Sat, Sep 12 ยท 3:30 PM ET
Arizona at BYU
BYU favored by 6.5 ยท total 48.5
Game has kicked off โ lines shown are the pre-kickoff close.

ArizonaWildcats
Away ยท Big 12
+6.5
+210
ML

BYUCougars
Home ยท Big 12
-6.5
-258
ML
Bet it or track it
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Returning production
| Arizona | BYU | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 65% | 79% |
| Passing | 120%* | 100% |
| Rushing | 60% | 97% |
| Receiving | 44% | 51% |
* Outside 0โ100% on purpose โ production is PPA-weighted, so a departing player who cost his team yards pushes the share above 100 and a returning group with negative combined output shows below zero.
The read
- Forecast winds around 15 mph. Across 2,065 outdoor games, windy ones scored about 4 points fewer than calm ones โ but the market moves its total to match, and backing the under in wind lost money at every threshold we tested. Conditions, not an edge.
- At 6.5 the line sits just short of 7, so the games decided by exactly 7 fall on the favorite's side of this bet.
- The spread has moved from -7.5 to -6.5 since it opened, toward the away side. It crossed 7, changing the result in 4.6% of historical games.
- A total of 48.5 sits on the low side of real college football scores (the median FBS game lands on 54). That places the number; it does not predict the result โ overs land almost exactly 50% against closing totals.
Team profile
With the ball
Without it
Last three seasons
Arizona
9-15 ATS ยท 12-12 SU
10-14 O/U ยท 4-6 away
BYU
15-9 ATS ยท 20-4 SU
13-11 O/U ยท 5-4 home
A record, not a signal โ we measured team-level situational splits at 50% against the spread. Useful for knowing a team, not for picking one.
How games at these numbers have gone
- Spread 6.5 โ the 3-7 point band. In 2,054 archived games at this number, the favorite covered 48.9% of the time โ a coin flip once the 95% range (46.7โ51.0%) is taken into account.
- Total 48.5 โ this game's spread sits in the 0-7 point band. In 2,739 archived games with a spread this size, the over hit 49.0% of the time โ a coin flip once the 95% range (47.2โ50.9%) is taken into account.
Measured on our archive of FBS games with a closing line and a final score. Context, not a pick โ see every band.
SP+ team strength ยท 2026
SP+ implies BYU -6.3 versus the market's -6.5
Context, not a pick โ tap the for what these numbers mean and what we measured.
Line movement
Spread (home)
-7.5 โ -6.5+1.0
Total
50.5 โ 48.5-2.0
"From" is the first price we recorded, not necessarily the market open โ DraftKings publishes no opening number, so we only claim what we saw.
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