Aaron Murray Names College Football Powerhouse Setting the SEC Standard

After all, those are the necessary steps. When Alabama owned the league under Nick Saban, conference titles and national titles were almost annual. Then, Georgia took over in the early 2020s with the unmistakable statement of back-to-back national championships.

Murray just wants to issue a reminder on the criteria.

"Let's not forget Georgia is the reigning SEC champs," he pointed out. "Like, Georgia had to knock off Alabama to get that monkey off their back a little bit in order to win a championship."

Sure, Texas is loaded to the gills with talent, has the hotshot, big-name QB and made consecutive Final Four appearances in the College Football Playoff. Aaron Murray merely wants to see some W's in those games before officially stamping Texas as the class of the conference.

"I know the brand is strong, I know the excitement for Arch is strong," he admits. "But I would still say Georgia with Kirby is the best staff in college football and still should be given a little more respect. [Georgia] is, to me, still the standard right now in the SEC."

Knowshon Moreno: Texas Must Win Consistently

Going along with Murray's greater point, Knowshon Moreno concurs that Texas shouldn't simply be handed the utmost respect in the SEC pecking order. Like Georgia and Alabama before, they'll have to conquer some hardware to establish themselves beyond a doubt.

"They got to do it consistently," said Moreno. "They can't just have one-offs beating the Georgias and things of that nature and think they run the SEC."

Even if Texas was the best performer among SEC schools in the CFP, they still didn't come away with the SEC crown or national title. For those reasons, there's still work to be done to persuade these two Georgia boys that their team is no longer No. 1.

"They just got here," Moreno added. "They got to do it for a couple years to get my full respect."