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ESPN releases SEC Football anthem for 2025 season featuring Luke Combs, Bailey Zimmerman

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Football season is nearing kickoff, including down in the Southeastern Conference with SEC Media Days opening up today in Atlanta, Georgia. With that came this morning’s release of this year’s anthem for the league’s upcoming fall.

ESPN shared the song of choice in a release on social media this morning. The anthem for 2025 will be ‘Backup Plan’, a song released Bailey Zimmerman with Luke Combs featured on it back in May.

Combs and Zimmerman released ‘Backup Plan’ as a single back on May 2nd going into the summer. This is the latest collaboration for Combs with a song for the SEC while it’s the latest nod for a rising name in country with Zimmerman.

Media days is the sign that college football is nearly back. Now, when that new season kicks off in the Southeastern Conference, namely on ESPN, ABC, or the SEC Network, we know what song will come on at gametime with this anthem’s release on Monday.

Greg McElroy: Person ‘in the know’ believes Nick Saban will return to coaching

Greg McElroy said on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning on Monday at SEC Media Days that he heard someone predict Nick Saban will return to coaching at some point. He cited a “very much in the know person” who thinks Saban would get back to the sidelines, pointing out it was someone “notable” who told him they think he isn’t necessarily done coaching. In fact, he said the person was “adamant.”

“This is a little bit out of left field, but the question was asked of me … a very much in the know person that I have a lot of respect for and have spent a lot of time around and just really, really admire,” McElroy said. “They seem to think Nick Saban’s not done coaching. I had a similar reaction. He’s pretty adamant that he thinks Nick Saban will be coaching again. … Look, if it wasn’t someone notable, I’d never say a word.”

Finebaum responded with a resounding no when McElroy asked if he bought that speculation. The former Alabama quarterback agreed with him, for what it’s worth.