Carson Beck’s first season as the starting quarterback for Georgia football produced an unbeaten regular season for a team coming off back-to-back national championships.
His decision to return in 2024 rather than enter the NFL draft is viewed as a big boost for the Bulldogs.
Sportsbooks are bullish on Beck.
Caesars lists him as the Heisman Trophy betting favorite for 2024 at +800, just ahead of five other quarterbacks as of Tuesday: Texas’ Quinn Ewers at +850, Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel at +900 and three players at +1200 in Alabama’s Jalen Milroe, LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier and Ohio State’s Will Howard.
“Obviously Georgia is going to be your 2024 favorite to win the national championship,” said Joey Feazel, the college football lead trader at Caesars. “Obviously a strong team, a strong coach. Easily this last year if the SEC title game doesn’t go the way it does, Georgia I could see winning that. I don’t think Michigan would have the answers for Georgia. That is kind of correlated in that aspect. Carson Beck getting that extra year to grow and being on such a talented team. Obviously, they lose some pieces with (Ladd) McConkey and (Brock) Bowers, but they have some good talent coming in and they just replaced a good tight end as well.”
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Georgia added Stanford tight end Benjamin Yurosek. Feazel said the Bulldogs have a tougher schedule but has the look of a team that could be dominant again.
BetMGM expects to release its Heisman odds in the next couple of weeks, but trading manager Seamus Magee said Ewers is more likely to be the favorite with Beck, who threw for 3,941 yards and 24 touchdowns last season, close…
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Publish date : 2024-02-22 09:04:42
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