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Wake Forest at Purdue

Prediction · week 2, 2026 · Sat Sep 12, 11:00 AM CT / 12:00 PM ET · Ross-Ade Stadium

Updated Tue Oct 13, 7:56 PM CT

Result

Final: Wake Forest 38, Purdue 36

Closest: Elo (Wake Forest by 5.4, missed by 3.4). 1 of 2 models named the winner.

SP+ favors Purdue; Elo favors Wake Forest.

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

SP+ has Purdue by 2.1 and Elo has Wake Forest by 5.4. SP+ and Elo are 7.5 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+
Wake Forest +1.6 vs Purdue +1.2
Purdue by 2.1 ✗4.1
Elo Closest
Wake Forest 1516 vs Purdue 1318
Wake Forest by 5.4 ✓3.4
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.

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