My assumption is that this particular group of odds makers must see a chance that the Gators make the SECCG. Maybe they get lucky and beat someone they shouldn't and that team loses another game in conference they shouldn't. I guess you can say if they get there anything can happen. I completely disagree with that logic, but that's the only thing that I can figure since the east is pretty weak.
That's the correct perspective. The oddsmakers are very wary about assigning enormous odds to programs that have consistently recruited well. That type is eligible to a massive uptick if merely one special player shows up at quarterback, or if everything suddenly jells.
Sportsbooks wrote many big tickets on Auburn last season, another team that has consistently been near the top of the recruiting rankings. They won't risk the same thing again. Fans prefer subjective rationale like Auburn has Malzahn and Florida doesn't. That has no relevance. Oddsmakers don't like to make too many subjective judgments. They hang numbers and absorb. In futures odds the one rule is don't make anything too high. The public are suckers. They'll take any number without realizing the severity of the rip off.
