Thursday in Atlanta is the final day of SEC Media Days 2025. The teams that will take the stage are Kentucky, Missouri, Texas A&M, and Arkansas.

Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey talked at SEC Media Days this week about the possibility of moving from an eight-game slate of league football games to to a nine-game schedule.

Southeast Sports+” cohosts Simone Eli and Gerhard Mathangani are back with coverage of SEC Football Media Days 2025 from Atlanta, Georgia. SEC Media Days 2025: Southeast Sports+ covers Auburn, Georgia,

Alabama's missing mystique, LSU's two transfers from Oklahoma and the ex-Gator who will be trying to sack DJ Lagway for the Tigers

Alabama is the center of the college football orbit with no end in sight. It owned SEC Media Days and the intense lobby fight for autographs spoke to the height the program had achieved. Skip ahead to Wednesday in Atlanta.

Kalen DeBoer aims to restore Alabama's football glory and step out of Nick Saban's shadow after a challenging first season.

If you need a refresher, Alabama went 9-4 in DeBoer's first season as Nick Saban's replacement, which included losses to Vanderbilt and a 6-7 Oklahoma Sooners team. It was the worst Alabama season, on paper at least, since Saban's first year back in 2007.

That confidence seemed to rub off on the national media. On the SEC Network set the next day, former Alabama quarterback and ESPN analyst Greg McElroy made a bold statement about the Tigers going into the season. “The dark horse [in the SEC] is Auburn,” McElroy said.