What the analytics predict for Texas vs. Texas A&M by an expert football model that picks winners.
The return of a great college football rivalry game more than a decade finds Texas facing off against Texas A&M with major postseason implications to play for. Let’s check in with the latest prediction for the game from an expert football model that projects scores and picks winners., but it still has to win this game in order to have a chance to prove them right, and get some revenge against Georgia, which handed the then-No. 1 Longhorns their only loss of the season.
SP+ predicts that Texas will defeat Texas A&M by a projected score of 29 to 23 and to win the game by an expected margin of 5.7 points.SP+ is a “tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency” that attempts to predict game outcomes by measuring “the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football.”
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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