We’ve already seen some conference play after three weeks of the 2018 college football season but the competition around the SEC really heats up next week as the schedule features six league games.
The schedule features two games featured undefeated teams as Georgia travels to Missouri and Mississippi State hits the road for Kentucky. Georgia has beaten the Tigers four consecutive seasons in the annual series, with Mizzou’s only win in the series coming back in 2013 in Athens. In the other game, Mississippi State holds the all-time edge against annual opponent Kentucky by a mere contest. Hail State won last season 45-7 in Starkville but lost during the program’s previous trip to Lexington, 40-38 back in 2016.
Florida beat Tennessee last season on the final play of regulation. That win gave the Gators their third win in the series in four years in single possession games. The only game that wasn’t a single possession game in the series over the previous four came in Tennessee’s 38-28 win in Knoxville in 2016.
Alabama leads the all-time series against Texas A&M by an 8-2 margin. The Tide have won five games in a row in the annual series but this will be the first contest with Jimbo Fisher leading the Aggie program.
Auburn leads the all-time series against Arkansas, 15-11-2, with the Tigers winning the previous two by a 108-23 margin. South Carolina has defeated Vanderbilt nine seasons in a row and hold the all-time edge in the series 23-4.
These initial offshore lines come courtesy of Vegas Insider and are subject to change as incoming money can alter point spreads:
Georgia (-15.5) at Missouri
Kent State at Ole Miss (-30)
Texas A&M at Alabama (-26)
South Carolina (-2.5) at Vanderbilt
Louisiana Tech at LSU (-21.5)
Mississippi State (-10.5) at Kentucky
Florida (-6) at Tennessee
Arkansas at Auburn (-27.5)
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
