College Football 2024 SEC Odds, Schedules And Biggest Games

SEC football article originally posted on Forbes Aug. 25.

The college football season kicks off in full over Labor Day weekend with Week 1 featuring 96 games, but just 35 contests matching FBS vs. FBS opponents. That includes two key Top 25 matchups involving college football 2024 SEC teams – No. 1 Georgia (-13.5) vs. No. 14 Clemson in Atlanta, and No. 7 Notre Dame at No. 20 Texas A&M (-2.5) . The SEC schedule will include many of the biggest games of the season as more teams push towards conference titles and the new 12-team college football playoff.

The Southeastern Conference is expected to be the best league in the land again as college football expansion continues with Texas and Oklahoma joining the SEC to form a 16 team superconference.

College Football Preseason AP Top 25

Nine SEC teams start the season ranked in the AP Top 25 poll, including four of the top six teams.

• No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs
• No. 4 Texas Longhorns
• No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide
• No. 6 Mississippi Rebels
• No. 11 Missouri Tigers
• No. 13 LSU Tigers
• No. 15 Tennessee Volunteers
• No. 16 Oklahoma Sooners
• No. 20 Texas A&M Aggies

SEC Teams Odds To Win National Championship And Make College Football Playoff

Betting lines and college football 2024 SEC odds from leading online sportsbooks refresh periodically and are subject to change, including on props and live betting.

No. 1 Georgia starts the season as the favorite to win the national title at +280 and a hefty -600 to make the 12-team college football playoff. But eight other SEC teams are contenders to make the playoff, and push towards the top of the SEC and shot at the national championship.

National Championship odds followed by odds to make the 12-team College Football Playoff.

• Georgia +280 / -600
• Texas +850 / -220
• Ole Miss +1400 / -130
• Alabama +1400 / -105
• LSU +2000 / +125
• Missouri +4000 / +180
• Tennessee +3500 / +195
• Texas A&M +4000 / +240
• Oklahoma +8000 / +490
• Auburn +15000 / +700
• Kentucky +25000 / +1500

College Football 2024 SEC Key Games

Preseason betting lines and listed favorite (-).

Georgia starts as the No. 1 team in college football. But the Bulldogs are the only team in the country to play three road games against top 10 teams – Alabama, Texas and Ole Miss, plus a neutral site game in Week 1 vs. No. 14 Clemson. Georgia was ranked No. 1 most of last season only to lose to Alabama in the SEC Championship game and miss out on the 4-team College Football Playoff. Alabama lost to Michigan in the Rose Bowl national semifinals.

SEC College Football Preview, Odds And Teams To Watch

Sept. 7

• Texas (-3.5) at Michigan – Two top-10 teams in a rare SEC-Big Ten battle kickoff FanDuel’s college football Games of the Year from the Big House in Ann Arbor.

Sept. 14

• Alabama (-9.5) at Wisconsin
• Texas A&M at Florida
• Georgia at Kentucky

Sept. 21

• Tennessee at Oklahoma (-3.5) – The Sooners opening SEC game is a big one with a number of storylines. Tennessee 4th year head coach Josh Heupel returns to Norman, where he guided the Sooners to the national title in 2000 as the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year, AP Player of the Year and Heisman Trophy runner-up.

Sept. 28

• Georgia (-4.5) at Alabama – a rematch of last year’s SEC Championship game won by the Crimson Tide 27-24 to knock undefeated Georgia out of the 4-team College Football Playoff. An early season showcase of top teams and two quarterbacks among the favorites to win the Heisman Trophy, Carson Beck (+800) and Jalen Milroe (+1400). Both teams have a bye week before this big showdown, and Alabama (-9) plays at Wisconsin for the first time the week prior in a SEC-Big Ten battle, while Georgia plays Kentucky in another notable SEC matchup on Sept. 14. Both Georgia (8) and Alabama (9) have tough overall schedules rated among the 10 toughest in the country, according to the Phil Steele College Football preview.

Oct. 5

• Missouri at Texas A&M (-4)
• Auburn at Georgia (-23.5)

Oct. 12

• Ole Miss at LSU (-2.5) – Last year’s meeting featured 104 points and 1,343 total yards in a 55-49 victory by Ole Miss. Quarterback Jaxson Dart leads an expected explosive Rebels offense and he’s also a Heisman favorite at +1400, or 14/1.
• Florida at Tennessee (-10)
• Oklahoma vs. Texas (-7.5) in Dallas. Last year’s Red River Rivalry was a battle of unbeatens, and Oklahoma won 34-30 on a Dillon Gabriel TD pass in the closing seconds. Now these two power programs meet as SEC foes, and Gabriel took the massive NIL money to tranfer to Oregon for his senior season. Now highly-touted OU quarterback Jackson Arnold, a former Gatorade National Player of the Year from Denton, Texas, leads the Sooners against Texas and QB Quinn Ewers, a Heisman Trophy favorite.

Oct. 19

• Georgia (-1.5) at Texas
• Auburn at Missouri (-9.5)
• Alabama (-2.5) at Tennessee
• LSU (-9.5) at Arkansas

Oct. 26

• Oklahoma at Ole Miss (-6)
• Missouri at Alabama (-8.5)
• LSU at Texas A&M (-2)

Nov. 2

• Florida vs. Georgia (-20.5) in Jacksonville. Florida has a season win total of 4.5, and head coach Billy Napier appears on the hottest seat. The Gators have a brutally rough schedule rated the toughest in the country. The point spread in this ‘Cocktail Contest’ is 20.5, and the Bulldogs have won the last three meetings over the Gators by at least 20 points.

“I think Florida gets to a bowl game, and I have them rated as the No. 11 most improved team in the country.” – Phil Steele on a recent DraftKings Network CFB podcast. Steele’s nine sets of power ratings have Florida with top-20 talent. The Gators final five games starting in Nov. are the toughest in college football – Georgia, at Texas, LSU, Ole Miss, at Florida State.

Nov. 9

• Alabama at LSU (-1.5) – The last two meetings between the Crimson Tide and Tigers decided the winner of the SEC West. Divisions are now gone, but the stakes remain high with more top SEC teams looking to join the 12-team postseason playoff party.
• Georgia at Ole Miss (-7)
• Oklahoma at Missouri (-3)

Nov. 16

• Texas (-16.5) at Arkansas
• Tennessee at Georgia (-16.5) The Bulldogs have won seven in a row against Tennessee, and six by 20 or more points.
• LSU (-5.5) at Florida

Nov. 23

• Ole Miss (-7) at Florida
• Texas A&M (-2) at Auburn
• Alabama (-2) at Oklahoma

Nov. 30

• Texas (-3.5) at Texas A&M – The Lone Star Showdown hasn’t been played since 2011. But one of college football’s best rivalries is renewed and could be an annual battle of Texas with the Longhorns joining the SEC, which the Aggies did in 2011 after also leaving the Big 12.
• Oklahoma at LSU (-5)
• Auburn at Alabama (-13.5) – The Iron Bowl, and new Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer gets his first taste of the intense rivalry.
• Mississippi State at Ole Miss – The Egg Bowl is another must-see rivalry and Jeff Lebby is the new coach at MSU after serving as assistant under Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin.

Another super season of SEC football will draw the most watch and wager action as the popularity of sports betting and college football continues to flourish across the U.S. landscape.

You can bet on it.