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New Mexico at New Mexico State

Prediction · week 4, 2026 · Sat Sep 26, 2:30 PM CT · Aggie Memorial Stadium

Updated Tue Nov 10, 6:06 AM CT

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Final 42–18
New Mexico State1-2

Sat Sep 26, 2:30 PM CT · Aggie Memorial Stadium

Our call: New Mexico by 11.7 ✓ right

Final: New Mexico 42, New Mexico State 18

Closest: SP+ (New Mexico by 18, missed by 6.0). 4 of 4 models named the winner. Our call was right.

Records on this page are each team's record entering the game; the team pages and the scores page count this result.

Model comparison

4 of 4 models favored New Mexico

ModelSaysPregame win chanceMissed by
SP+ Closest
New Mexico +4.8 vs New Mexico State -15.7
New Mexico by 18 ✓New Mexico 90%6.0
Elo
New Mexico 1559 vs New Mexico State 1261
New Mexico by 9.4 ✓New Mexico 75%14.6
Our model · experimental
New Mexico -4.2 vs New Mexico State -14.6
New Mexico by 7.8 ✓New Mexico 71%16.2
Record
New Mexico State 1-2, New Mexico 2-1
New Mexico (better record) ✓––
Market
no market margin
n/a––
Our call
average of SP+, Elo and Our model
New Mexico by 11.7 ✓–12.3

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; Market is the margin the market expected before kickoff; ESPN FPI, SRS, Sagarin and Sonny Moore are rating gaps like SP+'s (each with its own home field), The Margin is that site's own model, and Record names the team with the better record (the home team on equal records). ✓ 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 ›

How the models read it

All four models favored New Mexico.

SP+ had New Mexico by 18.0, Elo had New Mexico by 9.4, and Our model had New Mexico by 7.8. They were within 10.2 points of each other.

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.

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