{"id":359368,"date":"2026-07-31T22:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359368\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T22:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:01:18","slug":"sec-media-days-in-tampa-fall-football-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359368\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Media Days in Tampa: fall football predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEC Media Days conclude in Tampa with college football stars and fall predictions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wapt.com\/news-team\/925e7914-14d4-4cca-b67e-635764ec8ef5\" aria-label=\"Troy Johnson profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/925e7914-14d4-4cca-b67e-635764ec8ef5_1770858077.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Troy Johnson\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>JACKSON, Miss. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">SEC Media Days wrapped up in Tampa after four days of headlines, predictions, and a look at what\u2019s coming this fall.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">For four days, Tampa was the center of the college football world, with all the stars talking.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Pete Golding, entering his first full season as head coach at the University of Mississippi, is taking over a program coming off one of its best seasons in school history.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Lane Kiffin\u2019s name loomed large over the week in Tampa. Fully draped in purple and gold after his business decision to relocate to Baton Rouge, Kiffin is not talking about a September return to Oxford. His sights are set on something bigger.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Up in Starkville, Jeff Lebby and the Mississippi State Bulldogs are priming for a surge in the win column, fueled by the arm and legs of Kamario Taylor, the man with number 1 on his jersey.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Paul Finebaum asked, \u201cCan the dogs change the narrative?\u201d  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">The talking is done. Now it\u2019s time to play. SEC action kicks off every Saturday this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEC Media Days conclude in Tampa with college football stars and fall predictions JACKSON, Miss. \u2014 SEC Media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-359368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}