Diving into position battles, staff changes and hot-button topics concerning several teams in the SEC East as we approach a three-month break before things heat up in August for the 2015 season:

Georgia: The Bulldogs have the look of a 10-win team based on talent (especially Jeremy Pruitt’s defense), but breaking in a new quarterback for the second straight season may be a tougher decision than Mark Richt had hoped.

Remember when we all thought Jacob Coker had the edge at quarterback for Alabama exiting spring practice last season and Blake Sims won the job during fall camp leaving the Florida State transfer as an afterthought?

A similar signal-caller seizure could be happening in Athens where junior Faton Bauta has made the most of his opportunity with shared first-team reps and remains on the same level as presumed starter and third-year sophomore Brice Ramsey.

Ramsey was Hutson Mason’s primary backup last season and played well in Saturday’s spring game, but Bauta did as well, his effort highlighted by a 25-yard touchdown toss on a play-action fake.

“It’s still a race,” Richt said after the Bulldogs didn’t allow players in the quarterback competition to speak to the media on Saturday. “I don’t think there’s any question that it will go through the summer and fall before we make that decision on who will start the first ball game.”

It’s clear former four-star signee Jacob Park (Goose Creek, S.C.) has a decision to make about his future now that he’s No. 3 on the depth chart with the nation’s top 2016 passer, Jacob Eason, on the way in next spring.

In most other areas, Georgia is loaded with few questions concerning the starting lineup.

Heisman candidate Nick Chubb was in midseason form on G-Day, taking a hand-off 17 yards for a score in limited action. The Bulldogs expect ballcarriers Keith Marshall and Sony Michel at full strength by fall camp, as well as special teams and receiving threat Isaiah McKenzie who pulled a hamstring after scoring a touchdown over the weekend.

The Bulldogs’ immense depth and talent at outside linebacker, on display over the weekend, is well-documented. Nursing an injury this spring, Leonard Floyd looked on as Lorenzo Carter and Jordan Jenkins filled up the stat sheet in the first half, plowing through anyone who came in their way.

Florida: Will Grier is the front-runner at quarterback and the Gators need five-star blocker Martez Ivey on campus pronto.

First-year coach Jim McElwain hasn’t named a full-time starter, but says Grier, a 6-foot-2 pocket passer, is out front at the conclusion of spring drills and seems to be a better fit in Florida’s pro-style scheme compared to incumbent Treon Harris.

“It’s a work in progress,” McElwain said of his offense. “Let’s face it, there’s parts (to the offense) and we’re identifying the parts and we’ll put some plans together to help the explosive playmakers have an opportunity to make those plays. That’s for us to come up with after we go back through and go through every single cut-up of every practice. It’s amazing what you see when you do that … see how guys get better to details. There’s a lot of left to do.”

Grier led three scoring drives during Saturday’s spring game and finished 8-of-11 for 136 yards.

After losing four starters along the offensive line from last season’s team, the plan for Florida this fall was to rely on Trip Thurman and Roderick Johnson to shoulder the heavy lifting up front while six newcomers, including Ivey, adjust to the college game in the trenches.

The recent news of Johnson’s neck injury suffered on April 3 being possibly career-threatening is disappointing for a position group that, despite being ultra-thin on numbers and available scholarship players, performed well during spring ball.

The Gators finished the spring with six healthy — not necessarily game-ready — offensive linemen, which is why the newcomers on the way in could help this offense substantially.

South Carolina: The addition of Jon Hoke is already paying dividends for the Gamecocks on defense, but the picture remains muddled under center and along an offensive line replacing two multi-year starters.

This didn’t look like the defensive line we’re used to seeing, at least not during Saturday’s spring game.

South Carolina’s front four, led by JUCO transfer and spring MVP Marquavius Lewis, provided consistent pressure against Shawn Elliott’s injury-riddled offensive line last weekend, leading to a couple sacks and two errant throws to defensive back Jasper Sasser resulting in turnovers.

It’s a promising sign for a football team that blew multiple double-digit leads in the fourth quarter during last season’s 7-6 finish which Steve Spurrier recently labeled ‘decent, not terrible’ to Paul Finebaum.

The Head Ball Coach was hoping he’d have things figured out on his side of the ball following the departure of quarterback Dylan Thompson, but the three-player race for the job isn’t all that clear heading into summer. third-year sophomore and favorite Connor Mitch played well at times, but like Perry Orth and Michael Scarnecchia, was too inconsistent for Spurrier’s liking.

“They all seem to have their stats very similar every time we scrimmage,” Spurrier said. “So maybe that’s the kind of team we are.”

Spurrier has reminded us often of incoming freshman Lorenzo Nunez move to Columbia, S.C., later this summer, a player who has attended a bunch of practices and already has a handle on the playbook. He also said he’s not against going with a rotating two-quarterback look, a plan that didn’t work so well during the 2008 campaign when he flip-flopped Chris Smelley and Stephen Garcia.

Tennessee: The Vols haven’t played with a full deck since the bowl game and it’s beginning to affect the way Tennessee practices in terms of preparation and staying on Butch Jones’ good side.

As many as 10 potential starters are limited or have missed spring ball completely, a challenge for any coaching staff with expectations as lofty as a division title — and more — in 2015.

“How do you progress? You get repetitions in the spring,” Jones said according to The Times Free Press. “We don’t have that luxury, so every rep is critical. Every rep has to be a winning rep. Every rep has to be a quality rep.”

Encouraged by his team’s effort level during the first couple practice sessions, Jones wasn’t pleased over the weekend and blasted the Vols’ offense following Saturday’s lackluster scrimmage.

“I did not like our offense’s approach,” Jones said. “I thought we were stale. I thought we had no mental effort. I thought we had no intensity about ourselves, and I think it showed. We have to get better as a football team in a hurry and I say that every time we step on the football field.”

Despite the slew of missing players on both sides of the ball, Tennessee’s coaching staff has tried to teach what remains a relatively young football team this spring with situational football. First-year coordinator Mike DeBord has mapped out his plan for the offense and over the last two weeks, has worked closely on installation and tempo with quarterback Joshua Dobbs, Tennessee’s most important player this season.

The two seem to have gelled, even if Dobbs doesn’t have his full arsenal of weapons available just yet. Tailback Jalen Hurd has watched from the sideline as four-star JUCO transfer Alvin Kamara’s made waves with an effortless transition into the offense.