This week's picks

Big Al's CFB Lab

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Big 12

Baylor

4–3 (2–2 Big 12). 2026 season, games through Oct 24, 2026.

SP+ rating8.941st of 138
SP+ offense28.160th of 138
SP+ defense19.525th of 138
PRIME6.240th of 138
Elo161445th of 138
Week 9

Baylor at UCF

Fri, Oct 30, 7:30 PM ET. SP+ projects Baylor 24, UCF 21. Big Al's pick: Baylor (54%).

Full head to head

Offense

StatValueRank
Points per game29.166th
Yards per play5.45119th
Success rate37.4%122nd
Explosive play rate11.2%97th
Yards per carry4.65105th
Yards per pass attempt6.36113th
Sack rate allowed4.4%43rd
3rd down conversion39.7%73rd

Defense

StatValueRank
Points allowed16.119th
Yards per play allowed5.2632nd
Success rate allowed36.6%27th
Explosive plays allowed10.1%42nd
Yards per carry allowed4.0923rd
Yards per attempt allowed6.9462nd
Sack rate10.4%7th
3rd downs allowed35.3%45th

Players

Caden Knighten (RB), D.J. Lagway (QB), Daniel Cobbs (S), Dawson Pendergrass (RB), Garrick Ponder (LB), Gavin Freeman (WR), Louis Brown (WR).

Results

WeekOpponentResult
1vs. AuburnL 16–17
2vs. Prairie View A&MW 44–3
3vs. Louisiana TechW 36–19
4vs. ColoradoW 23–13
5at Arizona StateW 55–19
7vs. TCUL 6–17
8at KansasL 24–25

Ranks are out of 138 FBS teams. Stats from play-by-play; scoring counts FBS opponents only. Compare Baylor with any team.

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How we picked it

Three ratings look at a team in three different ways. Big Al's pick is the team at least two of them like.

Where the game is won

Each row puts one team's unit against the unit it faces, by national rank out of all FBS teams. An edge is a gap of 25 spots or more.

What these mean

  • SP+ Bill Connelly's opponent-adjusted efficiency rating. Points better than an average FBS team on a neutral field.
  • PRIME A second opponent-adjusted rating, built from possession efficiency, on the same points scale. SOS is schedule difficulty; SOR is wins above what an average team would get against that schedule.
  • Elo A results-only rating that moves after each game based on the score and the opponent. 1500 is average.
  • Success rate Share of plays that stay on schedule: 50% of the yards needed on 1st down, 70% on 2nd, all of it on 3rd and 4th.
  • Explosive rate Share of plays that are runs of 12+ yards or completions of 16+ yards.
  • Defense rows What opponents did against the team. Lower is better except sack rate and interception rate.
  • Projection Rating gap, plus 2.5 points for the home team, and games usually land within about 14 points of it. A coin flip is 50%.

Ratings: SP+ via CFB Update; PRIME via primecfb.com. Box and play stats computed from CollegeFootballData.com play data (via the public cfbfastR files), FBS games only for scoring. Rushing yards here exclude sacks, so they run higher than official totals. Ranks are out of 138 FBS teams.

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