Circa makes ‘Bama rare underdog to Georgia in SEC title game

Alabama has been an underdog lone erstwhile successful the past 12 years.

That volition alteration if, arsenic expected, the Crimson Tide plays Georgia successful the Southeastern Conference title crippled connected Dec. 4.

Circa Sports connected Monday made the Bulldogs 3-point favorites implicit Alabama successful a imaginable SEC rubric crippled matchup.

Georgia (10-0, 7-3 ATS) already has clinched the SEC East title. The Tide (9-1, 6-4 ATS), a 20-point location favourite implicit Arkansas connected Saturday, volition clinch the SEC West crown with a triumph implicit the Razorbacks.

Circa sportsbook manager Matthew Metcalf said helium took a small Georgia wealth implicit Alabama.

“I deliberation this is the lowest the enactment could perchance be, truthful I expect to spot Georgia money,” helium said. “I benignant of threw 3 up determination conscionable to spot wherever everybody was astatine and what they were thinking.

“I made the enactment -3½ but person heard a batch of radical saying it should beryllium higher, and I could decidedly spot that. I conscionable privation to spot the bets.”

Georgia is -155 connected the wealth enactment and Alabama +135. The full is 49½.

The past clip the Crimson Tide was getting points was successful 2015, erstwhile it was a 1-point underdog astatine Georgia. That snapped a streak of being favored successful 72 consecutive games that dated to the 2009 SEC rubric crippled against Tim Tebow’s Florida Gators.

Alabama rolled to a 38-10 triumph implicit Georgia arsenic a tiny ‘dog and has since been favored successful 91 consecutive games.

The Tide has won the past six meetings with the Bulldogs, including a 41-24 triumph past season. Alabama (9-1, 6-4 ATS) has been favored by 14 points oregon much successful each crippled this season, with their lone nonaccomplishment 41-38 astatine Texas A&M.

Georgia (10-0, 7-3 ATS) was a 2½-point underdog successful a season-opening 10-3 triumph implicit Clemson and has since been favored by 14 oregon much successful each game. The Bulldogs person the nation’s No. 1 scoring defense, allowing lone 76 points for an mean of lone 7.6 per game.

Georgia is the -155 favourite astatine Circa to triumph the nationalist championship. Ohio State is the +355 2nd prime and Alabama is the +410 3rd pick.

The Westgate SuperBook has Georgia arsenic the -140 favorite, followed by Alabama astatine +350 and Ohio State astatine 4-1.

Cincinnati is the 29-1 4th prime astatine Circa, followed by Oregon astatine 40-1, Michigan and Notre Dame astatine 47-1, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State astatine 90-1, Michigan State astatine 400-1 and Wake Forest astatine 600-1.

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