SEC, lauds Colin Simmons’ disruptive play

A lot of college football analysts and experts have been filling out their 2025 CFP brackets recently, and Kirk Herbstreit just released his as well. The College GameDay personality and widely known play-by-play analyst picked Texas to win the SEC this season, and to lock down a top 4 seed heading into the postseason.

.@KirkHerbstreit's Power 4 title picks are in ud83dudc40

Plus, the teams he thinks we’re all sleeping on going into this season ud83dudd25u2b07ufe0f pic.twitter.com/W7mLjhoh64— ESPN College Football (@ESPNCFB) August 23, 2025

Most analysts have routinely picked Texas or Georgia to win the SEC, and it's not hard to see why.