Vegas weighs in with early lines on several 2024 Auburn matchups
AUBURN — DraftKings is already looking ahead at the upcoming College Football season and is taking bets on early lines for a couple of major matchups this fall. Among the featured contests are five that include Auburn, all pivotal games in the second season under Hugh Freeze.
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Oklahoma at Auburn: (Oklahoma -3)
Auburn at Georgia: (Georgia -24)
Auburn at Missouri: (Missouri -10)
Texas A&M at Auburn: (Texas A&M -3.5)
Auburn at Alabama: (Alabama -15)
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The way it’s shaping up, the Tigers will be favored at home against Alabama A&M, Cal, New Mexico, Arkansas, Vanderbilt and Louisiana-Monroe. The one spread that won’t be determined until the season starts and the game gets closer is the game at Kentucky that occurs the week after the contest at Missouri. Both Kentucky and Auburn are somewhat of unknown quantities at this point, as Kentucky replaces quarterback Devin Leary.
If Auburn wants to top seven regular season wins for the first time since the 2019 season, it will have to win every game favored, and then likely pull an upset (by the point spread). Oklahoma at home, Texas A&M at home, at Missouri and at Kentucky are the four best opportunities to make that happen, as the Tigers are also attempting to win their first game against a ranked opponent since the 2021 season against No. 10 Ole Miss.
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The Tigers will welcome Oklahoma to Jordan-Hare Stadium for the first time. The two teams have met just twice before – both matchups coming in the Sugar Bowl (1972, 2017). It will be Vanderbilt’s first visit to the Plains since 2016. Arkansas and Texas A&M are both regular visitors to Auburn.
The Tigers haven’t traveled to Kentucky since 2015 and haven’t lost in Lexington since 1966, winning the last nine straight. The two teams have only played only twice in the last 13 seasons, with Auburn winning the last meeting in 2020 to start the Covid-shortened season.
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Auburn and Missouri have only played four times ever, with the orange and blue Tigers holding a 3-1 advantage and winning the last three. Auburn won the 2013 SEC title game, won in Columbia 51-14 in 2017, then squeaked by 17-14 at home in 2022.
Of course, trips to Alabama and Georgia are the norm. We’ll see if the SEC ever switches back to the Tigers playing one rival on the road and one at home as was done for years and years before the 2013 season, when Auburn hosted Georgia for the second straight year and started this current trend.
Absent from the schedule in 2024 are regulars LSU, Ole Miss and Mississippi State. The conference is doing away with divisions in football for the 2024 season.
