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#8Florida at #25Missouri

Prediction · week 5, 2026 · Sat Oct 3, 2:30 PM CT / 3:30 PM ET · Memorial Stadium

Updated Tue Oct 13, 7:56 PM CT

Result

Final: Missouri 45, Florida 17

Closest: Elo (Florida by 0.4, missed by 28.4). 0 of 3 models named the winner. Our call was wrong.

Our call: Florida by 1.2Toss-up

All three models favor Florida. The line, shown for comparison only, has Florida by 5.5.

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 Florida by 2.3, Elo has Florida by 0.4, and Our model has Florida by 0.8. They are within 1.9 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.

Every model

ModelSaysMissed by
SP+
Florida +18.5 vs Missouri +13.7
Florida by 2.3 ✗30.3
Elo Closest
Florida 1751 vs Missouri 1679
Florida by 0.4 ✗28.4
Our model · experimental
Florida +15.5 vs Missouri +12.2
Florida by 0.8 ✗28.8
Line (benchmark)
pregame line
Florida by 5.533.5
Our call
average of SP+, Elo and Our model · Toss-up
Florida by 1.2 ✗29.2

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.

Last 5 meetings

Missouri leads 7–6 · last: Missouri 33–31, 2023

SeasonResultSite
2023Missouri 33–31Memorial Stadium
2022Florida 24–17Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
2021Missouri 24–23Memorial Stadium
2020Florida 41–17Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
2019Florida 23–6Memorial Stadium

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