Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 12:45 PM EDTWeek 1 · at Kentucky
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0-0 · Power #48
16
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Final
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0-0 · Power #52
24
▲ winner
Closing spread
UK -9.5
✓ TOL W
Total
48.5
▼ Under · 40 pts
Model before kickoff
TOL 18–29 UK
✓ UK (77%) won
Closing line · ESPN BET
SourceESPN BET closing line
OpenUK -9.5
CloseUK -9.5
Total48.5
Books differ and lines move; check your sportsbook before betting.
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Market

Open → close
Spread
No change since the open
Total
No change since the open
Line movement
Opening and closing line · tap a dot
Opened UK -9.5 · unchangedmodel UK -13.5
Opened 48.5 · unchangedmodel 47
Openline modelKickoff
Line context
Home favorites of 8.5–10.5 since 2023: won 80%, covered 45% (98 games)ⓘ
Closing line · ESPN BET
SourceESPN BET closing line
OpenUK -9.5
CloseUK -9.5
Total48.5
Books differ and lines move; check your sportsbook before betting.

Similar games

The recent games that looked most like this one before kickoff, and how they turned out

In the 10 games most like UK as a 9.5-point home favorite against TOL, the favorite won 8, covered 4, and 6 went over the total.

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This game: UK won 24–16; the favorite didn’t cover, as in 6 of the 10 similar games. 40 points stayed under 48.5, as in 4 of 10.
Favorite won
8 of 1080%
Normal range · usually 74%
Favorite covered
4 of 1040%
Normal range · usually 50%
Went over
6 of 1060%
Normal range · usually 52%

All three sit in the normal range for favorites of this size, so history shows no clear lean. Average result: favorite by 12.4 against an average line of 9.9; 48.4 points a game (usually 54.3). Of the 5 overs, 2 had cashed by the end of Q3. When games like this go over ›

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MatchGameLineFinalCoveredO/U
Very close
2024 · Week 8 · very close · similar spread & team ratings
-9.523–24 L O46
Very close
2023 · Week 5 · very close · similar spread & total
-1035–24 W O48.5
Very close
TULN vs USM
2022 · Week 4 · very close · similar situation & total
-11.7524–27 L O48.5
Very close
2023 · Week 1 · very close · similar situation & spread
-930–28 L O45.5
Very close
2024 · Week 10 · very close · similar spread & total
-9.559–28 W O46.5
Very close
2023 · Week 5 · very close · similar spread & team ratings
-10.549–10 W O43.5
Very close
TROY vs ARMY
2022 · Week 11 · very close · similar spread & total
-8.510–9 L U45.5
Very close
2023 · Week 10 · very close · similar total & spread
-9.7534–3 W U48.5
Very close
CAL vs UNLV
2022 · Week 2 · very close · similar total & situation
-12.520–14 L U49.5
Very close
2024 · Week 14 · very close · similar team ratings & total
-7.520–13 L U46.5
History, not a prediction. Every FBS game from 2022 on is compared with this one as it looked before kickoff (team strength, the betting line, season form, situation, venue and rest), and only close matches are kept. How matches are found

Signals

The data signal, and 1 trend and market move behind it
No clear signal on the spread
No clear signal on the total

None of these signals has beaten the market in our backtest, so this describes why the matchup is interesting — it isn’t a pick.

Small sample warning
Toledo have 0 games with a line this season; trends this early are mostly noise.
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Game conditions

At kickoff
Home field
UK +2.5
home-field points in the model
Weather
74° · 7 mph
gusts 20 mph · at kickoff
Rest
TOL1st game
UK1st game
Even

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