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Sat, Sep 5 ยท 3:30 PM ET

Tulane at Duke

Duke favored by 14.5 ยท total 20.5

TulaneGreen Wave

Away ยท American Athletic

+14.5

-360

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DukeBlue Devils

Home ยท ACC

-14.5

+260

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SpreadTulane +14.5-360
SpreadDuke -14.5+260
TotalOver 20.5+114
TotalUnder 20.5-145

Returning production

TulaneDuke
Overall21%17%
Passing0%4%
Rushing60%43%
Receiving28%20%

The read

  • At 14.5 the line sits just past 14, so the games decided by exactly 14 fall on the underdog's side of this bet.
  • The spread has moved from -10 to -14.5 since it opened, toward the home side. It crossed 14, changing the result in 5.8% of historical games.
  • A total of 20.5 sits among the lowest quarter 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 5.2 points โ€” the market 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

TulanepercentileDuke

With the ball

74Efficiency (PPA)81
75Success rate78
15Explosiveness79
61Points per trip81

Without it

55Efficiency allowed26
18Success rate allowed27
61Havoc72
32Stuff rate92

Last three seasons

Tulane

14-11-1 ATS ยท 18-8 SU

11-15 O/U ยท 8-5 away

Duke

14-8-2 ATS ยท 16-8 SU

14-10 O/U ยท 6-3 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 14.5 โ€” the 14-17 point band. In 708 archived games at this number, the favorite covered 52.8% of the time โ€” a coin flip once the 95% range (49.1โ€“56.5%) is taken into account.
  • Total 20.5 โ€” this game's spread sits in the 14-21 point band. In 1,186 archived games with a spread this size, the over hit 47.0% of the time, so the other side has been the more frequent of the two โ€” though still short of the 52.38% break-even rate at โˆ’110.

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

AwayTulane#86 (-4.3)scores 22.8 ยท allows 27.7
HomeDuke#44 (+5.6)scores 32.8 ยท allows 27.6

SP+ implies Duke -9.3 versus the market's -14.5 โ€” a 5.2-point disagreement.

Context, not a pick โ€” tap the for what these numbers mean and what we measured.

Total20.5O +114 ยท U -145

Line movement

Spread (home)

-10 โ†’ -9.5+0.5

Total

52.5 โ†’ 50.5-2.0

crossed 14 ยท flips 5.8%200 checks ยท Aug 5 โ€“ Aug 29

"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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