Life’s journeys are almost always better when you have a friend to help you along the way.

As for the journey that is the 2015 SEC football season, there are plenty of colorful partnerships that have been forged as the teams prepare for the grind of a long season.

Let’s take a look at 10 of the league’s best dynamic duos for the upcoming season.

Note: Prior to the season-ending injury to Arkansas RB Jonathan Williams, he and Alex Collins would have occupied a very high spot on this list as the league’s top RB tandem.

BONUS: Alabama’s backfield contrast: RB Derrick Henry and RB Kenyan Drake

Assuming both players stay healthy, Henry and Drake could embody the largest contrast among successful back in the country. Henry is a 243-pound bulldozer, while Drake is 33 pounds lighter and may play more like a receiver in the Tide’s offense this year. Both players should be headed to the NFL draft following the season, but it will be fun watching them try to earn high draft grades.

10. Florida’s All-American pass defender duo: CB Vernon Hargreaves III and CB Jalen Tabor

We’ll start the list with a typical Batman/Robin relationship. Hargreaves clearly is the star of this duo, returning for his junior season as perhaps the best cornerback in the country following an All-America performance in 2014. Tabor earned Freshman All-America honors playing opposite Hargreaves last year, but he needs to lock down a starting job in the talented Gators secondary in order for this duo to climb the list.

9. LSU’s safety valve duo: S Jalen Mills and S Jamal Adams

I’m not going to let a little fractured fibula (Mills is out 4-6 weeks with the injury) get between this safety duo and their spot on this list. Mills is the crafty veteran of the Tigers secondary, with 39 starts to his name as he begins his senior season. Adams, who received Freshman All-America honors in 2014, played really well alongside him last season. There may not be a better pair of safeties in the country, and if there is, it is in that talented Florida secondary.

8. Ole Miss’ Nkemdiche duo: DL Robert Nkemdiche and LB Denzel Nkemdiche

The Nkemdiche brothers combine to make the league’s best duo bound by blood. They also win the award for duo with the hardest name to spell. If Denzel can stay healthy for his senior season, both brothers are capable of All-SEC performances on a Rebels defense that should again be one of the nation’s best.

7. Georgia’s sophomore rushing duo: RB Nick Chubb and RB Sony Michel

It seems like Nick Chubb receives all of this duo’s attention after a monster freshman season, but let’s not forget that they arrived on campus in Athens last season as a pair of five-star recruits at the position. With Todd Gurley now out of the picture, expect Michel to emerge as a serious complement to the “Nick Chubb show” in 2015.

6. Missouri’s tackling duo: LB Kentrell Brothers and LB Michael Scherer

236. That’s the number of tackles that Mizzou linebackers Brothers and Scherer accumulated last season. Needless to say, that was the highest total of any duo in the league. Brothers (122 tackles) ranked second in the league, and Scherer (114 tackles) followed closely behind in fourth. They are the SEC’s top two returning tacklers for 2015.

5. Georgia’s edge-rushing linebacker duo: OLB Leonard Floyd and OLB Jordan Jenkins

It was recently revealed that the Bulldogs outside linebackers have tagged themselves as the “Wolf Pack” because of the way wolves will stalk their prey for miles waiting for just the right time to pounce. There is little question that an NFL future for both Floyd and Jenkins, but they have both returned to school for 2015 in hopes of bringing Georgia a SEC championship.

4. Mississippi State’s aerial duo: QB Dak Prescott and WR De’Runnya Wilson

Dak Prescott returns in 2015 as the league’s most accomplished quarterback, and WR De’Runnya Wilson should be his most trusted target. Wilson led the Bulldogs in receiving last season with 680 yards and nine touchdown catches. According to The Clarion-Ledger, he’s looking for 20 touchdowns in his final year catching passes from Prescott.

3. Tennessee’s pass rushing duo: DE Derek Barnett and DE/LB Curt Maggitt

Only Missouri’s Shane Ray and Markus Golden (24 combined sacks) got to the quarterback more often than the duo of Barnett and Maggitt (21 combined sacks) in 2014. With both Tigers now playing in the NFL, the Vols pass rushers have an opportunity to become the undisputed tag-team pass rushing champions of the SEC.

2. Auburn’s “Coach Boom” duo: HC Gus Malzahn and DC Will Muschamp

These guys haven’t even coached a game together and they’re already one of the league’s favorite duos. Gus Malzahn has a reputation for having one of the best offense minds in football, and Muschamp will attempt to return to being one of the league’s best defensive coordinators after a lukewarm tenure as a head coach at Florida. If nothing else, this duo will be exciting to watch.

1. Alabama’s “Odd Couple” coaching duo: HC Nick Saban and OC Lane Kiffin

The state of Alabama has cornered the market for interesting coaching marriages between current and former major head coaches. Year 1 of this arrangement has to be considered a success. While the Crimson Tide fell short of a national championship in 2014, an SEC championship and a 12-win season is quality work from this duo.