It’s August, and ESPN marked the occasion by dropping a college football hype video, with the help of Post Malone, of course.

While Week 0 action is still a few weeks away, you can’t help but get pumped for the upcoming season. The video features Post Malone’s ““Something Real.”

The video has your run-of-the-mill highlights, but it also posed some potential headlines and questions for the upcoming season:

Clemson has some confidence and swagger back

It’s been two years since the Clemson Tigers have participated in the College Football Playoff. During the ACC Kickoff, coach Dabo Swinney addressed a narrative that his team is no longer relevant nationally.

Did he use that as motivation?

“Listen, people talk about Clemson,” Swinney said. “We’ve had 12 really, really good years in a row. Some great years in there.

“It’s hard to get to a final four when there’s 133 teams trying to do it. We’ve been there as much as anybody. If not going eight years in a row means we stink, well, I guess we stink, but maybe we can get back there this year and be able to say we went seven out of the last nine years. That would be a pretty cool accomplishment.”

The best of Tennessee is yet to come

Tennessee coach Josh Heupel seems to think so.

“I’m not sure that there’s a better time to be a Vol,” he said at SEC media days. “You look at the trajectory of our football program, what’s happened over the last two years and where we are going, and the energy and excitement that surrounds our building every day, our fan base, Vol Nation across the country, but the success happening in each and every sport that resides inside of our athletic department. Phenomenal leadership with coaches and great student athletes that do things the right way.

“Our program has been player-driven from the very beginning. You guys have heard me say that before. It always will be. I think great seasons, championship seasons, happen because of the leadership and the accountability and connection that happens inside of the locker room. As I look back on our past success, that doesn’t happen — I talked about the 35 guys that left our program through the transfer portal right after I took over, we had a lot of guys that stayed, that first year, 65 scholarship guys.”

Can Alabama bounce back?

Nick Saban points to the process, of course.

“We’ve had a very good off-season with our team,” Saban said during SEC media days. “Good off-season program. Good spring practice. Very good summer. The team is taking shape. We are still evolving as a team. Lots of new players, some experienced players to go with some of the good, young players that we have in the program. New coaches evolving into the system, and trying to get the young players on our team to be able to develop in the system and so far the players are very enthusiastic and very committed to developing the talent that we have on our team.

“I think that that’s a critical piece of sort of growing your team and developing your team is that you can take the talent that you have and create the right mindset to go with that talent because talent alone is not going to help them be successful because they are heading someplace in the SEC as well as in the NFL if they have the opportunity to get there, where everybody has talent.

“So if you don’t have the right mindset to go with it, then you’re never going to bring that talent to fruition, nor will you be able to create the kind of competitive spirit that you need and we are talking about having resiliency and perseverance and ability to overcome adversity, and discipline to pay attention to detail and do the little things right.”

Georgia, can they do it again?

The Bulldogs are coming off back-to-back national titles.

Smart talked about dealing with complacency, first and foremost.

He said the first step is acknowledging it is a threat. When enthusiasm and ego start worrying about outcomes, he said, you have a problem.

To counter complacency, Smart said his program studied the New Zealand All Blacks, a team he says is “the most successful sports team in the history of teams. Over 100 years, they have had the highest winning percentage.”

The Bulldogs have even taken on the All Blacks mantra: “Better Never Rests.”

“We believe that,” he said of the mantra. “Those are strong words now when you think about it. Think deep on it. Better Never Rests. Our kids understand it. Our kids have learned it.

“What drives us for this season is intrinsic motivation. We’re not going to be controlled by outside narratives and what people say and who is going to be the quarterback. The intrinsic motivation comes from within and what we decide we want to do. This team is still defining itself.”

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.