{"id":155457,"date":"2026-02-14T12:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155457\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:49:06","slug":"kentucky-vs-florida-prediction-odds-spread-time-2026-college-basketball-picks-from-proven-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155457\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky vs. Florida prediction, odds, spread, time: 2026 college basketball picks from proven model"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of the top three teams in the SEC face off when the 25th-ranked Kentucky Wildcats<\/a> meet the No. 14 Florida Gators<\/a> on Saturday. Kentucky defeated Tennessee 74-71 on Feb. 7, while Florida, the defending national champions, rolled to an 86-66 win at Georgia on Wednesday. The Wildcats (17-7, 8-3 SEC), who are tied for second in the SEC with Arkansas, are 3-3 on the road this season. The Gators (18-6, 9-2 SEC), who lead the conference, are 10-1 on their home court. <\/p>\n

Tipoff from the Stephen C. O’Connell Center in Gainesville, Fla., is set for 3 p.m. ET. Kentucky leads the all-time series 111-42, including a 41-26 edge in games played at Gainesville. Florida is a 12.5-point favorite in the latest Kentucky vs. Florida odds from DraftKings Sportsbook, while the over\/under for total points scored is 152.5. Before making any Florida vs. Kentucky picks,\u00a0check out the men’s college basketball predictions and betting advice from the SportsLine Projection Model<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every college basketball game 10,000 times and it enters Week 15 on a sizzling 11-1 run on its top-rated over\/under\u00a0college basketball<\/a>\u00a0picks<\/a>\u00a0dating back to last season, and is on an 11-5 run on top-rated CBB side picks. Anyone following its\u00a0college basketball<\/a>\u00a0betting<\/a>\u00a0advice at\u00a0sportsbooks<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0betting apps<\/a>\u00a0could have seen strong returns.<\/p>\n

Now, the model has simulated Kentucky vs. Florida<\/a>\u00a010,000 times and just revealed its coveted men’s college basketball picks and betting predictions. You can head to SportsLine now to see the model’s picks<\/a>. Here are several men’s college basketball odds<\/a> and men’s college basketball betting lines for Kentucky vs. Florida:<\/p>\n

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Florida -12.5 at DraftKings Sportsbook<\/p>\n

Kentucky vs. Florida over\/under:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

152.5 points<\/p>\n

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Florida -1053, Kentucky +668<\/p>\n

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See picks at SportsLine<\/a><\/p>\n

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How to make Kentucky vs. Florida picks<\/p>\n

SportsLine’s model is going Over on the total (152.5 points). The Over has hit in each of the last five head-to-head matchups. The Over has also hit in two of the last three Kentucky games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The model projects the Wildcats to have two players score 13.2 points or more, including Otega Oweh’s<\/a> projected 18.7 points. The Gators are projected to have five players score 11.3 or more points, led by Thomas Haugh<\/a>, who is projected to score 17.8 points. The Over clears in well over 60% of simulations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The model also says one side of the spread hits well over 60% of the time.\u00a0You can only see that pick at SportsLine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So who wins Florida vs. Kentucky, and which side of the spread hits well over 60% of the time?\u00a0Visit SportsLine now to see which side of the Kentucky vs. Florida spread to back, all from the advanced model that has simulated this game 10,000 times<\/a>, and find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the top three teams in the SEC face off when the 25th-ranked Kentucky Wildcats meet the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8294,22416,22417,28,2530,30,29,74803,74805,74804,2529],"class_list":["post-155457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-college-basketball-picks","tag-florida","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-kentucky-florida-odds","tag-kentucky-florida-picks","tag-kentucky-florida-prediction","tag-kentucky-wildcats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}