Sat, Sep 19 · 8:00 PM ET
Houston at Texas Tech
Texas Tech favored by 7.5 · total 52.5
Game has kicked off — lines shown are the pre-kickoff close.
HoustonCougars
Away · Big 12
+7.5
+250
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Texas TechRed Raiders
Home · Big 12
-7.5
-310
ML
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Returning production
| Houston | Texas Tech | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 81% | 53% |
| Passing | 92% | 27% |
| Rushing | 523%* | 99% |
| Receiving | 61% | 57% |
* Outside 0–100% on purpose — 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 18 mph. Across 2,065 outdoor games, windy ones scored about 4 points fewer than calm ones — 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 7.5 the line sits just past 7, so the games decided by exactly 7 fall on the underdog's side of this bet.
- The spread has moved from -10 to -7.5 since it opened, toward the away side.
- A total of 52.5 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 — overs land almost exactly 50% against closing totals.
- SP+ and the market differ by 4.9 points — SP+ rates the home side higher. Worth knowing, but not a signal: we backtested betting that disagreement and it went 49.8% against the spread, versus the 52.4% needed to break even.
Team profile
With the ball
Without it
Last three seasons
Houston
13-10 ATS · 12-11 SU
9-14 O/U · 7-3 away
Texas Tech
17-6-1 ATS · 17-7 SU
11-13 O/U · 8-2-1 home
A record, not a signal — 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 7.5 — the 7-10 point band. In 1,074 archived games at this number, the favorite covered 51.2% of the time — a coin flip once the 95% range (48.2–54.2%) is taken into account.
- Total 52.5 — 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 — a coin flip once the 95% range (46.4–50.8%) is taken into account.
Measured on our archive of FBS games with a closing line and a final score. Context, not a pick — see every band.
SP+ team strength · 2026
SP+ implies Texas Tech -12.4 versus the market's -7.5 — a 4.9-point disagreement.
Context, not a pick — tap the for what these numbers mean and what we measured.
Line movement
Spread (home)
-10 → -7.5+2.5
Total
51.5 → 52.5+1.0
"From" is the first price we recorded, not necessarily the market open — DraftKings publishes no opening number, so we only claim what we saw.
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