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What new faces and top prospects will impact the 2026 season? We stack the best of the bunch.

Greg McElroy is joined by new SEC Nation host Matt Barrie to discuss if the BIG 12 and ACC can keep up with the SEC and BIG Ten, if the system as a whole is sustainable and the inevitable playoff expansion and what (if anything) will be lost. Barrie also tells you the moment that changed college football for him, if the SEC can break a three year streak without a National Title and if the SEC could really breakaway from the NCAA? Plus, McElroy issues a mea culpa for leaving Miami’s defensive line out of his Top 10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What is the most expensive real estate in college football? Answer: the 7 yards between the OT's outside shoulder and the QB's chin. So why not rank the Top 10 defensive line units in college football heading into the 2026 season. Can A.J. Holmes Jr. lead a rebuilt Texas Tech line back to the CFP, is Will Heldt ready to continue the Clemson D-line NFL pedigree, and is everyone sleeping on David Stone and the Oklahoma front? McElroy goes over all it plus tells you why this is the deepest Notre Dame defensive line in a generation, if anyone will be able to run on Texas and why Oregon has far and away the best defensive line in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plowman explains the impact that college athletics' success has on the enrollment into universities and lists how the Vols are trying to build a comfortable place where students have a voice.

Just three months from the 2026 season, David Hale ranks all 138 FBS programs' quarterback rooms into tiers.

From must-see games to Heisman Trophy contenders, we cover 100 things to know ahead of the 2026 season.

With starters often locked in due to portal investments, QB battles like those at Alabama and Tennessee are becoming more rare.

Which players are most likely to take home hardware from the nation's best teams?

Nail the transfer portal? Miss a big recruit? Find a top coordinator? All are part of our offseason evaluations.

What is the one question that is standing in the way of each SEC team? Can Alabama defense carry the program while the offense figures itself out? How fast can the culture be built in Arkansas and Kentucky? Can the Florida and Texas offensive lines hold up throughout the 2026 season? Will John Mateer, Marcel Reed and LaNorris Sellers put together a complete season? Are the Tennessee and Ole Miss defenses ready to step up? McElroy looks at every SEC team and gives one BIG question that must be answered for these teams to have a successful 2026 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices