Week 4 SEC betting lines: Auburn a nine-point road favorite at K-State
The SEC’s lone remaining Thursday night matchup, Auburn at Kansas State, opened in Vegas with the Tigers as nine-point favorites.
Of the eight games involving SEC teams this week, it’s the only matchup featuring a single-digit point spread.
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Three of the four teams involved in the classic SEC tilts from Saturday (‘Cats-Gators, Bulldogs-Gamecocks) either are off or get relatively easy opponents — South Carolina, the first team to play three conference games, opened as a 21.5-point favorite against Vanderbilt — but Florida doesn’t get any such reprieve.
The Gators’ reward for knocking off a pesky Kentucky team in triple overtime? A trip to Tuscaloosa, Ala., against a Tide team sure to be ornery after what amounts to three weeks of preseason. Alabama opened as a 17.5-point favorite, which is two or three points higher than I’d figured entering Florida’s second game last night.
Georgia faces the largest spread, needing 41 points to cover in a home game against hapless Troy.
Here are the rest of the Week 4 lines. Kentucky, Ole Miss and Tennessee are off.
Matchup | Kickoff Time* | Line# |
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Auburn at Kansas State (Thursday) | 7:30 p.m. | Auburn -9 |
Troy at Georgia | Noon | Georgia -40 |
Texas A&M at SMU | 3:30 p.m. | Texas A&M -28 |
Florida at Alabama | 3:30 p.m. | Alabama -17.5 |
Indiana at Missouri | 4 p.m. | Missouri -14 |
Northern Illinois at Arkansas | 7 p.m. | Arkansas -10 |
Mississippi State at LSU | 7 p.m. | LSU -11 |
South Carolina at Vanderbilt | 7:30 p.m. | South Carolina -21.5 |
*Based on Eastern Time Zone
#Based on CG Technology lines as of 5:30 p.m. ET Sunday
Ole Miss and Kentucky are 3-0 against the spread. Auburn is 2-0 against the spread after the Tigers didn’t play last week. LSU is the only other SEC team unbeaten against the Vegas line after landing on the number (minus-31) against Louisiana-Monroe for a 2-0-1 record.
Vanderbilt is 0-3 against the spread despite beating Massachusetts. Alabama is 0-2 one week after its game against Florida Atlantic ended in a no contest — all bets were refunded because lightning forced an early ending. (Vegas counts the game as complete if the teams have played at least 55 minutes of game time.)