Sat, Sep 5 ยท 3:30 PM ET
Boston College at Cincinnati
Cincinnati favored by 7 ยท total 51.5
Game has kicked off โ lines shown are the pre-kickoff close.

Boston CollegeEagles
Away ยท ACC
+7
+225
ML

CincinnatiBearcats
Home ยท Big 12
-7
-278
ML
Bet it or track it
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Returning production
| Boston College | Cincinnati | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 16% | 8% |
| Passing | 8% | 4% |
| Rushing | -62%* | 4% |
| Receiving | 23% | 15% |
* 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 14 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.
- The number sits exactly on 7, one of the margins college games land on most often โ so a half-point move either way changes more results here than the same move anywhere else on the board.
- The spread has moved from -7.5 to -7 since it opened, toward the away side.
- A total of 51.5 sits right around the middle 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
Boston College
11-11 ATS ยท 7-15 SU
12-10 O/U ยท 5-4 away
Cincinnati
10-12-1 ATS ยท 10-13 SU
9-13-1 O/U ยท 5-6 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 7 โ the 7-10 point band. In 1,074 archived games at this number, the favorite covered 51.2% of the time โ a coin flip once the 95% range (48.2โ54.2%) is taken into account.
- Total 51.5 โ this game's spread sits in the 7-14 point band. In 1,954 archived games with a spread this size, the over hit 48.6% of the time โ a coin flip once the 95% range (46.4โ50.8%) 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 Cincinnati -6.3 versus the market's -7
Context, not a pick โ tap the for what these numbers mean and what we measured.
Line movement
Spread (home)
-7.5 โ -7+0.5
Total
49.5 โ 51.5+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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