First projected ACC, Pac-12 and SEC Championship Game odds posted: Georgia 4-point favorite over Alabama, matchup could be finalized Saturday

No Power 5 conference championship game matchups have been finalized as of yet, but we have our first projected opening lines for the ACC, SEC and Pac-12 title games. The projected lines are Georgia -4 against Alabama (SEC), Oregon -1 vs. Washington (Pac-12) and Florida State -7.5 against Louisville (ACC). Dec. 2 is conference championship Saturday, but the Pac-12 plays the night before as usual.

Georgia has at least a two-game lead over every other SEC East team, and the Bulldogs can clinch the divisio in two ways Saturday. The first is if No. 16 Missouri wins at home against No. 14 Tennessee, but UT is a 2-point favorite. The Volunteers are the only team in the SEC that can still win a head-to-head tiebreaker with UGA because they haven't played yet. They meet next Saturday in Knoxville, and the Dawgs are early 8-point favorites.

If UT doesn't cooperate against Mizzou, Kirby Smart's club can simply take care of business itself by beating Ole Miss in a 7 p.m. ET kickoff at Athens with UGA at -11. Simply as a fan, I'd really love to see Tennessee win Saturday and Georgia lose, which would make Saturday's matchup is epic.

Ole Miss can still win the West, but it's rather unlikely as it loses the head-to-head tiebreaker with Alabama, which is unbeaten in league play. Every other West team has at least two conference losses and is eliminated. The Crimson Tide clinch the West with a win as 11-point favorites at Kentucky with a noon kickoff Saturday. I promise you that SEC officials want Georgia and Alabama to win out and then the Tide to upset UGA in a close title game so both can get to the playoff.

At DraftKings, Georgia is -200 to win the SEC title. Alabama is +150, Tennessee is +4000 and Ole Miss is +10000. UGA is -240 to  make the playoff and Bama is +240. There's no odds posted for the Vols and Rebs.

There's no divisions in the ACC, so the two teams with the best conference records meet in the title game. FSU is unbeaten overall and 7-0 in the league and has already clinched a spot in the title game. Louisville is 6-1 in ACC play and every other conference team has at least two losses. Thanks to its 31-24 win over Virginia on Thursday, the Cardinals would clinch a spot opposite FSU if North Carolina is upset at home by Duke on Saturday, but that's very unlikely considering the Blue Devils are missing star quarterback Riley Leonard.

In previous seasons when the ACC had divisions, Florida State and Louisville couldn't meet in the title game because they were both in the much stronger Atlantic Division (with Clemson). FSU is -400 to win the ACC title. Louisville is +300 and North Carolina is +8000. The Seminoles have the shortest odds of any team in the nation to reach the playoff at -320.

There's also no divisions in the Pac-12 … and no Pac-12 after this season, at least as we know it. Several teams are still alive to reach the title game, but if Washington (6-0 in league) and Oregon (5-1) win out, they will meet in Las Vegas. Washington and Heisman Trophy favorite Michael Penix Jr. would still get there even with one loss.

While UGA-Bama and FSU-Louisville would not be regular-season rematches, Oregon-Washington would. They played one of the most entertaining games of the season with the Huskies prevailing 36-33 at home on Oct. 14 on an 18-yard TD pass from Penix Jr. to Rome Odunze with 1:38 left.

It's interesting that the Huskies opened as short dogs at a neutral site, but Oregon is the -140 Pac-12 favorite with Washington at +155, Oregon State +1800, Utah +2200, USC +2500 and Arizona +3500. The Ducks are -110 to make the playoff and Huskies are +145. 

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