New teams bring added intrigue to SEC title race

Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton looks ahead to the upcoming season in the Southeastern Conference – with Texas and Oklahoma’s arrival adding more talent to an already loaded league.

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It is a new era in the SEC as the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma sooners join the conference and Texas joins the SEC and probably the best way possible coming off of beating Alabama on the road and getting to the college football playoff for the first time in program history last year.

Plus they’re legitimate contenders for the conference with quarterback Quinn.

You coming back for year three as a serious Heisman hopeful, but it’s not just new programs in the SEC.

It’s also new faces most notably who’s on the sidelines at Alabama.

Nick Saban, who led the Crimson Tide to six national championships across 17 years, announced his retirement at the end of last season.

Former Washington Huskies head coach, Kaylin De Boer takes over for the greatest college football coach of all time, even with all of the question marks surrounding life after Saban Alabama is still considered a playoff contender but do not get that twisted.

Georgia is still the team to beat in the SEC and in the country and one under the radar team to keep an eye on this year is Ole Miss Lane Kiffin was nicknamed the Portal King and for good reason.

Ole Miss picked up some of the top talent in the transfer portal this past off season and with an already talented roster including third year starting quarterback Jackson Dart Lane Kiffin led the Reds to the 1st 11 win season in program history last year.

But with a revamped roster, can they do more with two new teams and possibly even eight serious contenders for the college football playoff?

The SEC should be just as competitive and let’s say just as chaotic as ever.