Major SEC Football Preseason Event Returns to Atlanta in 2025

DALLAS – The Southeastern Conference’s big show is returning to Atlanta.

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, at the end of his opening remarks at the inaugural SEC Football Media Days in the state of Texas, hinted that the 2025 event would return to the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta next July.

Atlanta hosted the event in 2022 and 2018. SEC Media Days was held in either Birmingham or Hoover every year from its inception in 1985 until 2017, before the league began moving them. Last year, it was held in Nashville for the first time.

This week, SEC Media Days are taking place at the Omni Hotel Dallas. Sankey said the league, which has owned Texas A&M since 2012, tried to move west in 2018, also exploring an option in Houston, but couldn’t make it happen at the time.

With the universities of Oklahoma and Texas officially joining the league this year as part of a deal struck three years ago, bringing their big preseason meet out west was even more of a priority this year.

“We’ve had three years to prepare for this expansion,” Sankey said. “It’s made the Western events more and more important. Texas has become an integral part of our lives.”