ESPN isn't waiting until the start of the 2025 college football season to rank every team in the SEC. The SEC is almost always represented well every college football season. With that said, ESPN expects Texas to be the conference's No.

Oddspedia analyzed the cost of attending a single game at 100 major NCAA Division I football programs and five of the 10 most expensive game day experiences came from SEC schools. The average cost of a game day for two across all 100 programs is $184.67, but the average cost from the SEC schools in the top 10 is $282.20.