Will Georgia win SEC title in 2025, or will it be Texas?:

Georgia and Texas share the SEC Media Days spotlight Tuesday:

GDW Analysis:
  ATLANTA: Last season the two best football teams in the Southeastern Conference were the Georgia Bulldogs and Texas Longhorns.
Georgia was able to defeat Texas twice, winning in the regular season and then beating the Longhorns in OT in the SEC championship.
Many media experts expect these will be the two schools to stand above the rest of the competition for 2025.
Georgia and Texas shared spotlight Tuesday in the SEC Media Days from the College Football Hall of Fame & Omni Hotel.
Georgia Bulldogs:
11 & 3, 6 & 2 in SEC 2024 (SEC champion)
Coach Kirby Smart:
 "I think if you're going to beat a good football team, you've got to be a sound football team yourself. I didn't overlap with Sark that I remember at Alabama, so we weren't there at the same time.

Tremendous respect for him and his program, the job they do. To beat good teams, you've got to be a good team. We had a good football team last year. So did they. It's not about us as coaches. It's really about the players and what you believe in.

We got a lot of really good football teams to play next year besides just Texas, so we're preparing for all of them.

  "It's a great atmosphere, just like we went into last year to play them, a night game on the road. They'll come to our place and play. A tremendous atmosphere. I know a lot of people from Tuscaloosa are coming over to the game. Athens, the city of, loves it. We bring a great environment.

 "It's what college football is about. This game is about playing great match-ups like that. It's what the fan bases want. It's what the nation wants. It's what college football needs. It's what college football and the SEC is about. Georgia and Alabama at home, at our place, I wish it could happen more often. Seems like we've played over there three or four times since they've come to see us and play. So it's a great opportunity, and I look forward to it."

 Georgia opener vs. Marshall August 30
SEC opener at Tennessee September 13

 Texas Longhorns:
  13 & 3, 7 & 1 in SEC 2024 (SEC runner up)
Coach Steve Sarkisian

  "I think Arch Manning has learned a lot over time, right? For Arch, he grew up in this era of seeing high-level football. He's watched Super Bowls. He's watched gold jackets getting put on. He's been to playoff games. He's been recruited at the highest level as the No. 1 player in the country. He watched Quinn navigate through the ups and downs of being a starting quarterback at the University of Texas.

I think the one thing you'll find out about Arch is, one, he's very even keel about him. Two, he's very quick witted. He's got a great sense of humor about himself and he's okay to laugh at himself, and I think that's a great quality to have because, at the end of the day, there's going to be adversity that's going to strike this season, and we all talk about resiliency and grit and all those things that are needed when adversity strikes, but I think some of that resiliency can come from calm, remaining calm. Arch definitely has that about him.

 " I think there's a fine line there of what does complacency look like, of monitoring it, and I watch the intent of our players. I watch the way they work. I watch the way they interact with one another. I watch the way they compete with one another. I don't feel complacency whatsoever amongst our players."

 Texas opener at Ohio State August 30
SEC opener at Florida October 4.
Tennessee Volunteers:
  10 & 3, 6 & 2 in SEC 2024

 Coach Josh Heupel:
"Yeah, we certainly want to start fast. That has the ability to apply pressure and maybe change the way the game's played in some situations as the game continues to unfold. At the same time, if it doesn't, you've got to continue to play and find a way to scratch and claw and get back on the right side of it.

Proud of a lot of what we did not starting fast last year, competitive makeup to continue to play. That could be offensively, but it's ultimately all three phases playing together, having an expectation that somebody's going to make a play that makes a difference in the game."
Tennessee opener vs. Syracuse August 30 (Atlanta)

 SEC opener vs. Georgia September 13
Appearing Wednesday at Media Days:

 Alabama Crimson Tide 9:05 a.m.
  Mississippi State Bulldogs 10:50 a.m.

 Florida Gators 1:00 p.m.
Oklahoma Sooners 2:30 p.m.

 Photo of Georgia Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart in 2024 season. Photo courtesy of Georgia football.