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Georgia odds to win the NCAA National Championship in 2015 were set at 13/1 at AceSportsbook.com.
The Bulldogs had the 7th shortest odds of any College Football team heading into the new season.
Oddsmakers have high hopes for Georgia to perform better than their 8-5 record last year, pricing the Bulldogs at -115 both ways to win 9.5 regular season games (9 or 10).
The make or break game will be pretty early in the season at South Carolina on September 13.
David Ching of ESPN.com:
Two of the favorites in the SEC East will meet early in the season in Columbia, where the Gamecocks haven’t lost since 2011. They’ve beaten Georgia in their last two trips to Williams-Brice Stadium, including a 35-7 thrashing in 2012. The margin for error is typically narrow within the division, so the winner of this one will be the early team in the East driver’s seat.
Ching notes that Georgia was a much better team last year than their 8 wins might indicate but that they were decimated by injuries.
Scout.com suggests that last year’s injury bug may have been a blessing in disguise of sorts.
It’s not the type of thing that coaches like to talk about, but star quarterback Aaron Murray’s injury turned out to be blessing in disguise, giving Hutson Mason a solid few games of experience to be ready for this year. The linebacking corps started to come together, playmakers were found to fill in the gaps, and the adjustments were made to be good enough to hang with an Auburn and come close to fighting through to ten wins. But close doesn’t count in the SEC, or in the games against the non-conference big boys.
- Ean Lamb, Gambling911.com
