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Oddsmakers Apparently Don't Like Oklahoma's Chances to Win the SEC

Looking strictly at betting odds, the Sooners come in significantly behind programs that haven't won a conference title in generations.
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Oddsmakers Apparently Don't Like Oklahoma's Chances to Win the SEC
Oddsmakers Apparently Don't Like Oklahoma's Chances to Win the SEC

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Oddsmakers don’t think much of Oklahoma’s chances in the SEC.

OU formally joins the SEC on July 1, but the Sooners have been preparing for life in college football’s preeminent conference for going on three years now.

Still, according to betting odds released Monday by BetOnline.ag, OU’s maiden voyage in the Southeastern Conference will be a rough go in 2024.

The Sooners have the ninth-best odds to win the SEC Championship, tied with Auburn at 50/1.

That’s behind Georgia (2/1), Texas (5/2), Ole Miss (13/2), Alabama (9/1), Tennessee (9/1), LSU (10/1), Missouri (11/1), and Texas A&M (22/1).

The fact that Oklahoma — owner of more conference championships than any other program with 50 — sits significantly behind programs that haven’t won a conference title since 1963 (Ole Miss), 1969 (Missouri) and 1998 (Texas A&M) simply does not bode well for the Sooners in Brent Venables’ third season.

The rest of the SEC shapes up as such: Kentucky (80/1), South Carolina (90/1), Florida (100/1), Arkansas (125/1), Mississippi State (200/1) and Vanderbilt (250/1).

Other Power 4 Conferences show Clemson and Florida State with the best odds (5/2) to win the ACC, just ahead of Miami (5/1) and Louisville (11/2); Ohio State (5/4), Oregon (9/4), defending national champ Michigan (9/2) and Penn State atop the new Big Ten, and Kansas State (3/1), Utah (7/2) and Kansas (13/2) leading the reformed Big 12.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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