2026 season · frozen pregame numbers only
Accuracy
Every FINAL against the HX line and win probability that were live before kickoff. The pregame number is frozen when a game is stamped and never rewritten by a later board. Games with no frozen number are marked n/a, not backfilled.
Winners picked
70.4%
387 of 550 picks
Average miss
13.2 pts
|final margin − HX line|
Brier score
0.194
win % calibration · lower is better
Graded
551
of 696 FINALs · 145 n/a
Against the Vegas line
On the 344 graded games that also have a Vegas line on file, HX missed by 13.1 points on average and the stamped Vegas line missed by 11.6. The market is still better. That is the Soft-cal FLAG, and it stays up. Bias -0.9 (positive = home teams beat the HX line).
By week
Tap a week for its games| Week | Graded | Winners | Avg miss | Brier | HX / Vegas miss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 0 | 6/8 | 50.0% | 15.1 | 0.247 | 15.1 / 14.8 (6) |
| Week 1 | 43/91 | 83.7% | 14.9 | 0.130 | 14.9 / 13.6 (43) |
| Week 2 | 47/86 | 78.7% | 12.2 | 0.147 | 12.2 / 10.5 (47) |
| Week 3 | 56/75 | 87.5% | 10.0 | 0.119 | 10.0 / 8.7 (56) |
| Week 4 | 57/71 | 73.7% | 12.8 | 0.181 | 12.8 / 11.2 (57) |
| Week 5 | 55/59 | 70.4% | 14.9 | 0.195 | 14.9 / 13.2 (55) |
| Week 6 | 56/58 | 58.9% | 12.7 | 0.232 | 12.7 / 11.5 (56) |
| Week 7 | 57/62 | 59.6% | 12.7 | 0.234 | 12.5 / 13.7 (6) |
| Week 8 | 54/56 | 57.4% | 13.0 | 0.260 | 12.3 / 7.4 (7) |
| Week 9 | 54/56 | 81.5% | 12.4 | 0.153 | 20.8 / 17.0 (6) |
| Week 10 | 61/63 | 59.0% | 16.0 | 0.266 | 21.8 / 19.8 (5) |
| Week 11 | 5/11 | 80.0% | 16.8 | 0.123 | n/a |
| Season | 551/696 | 70.4% | 13.2 | 0.194 | 13.1 / 11.6 (344) |
Week 5 games
59 FINALs- WKU 13 at NM State 342026-10-01 · Box scoreHX WKU −13.077.5%miss 34.0
- North Texas 45 at Tulsa 442026-10-01 · Box scoreHX Tulsa −0.350.9%miss 1.3
- Liberty 30 at Delaware 142026-10-02 · Box scoreHX Liberty −2.857.4%miss 13.2
- Pitt 35 at Virginia Tech 332026-10-02 · Box scoreHX Virginia Tech −4.461.3%miss 6.4
- Penn St 13 at Northwestern 342026-10-02 · Box scoreHX Penn St −4.361.1%miss 25.3
- Texas Southern 10 at florida-atlantic 662026-10-03n/a · FCS opponent: no HX
- McNeese 14 at lsu 632026-10-03n/a · FCS opponent: no HX
- Samford 14 at uab 332026-10-03n/a · FCS opponent: no HX
- Toledo 39 at Ball St 242026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Toledo −21.186.5%miss 6.1
- Florida 17 at Missouri 452026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Missouri −5.664.1%miss 22.4
- Akron 17 at Central Mich 412026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Central Mich −3.860.1%miss 20.2
- UTEP 7 at New Mexico 612026-10-03 · Box scoreHX New Mexico −16.181.4%miss 37.9
- Eastern Mich 38 at UMass 142026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Eastern Mich −17.983.4%miss 6.1
- Cincinnati 7 at Arizona 342026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Arizona −15.180.2%miss 11.9
- Louisville 28 at NC State 312026-10-03 · Box scoreHX NC State −0.651.6%miss 2.4
- San José St 20 at Hawaiʻi 162026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Hawaiʻi −14.879.8%miss 18.8
- Washington 21 at USC 252026-10-03 · Box scoreHX USC −5.263.1%miss 1.2
- Stanford 3 at Wake Forest 572026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Wake Forest −4.862.4%miss 49.2
- Virginia 7 at Florida St 382026-10-03 · Box scoreHX PK50.0%miss 31.0PK
- Notre Dame 37 at UNC 262026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Notre Dame −26.390.1%miss 15.3
- Arkansas St 20 at Louisiana 232026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Louisiana −4.561.7%miss 1.5
- UL Monroe 35 at South Alabama 522026-10-03 · Box scoreHX South Alabama −10.473.5%miss 6.6
- ODU 10 at Georgia St 422026-10-03 · Box scoreHX ODU −5.864.6%miss 37.8
- Ga Southern 31 at Coastal 242026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Coastal −2.857.5%miss 9.8
- W Virginia 42 at Iowa St 452026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Iowa St −9.972.5%miss 6.9
- Michigan 14 at Minnesota 202026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Michigan −6.065.0%miss 12.0
- Auburn 14 at Tennessee 242026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Tennessee −9.471.8%miss 0.6
- Army 29 at LA Tech 312026-10-03 · Box scoreHX LA Tech −11.074.4%miss 9.0
- Middle Tenn 0 at Kansas 552026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Kansas −24.789.1%miss 30.3
- UCF 17 at Houston 272026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Houston −11.374.8%miss 1.3
- Kentucky 35 at S Carolina 342026-10-03 · Box scoreHX S Carolina −12.176.1%miss 13.1
- Marshall 17 at JMU 452026-10-03 · Box scoreHX JMU −7.568.1%miss 20.5
- Ohio 13 at Kent St 102026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Ohio −17.583.0%miss 14.5
- Alabama 56 at Miss St 232026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Alabama −13.377.9%miss 19.7
- Maryland 23 at Nebraska 482026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Nebraska −11.174.6%miss 13.9
- Miami 41 at Clemson 132026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Miami −0.952.5%miss 27.1
- Memphis 59 at Charlotte 82026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Memphis −20.786.1%miss 30.3
- Texas Tech 29 at Colorado 72026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Texas Tech −17.883.3%miss 4.2
- Baylor 55 at Arizona St 192026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Arizona St −5.363.6%miss 41.3
- Arkansas 7 at Texas A&M 342026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Texas A&M −24.388.9%miss 2.7
- Western Mich 20 at Buffalo 172026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Western Mich −8.670.3%miss 5.6
- BYU 17 at TCU 102026-10-03 · Box scoreHX BYU −2.456.6%miss 4.6
- Michigan St 3 at Wisconsin 312026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Wisconsin −14.078.9%miss 14.0
- Purdue 24 at Illinois 172026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Illinois −14.379.2%miss 21.3
- Ohio St 31 at Iowa 142026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Ohio St −9.772.2%miss 7.3
- Boston Coll 16 at SMU 252026-10-03 · Box scoreHX SMU −28.391.3%miss 19.3
- UTSA 16 at Rice 142026-10-03 · Box scoreHX UTSA −12.777.1%miss 10.7
- Temple 17 at USF 132026-10-03 · Box scoreHX USF −15.580.7%miss 19.5
- Vanderbilt 14 at Georgia 382026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Georgia −24.388.8%miss 0.3
- Bowling Grn 24 at Miami (OH) 202026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Miami (OH) −15.480.6%miss 19.4
- Syracuse 42 at UConn 412026-10-03 · Box scoreHX UConn −1.654.3%miss 2.6
- Navy 9 at Air Force 142026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Navy −0.952.4%miss 5.9
- Cal 31 at UNLV 392026-10-03 · Box scoreHX UNLV −7.167.3%miss 0.9
- Oregon St 56 at Colorado St 262026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Oregon St −3.759.8%miss 26.3
- Utah St 18 at Boise St 372026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Boise St −9.972.6%miss 9.1
- Indiana 47 at Rutgers 152026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Indiana −13.177.6%miss 18.9
- Fresno St 26 at Wash St 62026-10-03 · Box scoreHX Wash St −5.263.1%miss 25.2
- Texas St 29 at San Diego St 312026-10-03 · Box scoreHX San Diego St −3.258.6%miss 1.2
- Wyoming 0 at N Dakota St 282026-10-03 · Box scoren/a · Newcomer: no pregame HX line
How games are graded
- The pregame number is the HX board that was live when the game was stamped FINAL, saved on the game (Week 0 was frozen before the coach-change moves). Later refits never touch it.
- HX line and win % come from those two numbers through the board's matchup engine (Elo = 1500 + 55 × HX, 60 points home field).
- Winners picked counts games where the HX favorite won; pick'ems don't count. Average miss = |final margin − HX line|. Brier = squared gap between the HX win % and the result (0 is perfect, 0.25 is a coin flip).
- n/a: FCS opponents (no HX), and 2026 newcomers' games before they joined the board. These are never filled in from a later board.
- Vegas comparison uses only games with a Vegas line on file. Method on The Model.