SEC Championship Odds 2024: Will Any Newcomers Vie For the Crown?

2024 SEC Championship Odds

The 2024 college football season will be quite the spectacle.

Conference realignment takes effect on a large scale this year, making for some new and interesting conference matchups. On top of that, the College Football Playoff is expanding to 12, conferences are shedding divisions and competition is expected to be at an all-time high.

In no conference does that ring true more than the SEC. There are 9 or 10 teams that will start the season ranked in the top 25, while Georgia and Texas are considered early national title contenders in the latest betting odds.

The battle for the SEC is going to be a fun one. The conference has shed its divisions and will release its tiebreaker protocol prior to the start of the season. Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee and Ole Miss are all performing to expectations and considered top contenders in the conference following Week 3.

Here’s a look at the latest odds to win the SEC as of September 2024:

2023 SEC Champion: Alabama Crimson Tide

The 2023 SEC Championship Game took place on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2022 at 4 p.m. Eastern time. Alabama snatched back the crown from top-seeded Georgia 27-24 in Nick Saban’s last season.

The Tide went on to give Michigan a run for their money in the Rose Bowl, but fell 27-20 to the eventual national champions. The Tide reaching the CFP didn’t come without controversy, though. Alabama jumped all the way from No. 8 to No. 4 after downing Georgia, who fell to No. 6 behind Florida State, an undefeated conference champion.

But as always, these things are not black and white. Alabama proved their efficiency against Michigan and was no doubt the better team when compared to Florida State at the time. The Seminoles had just lost starting QB Jordan Travis for the remainder of the season and fell to Georgia in the Orange Bowl, 63-3 – though they played with mostly backups.

The SEC Championship Game

The SEC was the first conference in college football to hold a conference championship game. The first SEC Championship Game was in 1992 where the Alabama Crimson Tide knocked off the Florida Gators by a score of 28-21. The first two games took place at Legion Field. Between 1994 and 2016, the SEC Championship Game took place annually at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Ga. Since the 2017 game, the game has taken place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga.

The SEC Championship Game is typically one of the most watched college football games each year. In 2021, the SEC Championship drew 15.3 million viewers for CBS. That was the second most-watched college football game of the season, only behind the Michigan-Ohio State game which drew 15.89 million viewers.

While other conferences have joined the party and have conference championship games, the other games have frequently failed to match the SEC Championship Game in terms of brand power, interest, attendance and television ratings. Simply put, the SEC Championship Game is consistently one of the most watched and most important games in the nation each season.

SEC Championship Odds: How to read them

New to betting? Here’s how you can understand and read the odds you see on this page. If a team has odds listed at -150 to win the SEC Championship, this means that you must bet $150 on this team to win $100. Typically for a championship game, few teams have a negative number for their odds. As only one team in the field can win, most teams will have a plus number listed.

If a team has a plus number, say +800, this means that if you bet $100 on this team to win, you would win $800 as a result. Long shot teams might have significant positive numbers, such as +10000 or more. While you could win a significant amount of money should that team win, of course, this outcome is unlikely (as reflected in the odds).

Below is a look at what the odds may look like in action. Georgia is the favorite, but it’s a fairly close race with Texas, Ole Miss and Alabama having respectable odds. If Georgia was a heavy favorite this season, their odds would likely be in the negatives with Texas, Ole Miss and Alabama drawing much higher numbers of their own. To an extent, it’s all about striking a balance:

SEC Championship Game Results History

Since 1992, the SEC Championship Game has delivered exciting matchups and winners that have often gone on to potential championship glory in the college football postseason. Here is a snapshot of the history of the SEC Championship Game:

• 1992: Alabama 28, Florida 21
• 1993: Florida 28, Alabama 13
• 1994: Florida 24, Alabama 23
• 1995: Florida 34, Arkansas 3
• 1996: Florida 45, Alabama 30
• 1997: Tennessee 30, Auburn 29
• 1998: Tennessee 24, Miss. State 14
• 1999: Alabama 34, Florida 7
• 2000: Florida 28, Auburn 6
• 2001: LSU 34, Tennessee 20
• 2002: Georgia 30, Arkansas 3
• 2003: LSU 34, Georgia 13
• 2004: Auburn 38, Tennessee 28
• 2005: Georgia 34, LSU 14
• 2006: Florida 38, Arkansas 28
• 2007: LSU 21, Tennessee 14
• 2008: Florida 31, Alabama 20
• 2009: Alabama 32, Florida 13
• 2010: Auburn 56, South Carolina 17
• 2011: LSU 42, Georgia 10
• 2012: Alabama 32, Georgia 28
• 2013: Auburn 59, Missouri 42
• 2014: Alabama 42, Missouri 13
• 2015: Alabama 29, Florida 15
• 2016: Alabama 54, Florida 16
• 2017: Georgia 28, Auburn 7
• 2018: Alabama 35, Georgia 28
• 2019: LSU 37, Georgia 10
• 2020: Alabama 52, Florida 46
• 2021: Alabama 41, Georgia 24
• 2022: Georgia 50, LSU 30
• 2023: Alabama 27, Georgia 24

Where can you bet on the SEC Championship Game?

Online sportsbook is live and legal in three SEC states currently: Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. Sports betting was also recently made legal in North Carolina.

There are several major sportsbooks live in those states, including (but not limited to) DraftKings, FanDuel, Caesars, Fanatics, BetMGM, ESPN Bet and bet365.

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Kevin Duffey

A graduate of the University of Florida and founder of Saturday Down South, Kevin is a college football enthusiast.