New coaches. New coordinators. New quarterbacks.

To be sure, plenty will be new when the 14 SEC football teams renew the annual tradition that is spring practice. Each team gets 15 practices, and every team except Ole Miss will have a spring game.

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Here’s what to watch from each as we continue our countdown to the 2016 season openers.

Alabama

Alabama leaned on its passing game in the College Football Playoff, with Jacob Coker setting season-highs for passing yards in consecutive games to lead Alabama to its fourth national title in seven years. Coker threw for a career-best 335 yards in the championship game. He threw 2 TDs to secret weapon O.J. Howard.

Howard and Calvin Ridley are back, and OC Lane Kiffin has a five-star pocket-passer in Blake Barnett, who must win the job from backup Cooper Bateman. Nobody expects Alabama to match Ole Miss pass for pass in 2016, but there could be more of an emphasis on airing it out this spring than in previous springs.

Arkansas

We’ll have a much clearer picture of Arkansas’ QB race after the April 23 spring game. Can presumed leader Austin Allen hold onto the job? Or will four-stars Ty Storey or Ricky Town claim it? With little evidence to go on, opinions are speculation at this point, but clearly that position is key for an offense that can’t turn around and hand it to Alex Collins any more. Arkansas’ offense lost more than most SEC teams. The spring will go a long way in answering some of the most important questions.

Auburn

Of the seven or so SEC teams with a legitimate QB competition, Auburn’s might be the most fascinating. I’m on record as saying the Tigers’ offense ran better, ran more Auburn-like, last year with Jeremy Johnson, but Gus Malzahn clearly saw a need for an upgrade. JUCO star John Franklin III isn’t coming in to sit.

Florida

The Gators’ QB race will attract the most attention this spring, but a big part of it already was solved by moving Treon Harris to receiver. The expectation is the two transfers — Luke Del Rio and Austin Appleby — will battle for the starting job while Feleipe Franks gets a redshirt year to watch and learn. Appleby had a roller-coaster career at Purdue, but he did throw for 332 and two TDs in his final start against Indiana. At 6-5, 239, he certainly looks the part.

Georgia

The cameras and microphones will chronicle the arrival of the Jacob Eason era, but the most critical development isn’t his. It’s Nick Chubb’s recovery from knee surgery. As long as Chubb is healthy and ready in time for the opener, Georgia will ask little more of Eason or Greyson Lambert other than to manage the offense. New Georgia coach Kirby Smart recently told CBS Sports that Chubb was “on schedule” with he rehab but didn’t clarify a timeframe for his return to the field.

Kentucky

This spring, with most of its offensive playmakers returning, Kentucky can focus on details and stress finishing. Kentucky started the past two seasons at least 4-1 but faded to 5-7 both times.

Clearly, finishing is the message being delivered, inside the locker room and out.

LSU

DBU gets a new, innovative leader in Dave Aranda, who promises a brand of smart, aggressive defense.

“Find your best players, get them matched up on their worst players and do it over and over and over again,” Aranda told ESPN.com.

There was no coordinator change on the offensive side, though head coach reportedly has used words like “tinker” and “tweak” in explaining new wrinkles in 2016. He told the Baton Rouge Advocate that he and the staff planned on visiting other staffs to compare notes.

Does that mean Brandon Harris will line up in the spread and throw it 50 times in the spring game? Probably not.

“There’s some things you do and you do really well, and you don’t want to lose that,” Miles told the Advocate. “There’s a bunch of ways to improve. It’s something you work on on a daily basis. Many times its execution. It’s not even scheme. We’ll have to see.”

Mississippi State

Because Dak Prescott took so many of the snaps the past three seasons, this might be the QB race those outside the program know the least about.

Nick Fitzgerald and Elijah Staley threw just 19 passes last season. Damian Williams threw just 23 in 2014. Not much to go on.

Fitzgerald is regarded as the leader. Staley recently left the basketball team — he was a reserve forward — to focus on spring football and winning the QB competition.

Missouri

New head coach, new offensive coordinator, new opening day starting quarterback. It sounds a lot like Georgia, except Missouri doesn’t have a pair of 1,000-yard running backs to lean on. Fortunately for QB Drew Lock, who survived a shaky freshman season, his new OC, Josh Heupel, is a former Power 5 QB with a penchant for point.

At his introductory news conference, Heupel didn’t want to be branded by a particular style. He wants to play fast and create mismatches on the outside. He noted that he’s had top 5 passing offense and and top 5 rushing offense. He’s had QBs who ran, QBs who fired it from the pocket. His goal at Missouri?

“Score a lot of points,” he told the Columbia (Mo.) Tribune.

Ole Miss

No team outside of Tennessee enters spring practice in better shape offensively. Obviously that starts with record-breaking QB Chad Kelly. The Rebels will use spring practice to sort out its deep and talented receiving rotation, but even last year, with Laquon Treadwell leading the SEC in receiving yards, six other players caught at least 23 passes. There will be plenty of opportunities for new names to make their mark. You’ll just have to wait for the season opener. The Rebels are renovating their stadium and won’t have a spring game.

South Carolina

Will Muschamp and Kurt Roper are reuinited, which could mean good news for Lorenzo Nunez, a dual-threat QB capable of running an offense the way Roper wants. South Carolina has a lot of holes to fill, so a quarterback who can generate offense on his own is a good place to start a rebuilding effort.

Tennessee

Just about every team enters the spring with questions. Tennessee enters with answers followed by exclamation points — on both sides of the ball. The motivation this spring will be on finishing games. The Vols went 9-4 last season — their best season since 1997 — but a 1-point loss at Florida essentially knocked them out of the SEC Championship Game.

Texas A&M

The QB race will take center stage this spring. But Noel Mazzone’s QB-friendly scheme will make for an easy transition, regardless of who wins the two-man race between bowl-game starter Jake Hubenak and Oklahoma transfer Trevor Knight.

Vanderbilt

Can Vandy find some offense to complement 1,000-yard rusher Ralph Webb? That’s the top priority this spring. That begins with better protecting Kyle Shurmur, but the Commodores also need receiver Trent Sherfield to take the next step in his development and become a go-to threat. His best SEC game came in the finale at Tennessee. Vandy lost big, but Shurmur threw a career-best 3 TD passes, including one to Sherfield. That’s something to build on in 2016.

Sherfield certainly is aiming high. Last season he worked with former Vandy great Jordan Matthews.

“I’m trying to follow in his footsteps on the way he worked,” Sherfield told The Tennessean. “I’ve seen what he did when he was here … just follow the path that he set while he was here.”