Wednesday is Day 3 of 2023 SEC Media Days, AKA Nick Saban Day, in Nashville.

The Alabama coach will make his annual appearance, along with three of his players, before reporters from around the country on Wednesday at the Grand Hyatt hotel. Also scheduled to appear are players and coaches from Arkansas, Florida and Kentucky.

Here are five things to expect on Day 3 of SEC Media Days:

1. Nick Saban will bristle at depth chart questions, but give great answers anyway

For the first time in recent memory, Alabama enters a season with a totally unsettled situation at quarterback. There was no clarity after the spring, and then Notre Dame transfer Tyler Buchner joined the mix over the summer. Someone will surely ask Saban about the quarterback situation, or about other positions of interest. He will almost certainly push back at first, then go on to give a long, well-thought-out answer about the subject. Reporters have learned that’s simply the cost of doing business with Saban.

2. Saban will zero-in on a big-picture question troubling college football

Saban goes into most any public speaking engagement with a theme in mind, and at Media Days it’s often whatever is a major issue within the game. In the past, he’s talked about tempo offenses, the College Football Playoff, the transfer portal and NIL. The latter two subjects are still hot-button topics in the sport, and Saban will certainly address them. But also expect Saban to weight in on subjects such as the hazing scandal at Northwestern and perhaps even the NCAA situation at Tennessee.

3. Arkansas’ Sam Pittman will be the most-relaxed guy in the room

The easy-going Pittman is always a hit at the podium, an old offensive line coach who still seems like he’s surprised he got an SEC head-coaching job. The Razorbacks took a little bit of a step back in 2022, but not enough that Pittman is under any sort of pressure to win big. Arkansas does return a very experienced quarterback this season in KJ Jefferson, something not many SEC schools can say this year.

4. Florida’s Billy Napier will continue to trust the process

The Gators share a division with the two-time defending national champions in Georgia and a Tennessee team that was the SEC’s breakout program in 2022, so it’s possible they are entering this season as under the radar as they have been in recent memory. Napier coached for Nick Saban and alongside Kirby Smart in his days as an assistant, and both of those men didn’t exactly light the world on fire in Year 1. But Napier will make it clear that Year 2 needs to be better.

5. Kentucky’s Mark Stoops will address his team’s culture

Stoops has been the man who has done more with less throughout his tenure at Kentucky, but two of his last three seasons have failed to live up to expectations. In the spring, he ripped the Wildcats’ culture of “entitlement,” going so far as to say his team had “no leaders right now.” The emergence of Tennessee and South Carolina in the SEC East has made Stoops’ job that much harder, and he certainly won’t shy away from trying to motivate his team through the media.

Creg Stephenson is a sports writer for AL.com. He has covered college football for a variety of publications since 1994. Contact him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter at @CregStephenson.