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#5Miami at Wake Forest

Prediction · week 3, 2026 · Fri Sep 18, 6:30 PM CT / 7:30 PM ET · Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium

Updated Tue Oct 13, 7:56 PM CT

Result

Final: Miami 33, Wake Forest 20

Closest: Elo (Miami by 14.4, missed by 1.4). 2 of 2 models named the winner.

Both models favor Miami. The line, shown for comparison only, has Miami by 22.5.

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

SP+ has Miami by 19.7 and Elo has Miami by 14.4. SP+ and Elo are 5.3 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+
Miami +25.6 vs Wake Forest +3.4
Miami by 19.7 ✓6.7
Elo Closest
Miami 1930 vs Wake Forest 1508
Miami by 14.4 ✓1.4
Our model · experimental
no snapshot for this game
n/a–
Line (benchmark)
pregame line
Miami by 22.59.5

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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