ESPN Bet sets Tennessee Football's win total, SEC and College Football Playoff odds
ESPN Bet has Tennessee Football as the sixth best team in the SEC entering the 2024 season, according to ESPN’s ‘SEC Betting Preview’ last week. The Vols have an win total of 8.5 with 14-1 odds to win the SEC championship and 35-1 odds to win a national title.
ESPN also set Tennessee at +180 to make the new 12-team College Football Playoff and -240 to not make it.
Georgia was the pick to win the league, at +200. The Bulldogs came in ahead of Texas (+325), Alabama (+700), Ole Miss (+700) and LSU (10-1). Missouri also had 14-1 odds to win the league, matching the Vols, with the same playoff and national championship odds.
Georgia and Texas have win totals set at 10.5. Alabama, Ole Miss and LSU all have 9.5 win totals.
Georgia is +325 to win the College Football Playoff title and Texas is +850. Alabama has 15-1 odds, Ole Miss is set at 16-1 and LSU at 18-1.
Tennessee Football’s 2024 Schedule
Tennessee opens the season against Chattanooga on August 31 and faces North Carolina State on September 7 in Charlotte. After hosting Kent State on September 14, the Vols open SEC play with road games at Oklahoma (September 21) and at Arkansas (October 5).
Tennessee hosts Florida and Alabama back-to-back on October 12 and October 19, respectively, then has home games against Kentucky (November 2) and Mississippi State (November 9) before going to Georgia on November 16.
The regular season closes with the home finale against UTEP on November 23, then a trip to Vanderbilt on November 30.
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Kickoff times for the Vols this season
The opener against Chattanooga will be a 12:45 p.m. Eastern Time start on SEC Network and the North Carolina State game a week later will be in primetime, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC. The Kent State game will be a 7:45 p.m. ET start on SEC Network and the UTEP game on November 23 will be a 1 p.m. ET start and will stream on SEC Network+/ESPN+.
Kickoff windows — specific start times will be announced later in the year — have been set for the other eight games on schedule.
The regular-season finale at Vanderbilt on November 30 will be an early kickoff, between Noon-1 p.m. ET. Kentucky on November 2 and Mississippi State on November 9 will be night games, kicking off somewhere between 6-8 p.m. ET.
The other six games are set for flex times, kicking off either between 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET or 6-8 p.m. ET: at Oklahoma, at Arkansas, Florida, Alabama and at Georgia.
