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Vanderbilt at Auburn

Prediction · week 4, 2026 · Sat Sep 26, 3:15 PM CT / 4:15 PM ET · Jordan-Hare Stadium

Updated Tue Oct 13, 7:56 PM CT

Result

Final: Auburn 21, Vanderbilt 15

Closest: Our model (Auburn by 4.8, missed by 1.2). 2 of 3 models named the winner. Our call was right.

Our call: Auburn by 2.9Toss-up

SP+ and Our model favor Auburn; Elo favors Vanderbilt.

The average of SP+, Elo and Our model; the line is left out and kept as a benchmark. Toss-up under 3 points, Lean 3 to 7, Strong 7 and over. More ›

SP+ has Auburn by 4.4, Elo has Vanderbilt by 0.5, and Our model has Auburn by 4.8. The furthest apart are 5.3 points from 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.

Every model

ModelSaysMissed by
SP+
Vanderbilt +9.7 vs Auburn +11.6
Auburn by 4.4 ✓1.6
Elo
Vanderbilt 1742 vs Auburn 1668
Vanderbilt by 0.5 ✗6.5
Our model · experimental Closest
Vanderbilt +8.2 vs Auburn +10.5
Auburn by 4.8 ✓1.2
Line (benchmark)
no pregame line
n/a–
Our call
average of SP+, Elo and Our model · Toss-up
Auburn by 2.9 ✓3.1

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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