The road to the 2025 SEC championship required patience for Alabama’s Ty Simpson and Georgia’s Gunner Stockton. Both have been crowned conference champions in past seasons, but this year, they enter the game with a different kind of spotlight, one that belongs to a starting quarterback in the Southeastern Conference.

Title game action is not completely uncharted waters for Stockton, who was thrown into the SEC championship against Texas last year after Carson Beck went down with a torn UCL. It’s new ground for Simpson, however, who sat behind Jalen Milroe for three years before stepping into the prestigious role of the Crimson Tide’s next starting signal-caller in 2025.

In an era when the transfer portal can offer a fast pass to the starting lineup elsewhere, Simpson and Stockton opted t

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