{"id":398951,"date":"2026-09-13T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398951\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:12:10","slug":"florida-opens-as-slight-betting-favorite-over-auburn-in-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398951\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida opens as slight betting favorite over Auburn in Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the SEC\u2019s top matchups in Week 3 is a rare meeting between Florida<\/a> and Auburn<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Gators and Tigers didn\u2019t play each other often during the SEC\u2019s divisional era \u2014 this will be just the 3rd meeting between these programs since 2008. <\/p>\n

According to the latest odds on Kalshi<\/a>, Florida is being priced as a slight favorite. The Gators are favored by 2.5 points and are given a 53% chance to cover the spread, per the market. <\/p>\n

The total for this game at Kalshi has been set at 52.5 points. <\/p>\n

This is matchup of two first-year head coaches in Jon Sumrall<\/a> and Alex Golesh<\/a>. Both programs are off to a 2-0 start in nonconference play, though tougher tests are sure to come against SEC opposition. <\/p>\n

Sumrall and Golesh have met once before. In 2024, Sumrall\u2019s Tulane Green Wave crushed Golesh\u2019s South Florida squad 45-10 in New Orleans. Tulane\u2019s quarterback for that game was Darian Mensah, the current Heisman Trophy front-runner. That USF team was led by current Auburn quarterback Byrum Brown. <\/p>\n

Brown did not have a strong game \u2014 he completed 12-of-18 passes for just 134 yards and finished with negative rushing yards on the day. <\/p>\n

Kickoff of this matchup between Florida and Auburn is set for 7 p.m. ET on Saturday night. <\/p>\n

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Spenser is a news editor for Saturday Down South and covers college football across all Saturday Football brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the SEC\u2019s top matchups in Week 3 is a rare meeting between Florida and Auburn. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-398951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398951","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=398951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}