Connelly’s SEC West preview: Bama, LSU and the best division in college football

Over the previous 20 years, three of its groups have mixed to win 10 nationwide titles. It has boasted among the finest dynasties the game has ever seen (Bama) and virtually no precise dangerous groups — up to now 10 years, solely 4 of its groups have completed outdoors of the SP+ high 60. All seven are projected within the high 30 to start out 2023.

The SEC West has been the standard-bearer for all divisions for a lot of the 2000s. Its champions misplaced 11 of the primary 17 SEC championship video games, however have since received 12 of 14.

The ultimate iteration of the West division brings us loads of questions. Is there such a factor as an excessive amount of change for Nick Saban at Alabama? Can an excellent deeper LSU workforce defend its title? What number of quarterbacks does Lane Kiffin want? Will teaching and/or coordinator modifications trigger setbacks or surges for Mississippi State, Arkansas and Auburn? How on earth is that this Bobby Petrino experiment going to work out in Faculty Station?

With the top of divisional play on the horizon, let’s take a stroll by school soccer’s finest division one final time. Let’s preview the SEC West!

Each week by the offseason, Invoice Connelly will preview one other division from the Group of 5 and Energy 5 solely for ESPN+, finally together with all 133 FBS groups. The previews will embody 2022 breakdowns, 2023 previews and burning questions for every workforce.