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SEC football predicted to reclaim best conference throne in 2024: Ewers, Carson Beck, Kiffin, Drinkwitz credited

By Andrew Hughes

SEC football is about to reign supreme again after the Big Ten and Pac-12 kept them out of the College Football Playoff championship game for the first time since 2014/15.
SEC football is about to reign supreme again after the Big Ten and Pac-12 kept them out of the College Football Playoff championship game for the first time since 2014/15. / Eakin Howard/GettyImages
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247Sports' Carter Bahns ranked SEC football at No. 1 on his conference rankings, shouting out Texas's Quinn Ewers, Georgia's Carson Beck, Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin, and Missouri head coach Eli Drinkwitz in his prediction.

"There is really no argument against the SEC as 2024's top conference," Bahns prefaced before saying, "This always-dominant league only got better with the additions of Playoff hopefuls Texas and Oklahoma. Half of the national preseason top 10 resides in the SEC, where Texas' Quinn Ewers and Georgia's Carson Beck enter the year as co-favorites to win the Heisman Trophy. Rising programs Missouri and Ole Miss seem to have hit home runs with coaches Eli Drinkwitz and Lane Kiffin and seek to establish themselves as perennial powers in the new-look league, and the depth behind them in the conference standings is tremendous."

In 2023/24, for the first time since the very first College Football Playoff, the two teams in the championship games were not from the SEC. Both, Michigan and Washington, are in the Big Ten now.

Alabama lost on the final play against Michigan in the Rose Bowl, while future SEC squad Texas lost a Sugar Bowl shootout to Washington.

SEC likely to break College Football Playoff record for number of schools in field

For the first time ever, the College Football Playoff will have 12 teams in 2024/25. Expanding the field from four means that, at minimum, we're getting three bids from the Power 2 (B1G, SEC), but the SEC will most certainly have the most representatives in the field that the sport has ever seen.

Between Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Ole Miss, Missouri, LSU, and perhaps a surprise riser like Auburn or Florida, there are going to be several representatives from the "It Just Means More" conference.

2024 will be more of the same despite the massive changes the sport is undergoing across the board.

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