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CFB · Week 1 · Thu, Sep 3 · 6:00 PM ET · SHI Stadium · FINAL Massachusetts 37, Rutgers 21

Massachusetts at Rutgers. No call on the spread and no call on the total.

The call

The panel passed on this game

No call on this game. A pass is not a hidden call: nothing on this game enters the record.

How to read this page

The calls come first on this page: the spread and the total, each a Pick or a Lean, then Ace, Stack and Buck one by one. The market's number, our number and the gap between them sit further down as MODEL CONTEXT: that is the input our analyst panel argued from, not a call of its own. A Pick is our strongest call and goes on the record. A Lean is which way we lean on a game and is not a pick.The meter shows how strongly the panel backs the call. It is not a probability or a hit rate.

The signals and the market

2 independent signals on this game. The tally per side, every angle with its sample size, and the line movement from open to now open with membership. They are research context, never a pick. Membership

Model context

The numbers the panel argued from. Our models price a game, the panel makes the call, and the calls above are the call. Nothing in this block is a call.

Market line
pending
no capture on this game yet
Our model number
Rutgers by 9.2
the calibrated EL CFB rating number
Spread gap
both numbers are needed for a gap
Market total
pending
no capture on this game yet
Our total
no model number on this game
EL CFB Totals
Total gap
both numbers are needed for a gap

Trends and splits

Descriptive context, every line with the games it counts. Filters like these did not hold up as predictors in our testing, so none of this feeds a call and none of it is a reason a pick wins. Situational splits look back 3 seasons and need at least 8 decided games to be shown at all. Records against the number and on the total join these once our closing-line history is restored; the straight-up splits are live now.

Massachusetts
  • won 0 of their last 5 (n=5, 2025)
  • lost 16 straight
  • 1-12 straight up in road day games (n=13, 2023 to 2025)
Rutgers
  • won 2 of their last 5 (n=5, 2025)
  • 4-10 straight up in road divisional games (n=14, 2023 to 2025)
Over and under splits
  • Massachusetts have gone OVER in 7 of their last 10
    total · over · lean · n=10
    Massachusetts's last 10 gradable games landed over 70% vs the consensus total. Streak continuation tested 2013-2025: 49.5% train / 46.4% held-out 2025, it does NOT persist. A real recent pattern, weigh with the matchup, not alone.
The rest of the splits we can compute on this game
Massachusetts
  • won 0 of their last 10 (n=10, 2025)
  • 1-10 straight up in divisional games (n=11, 2023 to 2025)
  • 1-10 straight up in divisional games after a straight up loss (n=11, 2023 to 2025)
  • 2-16 straight up on the road (n=18, 2023 to 2025)
  • 2-15 straight up at home after a straight up loss (n=17, 2023 to 2025)
  • 3-22 straight up in day games after a straight up loss (n=25, 2023 to 2025)
  • 1-7 straight up in day divisional games (n=8, 2023 to 2025)
  • 4-27 straight up after a straight up loss (n=31, 2023 to 2025)
  • 4-26 straight up in day games (n=30, 2023 to 2025)
  • 2-12 straight up on the road after a straight up loss (n=14, 2023 to 2025)
  • 3-15 straight up at home (n=18, 2023 to 2025)
  • 3-14 straight up in home day games (n=17, 2023 to 2025)
Rutgers
  • won 3 of their last 10 (n=10, 2025)
  • 9-18 straight up in divisional games (n=27, 2023 to 2025)
  • 7-14 straight up in day divisional games (n=21, 2023 to 2025)
  • 5-10 straight up on the road (n=15, 2023 to 2025)
  • 4-8 straight up in road day games (n=12, 2023 to 2025)
  • 6-10 straight up in divisional games after a straight up loss (n=16, 2023 to 2025)
  • 13-8 straight up at home (n=21, 2023 to 2025)
  • 5-8 straight up in home divisional games (n=13, 2023 to 2025)
  • 9-6 straight up in home day games (n=15, 2023 to 2025)
  • 5-4 straight up in night games (n=9, 2023 to 2025)
  • 6-5 straight up at home after a straight up loss (n=11, 2023 to 2025)
  • 8-7 straight up in day games after a straight up loss (n=15, 2023 to 2025)
  • 9-10 straight up after a straight up loss (n=19, 2023 to 2025)
  • 14-15 straight up in day games (n=29, 2023 to 2025)

Conditions at kickoff

Partially cloudy. 83F · wind 6 mph · 13% chance of precipitation

The ratings underneath, and where the numbers come from

The two numbers underneath

TeamEL ratingConference
Massachusetts -12.627 Mid-American
Rutgers -7.026 Big Ten

Our number includes about 2.5 points of home field. Full board: the power ratings.

Where the numbers come from. Schedules and finals come from the league data we load each night. Lines are the latest capture at DraftKings, FanDuel or BetMGM, with the book named beside every number. Every Pick locks when it posts and grades at that number on the public record. Our number is context; the panel makes the call. Research, never a guarantee. 21+.