Put your money where your mouth is: SEC point spreads heading into marquee Week 1
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Time is running out to place a wager on your school heading into the first week of the season.
This time next week, we’ll be only hours away from kickoff in Little Rock as Arkansas hosts Florida A&M in the first SEC football game of the 2017 season. While that game may not be great, it will serve as a fine appetizer heading into a three-day Labor Day Weekend featuring several great matchups.
Here’s where each SEC point spread currently sits heading into the first week of SEC action. Courtesy of Vegas Insider, these lines are the consensus lines listed in each contest.
Note: There are no lines listed for games against FCS opponents (Arkansas vs. Florida A&M, Missouri vs. Missouri State and Mississippi State vs. Charleston Southern)
Georgia Southern at Auburn (-35)
South Carolina vs. NC State (-6) – Game in Charlotte
Florida vs. Michigan (-4) – Game in Arlington
Kentucky (-10.5) at Southern Miss
Appalachian State at Georgia (-13.5)
South Alabama at Ole Miss (-24)
Florida State vs. Alabama (-7) – Game in Atlanta
Vanderbilt (-5.5) at Middle Tennessee State
BYU vs. LSU (-12) – Game in Houston
Texas A&M at UCLA (-3.5)
Georgia Tech vs. Tennessee (-4) – Game in Atlanta
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
