Three SEC win totals you should absolutely pounce on before the 2026 college football season begins

With the conclusion of SEC Media Days, we now officially begin the mad dash toward the opening of the college football season.It might seem like this offseason has moved at a snail's pace, but speaking from experience, things really start to pick up after Media Days and before you know it, you're knee-deep in the regular season.Before we reach that point, though, we have some predictions to make, and there's no better to start than to look at some of my favorite SEC win totals heading into the 2026 season.

PERCEPTION IS REALITY, AND THE SEC NEEDS TO START WINNING AGAIN BEFORE IT CONTINUES TO PUFF OUT ITS CHESTHere are three juicy win totals for a trio of SEC squads that I absolutely love as we hurtle towards the start of my favorite time of the year.If there was ever going to be a year that Texas and head coach Steve Sarkisian put it all together, it would be 2026.That alone should be enough to hammer the over on this one, since nine wins almost certainly would leave the Longhorns' College Football Playoff hopes in limbo, but there's more to it than that.

This is one of the most talented rosters in the country, cultivated through multiple top-five recruiting classes over the past few cycles and supplemented by the third-ranked portal class heading into the season.The pieces are there, but what puts Texas over the top is having another year of Arch Manning.The redshirt junior signal caller sputtered to start the first half of 2025, but by November, Manning was one of the best quarterbacks in the country and should carry that over into this year.

The Horns play a pretty tough schedule in 2026, but a week two showdown against Ohio State should tell us a lot.If Texas handles the Buckeyes at home, the over will almost assuredly hit.FIVE SEC TRAP GAMES IN 2026 THAT COULD UPEND THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF RACE, FROM LSU TO GEORGIAStaying in the Lone Star State, let's travel due east to College Station.

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