For entertainment purposes only … cough, cough … or in case you live in Las Vegas or Atlantic City, or are planning to visit one of those gambling-legal areas, we will provide you with occasional betting advice on SEC teams this season.

Let’s start things off with two wagers I would recommend and two I wouldn’t touch. I’m using odds from the site 5Dimes.

TAKE A SHOT

Auburn -120 to play in New Year’s Six bowl game

Will the Tigers win the SEC West Division? I certainly can see that, and they are +350 to do so. I like the schedule as both Georgia and Alabama have to visit The Plains. Auburn might not be an underdog all season with road games at LSU, Kentucky, Arkansas (without Jonathan Williams) and Texas A&M. I love quarterback Jeremy Johnson and think new coordinator Will Muschamp should turn around a defense that was porous in 2014.

But even if Auburn loses, say, two SEC games, it should still go to a New Year’s Six bowl. I expect the Tigers to finish no worse than second in the toughest division in college football and thus high enough in the College Football Playoff rankings to play in the Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl or Peach Bowl. The other three New Year’s Six bowls are the Rose (which will feature Big Ten vs. Pac-12) and the two national semifinals, the Cotton and Orange.

Mississippi State +110 for under 7 wins

Be aware that win totals at sports books don’t include any conference championship games or bowls — just the 12 regular-season games. Coach Dan Mullen did an amazing job with the Bulldogs last season as they reached No. 1  in the polls for a while. But I believe MSU was exposed late in the season in losing three of its final four games, including being pushed around by Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl.

Dak Prescott is the best returning quarterback in the SEC, but he’s one of just seven returning starters, among the fewest in the country. MSU’s top offensive player other than Prescott from last year, running back Josh Robinson, is now in the NFL and so is the team’s best defender from 2014 in linebacker Benardrick McKinney. I believe MSU loses all four SEC road games (Auburn, Texas A&M, Missouri and Arkansas) as well as at home to Alabama and Ole Miss. So a 6-6 record at best.

NOT WORTH THE RISK

Nick Chubb +1200 for Heisman Trophy

Georgia’s freshman running back is the third-favorite on the site to win the Heisman Trophy behind TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin (+700) and Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliott (+875).

It’s still hard to believe that Georgia hasn’t had a Heisman winner since the incomparable Herschel Walker way back in 1982. So why don’t I like Chubb even though he rushed 219 times for 1,457 yards and 14 scores in 2014 as the SEC Freshman of the Year? For one, I don’t think defenses will respect Georgia’s quarterback, stacking eight and nine in the box to slow the running game.

Second, Chubb is still going to have to share carries with very talented sophomore Sony Michel and senior Keith Marshall. But mainly it’s because running backs don’t win the Heisman any more. It’s essentially a quarterback award now. Thus, don’t bother on LSU’s Leonard Fournette (+1300), either.

Alabama +190 to make four-team playoff

There’s no such thing as rebuilding in Tuscaloosa under Nick Saban, but this feels a lot like 2010 for the Tide in my opinion. Alabama beat Texas in the BCS Championship Game following the 2009 season to finish 14-0 but then “slipped” to 10-3 the next year and the Capital One Bowl.

The Alabama defense should again be one of the nation’s best and has perhaps the best front seven in the country.

But I’m not sold on the quarterback situation — now a bit muddled with Jake Coker’s foot injury that will cost him several days of practice — or that Amari Cooper can be suitably replaced, even with all those five-star recruits at receiver. The Tide will lose at Georgia and Auburn in the regular season, and I don’t expect a two-loss team makes the playoff even as an SEC champion.