Result
Final: Mississippi State 38, Minnesota 13
Closest: Elo (Mississippi State by 0.5, missed by 24.5). 1 of 2 models named the winner.
SP+ favors Minnesota; Elo favors Mississippi State.
No call was made for this game: Our model had no number for it before kickoff.
SP+ has Minnesota by 2.7 and Elo has Mississippi State by 0.5. SP+ and Elo are 3.2 points apart.
This page was first built after kickoff, so these are the week's projections as recorded then, from the same weekly ratings the season record scores.
Every model
| Model | Says | Missed by |
|---|---|---|
| SP+ Mississippi State +9.4 vs Minnesota +9.6 | Minnesota by 2.7 ✗ | 27.7 |
| Elo Closest Mississippi State 1584 vs Minnesota 1510 | Mississippi State by 0.5 ✓ | 24.5 |
| Our model · experimental no snapshot for this game | n/a | – |
| Line (benchmark) no pregame line | n/a | – |
Each margin is from the same weekly ratings the team pages use: SP+ and Elo from their rating gap, the home team given 2.5 points (none at a neutral site); Our model is this site's experimental rating; the line is the market's pregame margin, shown as a benchmark and never part of Our call. ✓ when a model named the winner, ✗ when it did not; Closest marks the one nearest the final margin (an exact tie goes to the first listed). How these work ›
Key injuries
No injury list was recorded for this game: its page was first built after kickoff.