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#7LSU at #8Ole Miss

Prediction · week 3, 2026 · Sat Sep 19, 6:30 PM CT / 7:30 PM ET · Vaught-Hemingway Stadium

Updated Tue Oct 13, 7:56 PM CT

Result

Final: Ole Miss 32, LSU 24

Closest: Elo (Ole Miss by 4.8, missed by 3.2). 1 of 2 models named the winner.

SP+ favors LSU; Elo favors Ole Miss. The line, shown for comparison only, has LSU by 2.5.

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

SP+ has LSU by 6.4 and Elo has Ole Miss by 4.8. SP+ and Elo are 11.2 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

ModelSaysMissed by
SP+
LSU +24.1 vs Ole Miss +15.2
LSU by 6.4 ✗14.4
Elo Closest
LSU 1794 vs Ole Miss 1851
Ole Miss by 4.8 ✓3.2
Our model · experimental
no snapshot for this game
n/a–
Line (benchmark)
pregame line
LSU by 2.510.5

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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