{"id":25151,"date":"2024-08-08T15:22:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=25151"},"modified":"2024-08-08T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:22:53","slug":"georgia-favorites-to-win-sec-as-texas-oklahoma-join-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/ncaaf\/georgia-favorites-to-win-sec-as-texas-oklahoma-join-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Favorites to Win SEC as Texas, Oklahoma Join Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With Nick Saban retiring and Texas and Oklahoma both joining the conference, the SEC will<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>look very different next season. While Alabama is the defending champs, this looks like<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgia\u2019s conference to lose as they are not only the favorites to win the SEC but also to win<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the national title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Georgia Bulldogs (+190)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since taking over in 2016, Kirby Smart has compiled a record of 56-9 in SEC play and has won<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>two Conference Championship titles in 2017 and 2022. This team piled up five-star talent and is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>looking to make amends for not getting into the playoffs last season, even though they probably<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>should have. Georgia is led by QB Carson Beck, who could be the top pick in the 2025 NFL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Draft. Defensively, it\u2019s led by All-American candidates, including Mykel Williams and Malaki<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Texas Longhorns (+325)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Longhorns made the College Football Playoffs for the first time last season and will be led<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by Heisman contender, Quinn Ewers. There\u2019s a lot of hype around the sophomore quarterback<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as he will likely be a top-5 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. While they do have some talent from last<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>season, Texas lost three pass catchers, two defensive linemen, and a running back, who all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>went in the first 101 picks of the 2024 NFL Draft. The Longhorns do have the Bulldogs on the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>schedule and that could hurt their chances of making it to the conference title game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alabama Crimson Tide (+600)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After leading Washington to the national championship game, Kalen DeBoer looks to take over<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from Saban and get this program back to the playoffs. He was able to turn around the Huskies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in just two years and knows about offense as he got Michael Penix Jr. and Rome Odunze<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>drafted in the top-9 of the 2024 NFL Draft. Jalen Milroe returns behind center, a terrorizing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>offensive line, and with a defense full of blue chips, don\u2019t count out the Crimson Tide in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>post-Saban era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LSU Tigers (+950)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This conference is full of NFL quarterback prospects and you can add one more to the mix with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garrett Nussmeier. Over the past two seasons, Nussmeier managed to compile 1,391 yards<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with 9 touchdowns on 61.7% passing. The offense will have its\u2019 playmakers but the defense<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>needs to be better. Last season the Tigers allowed 28 points a game, but with the addition of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blake Baker as defensive coordinator, LSU should improve on that side of the ball and if<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nussmeier can deliver, the Tigers could be a dark horse pick in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SEC Conference Championship 2024-25 Odds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgia +190<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas +325<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alabama +600<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mississippi +700<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LSU +950<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas A&amp;M +1000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Missouri +1400<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tennessee +1600<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oklahoma +3300<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auburn +3300<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kentucky +10000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Carolina +10000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florida +10000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arkansas +25000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mississippi State +30000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vanderbilt +30000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Nick Saban retiring and Texas and Oklahoma both joining the conference, the SEC will look very different next season&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-25151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaaf","tag-ncaaf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25153,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151\/revisions\/25153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}