SEC Football Way-Too-Early 2017-18 Hot Takes

Some very early SEC football hot takes looking ahead to the 2017-18 season. Can the best conference in the nation be the best again?

SEC football fans – Alabama fans in particular – are still licking their wounds after a painful loss to Clemson in the national championship game. But with another year of stellar recruiting by SEC schools, can the conference rise to the top again in 2017?

The ACC solidified themselves as the best conference in college football last year, but they certainly haven’t strung together the type of success seen in the SEC.

That doesn’t mean they won’t.

For the SEC to return to kings of the gridiron (and in more ways than just Alabama winning yet another national title) there will have to be some improvement up and down the conference, and those SEC-ACC grudge match games will need to swing the other direction this season.

With the coaching situation much more settled than it was in 2016, and some quarterbacks who were true freshman last season having a year of brutal games under their belts, there’s bound to be some improvement.

Here are a few very early hot takes on the conference, and what can possibly be expected from a few teams and coaches, as well as a look into the crystal ball for the SEC title game and College Football Playoff.