The SEC West is the strongest division in college football with nine of the past 16 national champions coming from this side of the conference alone. The 2023 season will be no different with Alabama vying to reclaim the throne from LSU, Arkansas, and Ole Miss lurking in the dark.
The coaches in the West are unbelievable between Nick Saban, Brian Kelly, Lane Kiffin, Jimbo Fisher, Sam Pittman, Hugh Freeze and Zach Arnette, every single week is a chess match. The Crimson Tide enter the 2023 conference play as the likely favorites due to all of their biggest showdowns coming at home, but last season showed us that nothing is a given anymore and the Tide is more mortal now than they have been in years.
Below I project how I believe the SEC West will shake out.