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#23Missouri at Kansas

Prediction · week 2, 2026 · Fri Sep 11, 7:00 PM CT / 8:00 PM ET · Memorial Stadium

Updated Tue Oct 13, 7:56 PM CT

Result

Final: Missouri 38, Kansas 21

Closest: Elo (Missouri by 3.7, missed by 13.3). 2 of 2 models named the winner.

Both models favor Missouri. The line, shown for comparison only, has Missouri by 5.5.

No call was made for this game: Our model had no number for it before kickoff.

SP+ has Missouri by 2.9 and Elo has Missouri by 3.7. SP+ and Elo are 0.8 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

ModelSaysMissed by
SP+
Missouri +12.9 vs Kansas +7.5
Missouri by 2.9 ✓14.1
Elo Closest
Missouri 1666 vs Kansas 1510
Missouri by 3.7 ✓13.3
Our model · experimental
no snapshot for this game
n/a–
Line (benchmark)
pregame line
Missouri by 5.511.5

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.

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