Fall camp is a time for answering questions.

Who’s going to be your team’s starting quarterback? Is the new freshman on campus as good as his recruiting highlight reel seemed to indicate?

All of those things are going to be answered within the next few weeks.

But from a larger scope, there are still questions that will linger in the minds of players, coaches and fans all the way until the opening kickoff during the first week of September.

Let’s take a look at the primary question for each SEC East team heading into the season:

Florida Gators

Primary Question: What kind of identity will this team develop under new leadership?

Everyone in Gainesville is anxious to see what the Jim McElwain era has in store for the Gators. After years of playing hard-nosed defense and vanilla offense, Florida fans finally are free of the shackles of the Will Muschamp era. There are questions surrounding an inexperienced offensive line and the prospects of a starting a freshman quarterback. But most of all, I think the primary question revolves around what brand of football the Gators will bring to the field in 2015.

Georgia Bulldogs

Primary Question: Will the Bulldogs passing game be good enough to keep defenses from loading the box?

Georgia has so many talented running backs they don’t have enough carries for all of them. And that’s after the departure of first-rounder Todd Gurley. But whether the Bulldogs are able to follow through after being anointed the prohibitive favorite in the SEC East will depend on their ability to settle on a new starting quarterback and develop some playmakers at the receiver position. If they are able to do so, the defense is plenty good enough to supplant a high-quality, balanced offense and perhaps give Georgia a chance at the College Football Playoff. If they aren’t, expect there to be unrest in Athens.

Kentucky Wildcats

Primary Question: Can Mark Stoops take his program to the postseason?

After last season’s 5-1 start and subsequent six-game losing streak, there is but one question hanging over this program heading into Year 3 of the Stoops regime: “How do we get to six wins so that we can take this program back to a bowl game?” I gave you six reasons why it will happen this year, but seeing is believing for the fans that suffered through the Joker Phillips era. I get that. The Wildcats will need improvement from the defense to get there, but I do think the schedule lines up well with a manageable out-of-conference slate and eight home games.

Missouri Tigers

Primary Question: Does the defense have enough coming back for an SEC East three-peat?

Even if the rest of the league is still in denial about their ability to win the SEC East in consecutive seasons, the Tigers hold quiet confidence that the team can continue its string of SEC divisional dominance. The offense projects to improve and features returning starters in QB Maty Mauk and 1,000-yard rusher Russell Hansbrough, in addition to a veteran offensive line. That puts Missouri in good shape relative to what many of the other teams in the East are bringing back. The question that is most likely to determine whether an SEC East three-peat is on order: whether or not the defense can perform at a top-25 level, as it did in 2014, without Marcus Golden, Shane Ray, Harold Brantley and Braylon Webb.

South Carolina Gamecocks

Primary Question: Can the Gamecocks rebound from an epic disaster on defense in 2014?

The Gamecocks featured the most productive quarterback/receiver combination in the league (Dylan Thompson/Pharoh Cooper), but won just seven games last year. That result was thanks to a drastic drop-off in defensive production. The Gamecocks fell from 11th and 19th in the FBS in total defense during the previous two seasons all the way down to 92nd in 2014, allowing 432.7 yards per game. If South Carolina is going to get back into the thick of the SEC East race in 2015, a return to defensive excellence is a must. The Gamecocks return leading tackler Skai Moore and should get a dose of fresh air from the hiring of Jon Hoke to help run the defense.

Tennessee Volunteers

Primary Question: High on talent and short on experience, can the Volunteers compete for a SEC East title?

Even if you haven’t been paying close attention, it would be hard to have missed the momentum that is building in Knoxville. Butch Jones spent the better part of his first two years on campus trying to put the pieces of a once-proud football program back together after things fell apart in the post-Phillip Fulmer era. After showing flashes of brilliance in an uneven 2014 season, Jones is hoping that the fruits of his labor on a couple of highly-rated recruiting classes start to blossom. In an SEC East race that should be up for grabs and with a fan base that’s thirsty for a taste of success, the question in Knoxville is: Why not now?

Vanderbilt Commodores

Primary Question: Can Derek Mason keep his ship from sinking?

The Commodores have quite a few questions to answer after an 0-8 performance in Mason’s first tour of the SEC. Do they have a SEC-caliber quarterback? Is there anyone aside from RB Ralph Webb that can be a playmaker with the ball in their hands? But those are all underlying questions to the one at the forefront of the minds of Commodores fans: is Derek Mason the right guy for this job? After gutting his coaching staff and taking over the defense, we should have a pretty clear answer to that question by November.