The last: No discussion of the expansion of the college football playoffs

ATLANTA (AP) Latest news about SEC Media Days (all local):

2:25 pm

Nick Saban offered a preemptive without comment to all questions about the quarterback dilemma of l & # 39; Alabama.

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The reigning national champion heads for the fall tests trying to determine who will be his QB number one. It will be the newbie Jalen Hurts, or the sophomore who has replaced it in the title game of last season, Tua Tagovailoa.

Saban criticized the controversy that the media "loves to create, has already created" The coach would say only "it remains to be determined who will play quarterback for Alabama."

Tagovailoa served Hurts support throughout the 2017 season. "Then, after the start of the first game of the national championship against Georgia, Saban took over

.This is one of the best decisions of the Saban's brilliant career.

Tagovailoa completed 14 badists for 166 yards and three touchdowns, including Devonta Smith's 41-yard overtime strike to earn the game's offensive MVP title.

Saban gave no clue as to how he could look in. He only said "we will have to see who wins the team at the fall camp." He added, "When you tell me ask a question about it, I'll say, "We'll see."

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Trey Smith, a second-year offensive lineman in Tennessee, was shut out for training in the fall after being held out of the spring drills. reason for undisclosed disease

. The return of Smith, coach of the second All-SEC team as a rookie in 2017, is important as Jeremy Pruitt prepares for his first season as a Flight Coach. Pruitt said Wednesday at the Southeastern Conference's Media Days that he "can not wait to get it back."

Smith was one of 12 players retained from spring practice for medical reasons. With Smith and others back, Pruitt says, "I think we will make the most of everyone."

Pruitt, former defensive coordinator of Alabama, Georgia and Florida, was hired to rebuild the Tennessee program. The Flights finished 4-8 and 0-8 in the SEC last season.

Pruitt says that he found boosters, fans, gamers and Tennessee 's administration all operating in the same direction and that' s all there is to it. "

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10:15

Welcome to the South, Joe Moorhead. And pbad the bacon.

Moorhead, the new coach of the Mississippi State, is a Pittsburgh native who was recently the Fordham Coach from 2012 to 2015 and the Penn State Offensive Coordinator these last two years. He is adapting to the weather and the food of Mississippi.

He says that stepping over the front door means "being hit in the face with moisture." He also added "all wrapped up in bacon". 4 in 2017. Moorhead inherits nine starters back to the attack, including quarterback Nick Fitzgerald. Defensive line-ups Montez Sweat and Jeffery Simmons are at the top of the list of eight defenders of the return

This is a good talent base, but Moorhead says he knows he's picking up a program that has never won the SEC championship.

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9:30

The football team is collaborating with four teams, at least for the moment.

Hanbad, Executive Director of Football Playoff College, says that there has been no question of extending the event.

Hanbad at the Southeastern Conference Media Days: "There is no talk of expansion among college presidents and college commissioners. . "

This season's national championship game will be played on January 7, 2019 in Santa Clara, Calif. The semi-finals of December 29 at Cotton Bowl and Orange Bowl

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1:20 am

Nick Saban should feel at home at the College Football Hall of Fame, the institution that hosts part of the week The Hall of Fame downtown Atlanta is Just a few steps from the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where six months ago, the Saban Alabama team defeated Georgia for its sixth national championship.

Alabama wasn 'the champion of the SEC , the victory of the national championship against Georgia, has strengthened the hold of Saban as king of the league.

Alabama is still the team to beat while the SEC teams are gearing up for a Wednesday will be the third day of SEC Media Days, which will last four days.

The event Nuel brings together coaches and players from 14 schools in the league. This year, about 1000 media references were issued

The event will return to Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham, in 2019.

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