LSU Football, Texas Longhorns and Georgia Bulldogs Headline SEC Programs in AP Top-25

Brian Kelly and the LSU Tigers will enter the 2025 season at No. 9 in the Associated Press Top-25 Poll, as released on Monday morning.

Kelly and the LSU program are one of 10 Southeastern Conference programs ranked in the preseason Top-25 with the SEC once again well-represented.

Along with the Bayou Bengals cracking the AP Top-25, the Texas Longhorns, Georgia Bulldogs, Alabama Crimson Tide, South Carolina Gamecocks, Florida Gators, Oklahoma Sooners, Texas A&M Aggies, Ole Miss Rebels and Tennessee Volunteers made the list from the SEC.

For the LSU program, all eyes are on a new-look offense with coordinator Joe Sloan impressed with the versatility his unit attains heading into the season

"We're going to have the opportunity to challenge people in multiple ways because of the different talents and abilities of some of the guys that we have. I think that's showing here in fall camp. That's always the biggest thing," Sloan said.

"We need to continue to grow. We need to be, every day, on our way through August, making sure that we're having the growth that we need to have in different situational football opportunities that we'll really have from here on out in camp.

"I'm looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to us being able to get down into some of the details of that over the next few days; will be a lot of fun watching the guys attack that."