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SEC football was kind for so long, when they aren’t on top something seems wrong. The 2015 college football season ended without an SEC team in the National Championship, something that hasn’t happened since the 2005 season.
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The Southeastern Conference is going to have to realize that the college football landscape has changed, and the Conference is getting further and further away from the times of seven straight titles. Bragging rights are beginning to fade, it is going to take a spark in 2015 to re-ignite football dominance in the SEC.
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Since 2014 the SEC has only brought in two new head coaches. Programs who struggled in the mid 2000s such as Ole Miss, Missouri, Mississippi State, and Texas A&M are starting to prove that the long term systems they are putting in place are coming to fruition after successful years in 2014 and 2015.
The conference is hungry for a championship dinner and they have a buffet of new faces to help get things back on title track, and sometimes incoming freshman and transfers — and yes, even new coaches — can have a big impact on how that plays out.
Here are five new faces to watch for in the 2015 season who could have big impacts on their team, the season and how things play out in the SEC this year.
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