Fri, Oct 16 ยท 7:35 PM ET
Memphis at Tulane
Memphis favored by 6.5 ยท total 55.5
Game has kicked off โ lines shown are the pre-kickoff close.

MemphisTigers
Away ยท American Athletic
-6.5
-258
ML

TulaneGreen Wave
Home ยท American Athletic
+6.5
+210
ML
Bet it or track it
Tap a price to send it to your DraftKings betslip. Tail it instead โ or as well โ and it gets graded into My Record once the game is final. Pushes are settled as pushes, which matters here: a 3 or a 7 is the most common margin in college football.
Returning production
| Memphis | Tulane | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 6% | 21% |
| Passing | 2% | 0% |
| Rushing | 0% | 60% |
| Receiving | 11% | 28% |
The read
- Forecast winds around 19 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 to 6.5 since it opened, toward the home side.
- A total of 55.5 sits on the high 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.
- SP+ and the market differ by 6.0 points โ 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
Memphis
11-10-2 ATS ยท 16-7 SU
13-10 O/U ยท 5-4 away
Tulane
14-11-1 ATS ยท 18-8 SU
11-15 O/U ยท 6-5-1 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 55.5 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 Tulane +0.5 versus the market's +6.5 โ a 6.0-point disagreement.
Context, not a pick โ tap the for what these numbers mean and what we measured.
Line movement
Spread (home)
7 โ 6.5-0.5
Total
53.5 โ 55.5+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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