What the analytics predict for the 2024 Egg Bowl between Ole Miss and Mississippi State by an expert football model that picks winners.
Ole Miss hosts Mississippi State this Black Friday in the Egg Bowl, one of college football’s great rivalry games. Let’s check in with the latest predictions for the matchup from an expert analytical football model that projects scores and picks winners.
Mississippi State has nothing left to play for except honor, and the privilege of putting the final touches on keeping their rivals out of the playoff, coming in at 0-7 in the SEC basement.For that, let’s turn to the SP+ prediction model to get a preview of how Ole Miss and Mississippi State compare in this Week 14 college football rivalry game.As expected, the models are siding heavily with the Rebels over the Bulldogs in this matchup.
How good is it this season? So far, the SP+ model is 349-321-8 against the spread with a 52.1 win percentage after going 34-28 last weekend.Ole Miss is a 26.5 point favorite against Mississippi State, according to the updated lines posted to FanDuel Sportsbook for this week’s game.And it set the moneyline odds for Ole Miss at -4000 and for Mississippi State at +1400 to win outright.
That includes the College Football Power Index, a computer prediction model that uses data points from both teams to simulate games 20,000 times to pick winners.
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