Insights on SEC Favorites: Georgia Leads, Texas Joins Mix

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00:00I don't think there's any doubt, and you see Georgia being the favorite there, followed

00:07by Texas, Alabama, Ole Miss still very interesting, a team coming off a really good year last

00:12year, perhaps a step back for some of the other teams, LSU, A&M, Tennessee, and Missouri.

00:17But I think that, Bill, we'd be remiss if we didn't talk about what the new landscape

00:22in the conference is going to look like, and the most important part of it is adding Texas

00:26to the mix.

00:27As we just mentioned, they're plus 350 to win, and also plus 850 to win the national

00:34championship.

00:35Oklahoma, on the other hand, coming off a rocky season, not necessarily one of the favorites

00:40to win either the SEC or the national championship game.

00:44But Bill, I don't know that the SEC really cares.

00:47Getting Oklahoma into the conference means more eyeballs, it means more discussion like

00:51this, and you know eventually the Sooners are going to get back to where they were.

00:55I mean, maybe I'm being a little bit too tough on a team that's ranked inside the

00:58top 20, but I just don't see a lot of projections for them to win it.

01:02Well, they won 10 games last year.

01:05So when have we kind of discounted an Oklahoma team that won 10 games, has a five-star quarterback

01:10in Jackson Arnold coming back, got some more transfers for Brent Venable's defense, which

01:15did improve last year.

01:18And here's a nasty reminder for Texas fans, Oklahoma's won that game five of the last

01:23six years.

01:24I know Texas went to the playoff last year, but Oklahoma won that game.

01:28Now the Sooners do have a very tough schedule, probably the second toughest schedule in the

01:33SEC behind Florida, so there is a lot of work to do.

01:36I think the Tennessee game with Oklahoma will get a lot of publicity, not just because it's

01:41Tennessee, but Josh Heupel, who led Oklahoma to the national championship in 2000, is the

01:46coach on the other sideline.

01:48So yeah, I think there is some value in the Sooners, but that schedule combined with a

01:53few other factors may be a few years of recruiting in the SEC before they're a championship-caliber

01:58team in the conference.