#1Miami
ACC · 7-0
at
North Carolina
ACC · 4-3
Sat 31 Oct · 7:30 PM ET · ABC · Kenan Stadium
Rest MIA 7 days, UNC 7 days · Travel MIA 691 mi
Market
MIA −14.0
total 52.5 · spread opened MIA −14.5, moved +0.5 toward UNC
Atlas projectsAtlas
35.8–17.6
MIA–UNC · total 53.4
Difference
−4.2
on the spread · total +0.9
C77/100
Mixed record.

A wide disagreement of 4.2 points.

Across five seasons, cards this far from the market claimed 62% accuracy and delivered 48%. That gap is where this grade comes from.

How much weight this card's information deserves — not a recommendation.

Why

what the model is reading

Be careful about

  • One book is quoting this game, so the market number has no depth behind it and may move sharply.

Projection built Oct 29, 2026 4:14 AM ETMarket updated Oct 29, 2026 4:14 AM ETData status

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Market detail where the line opened, where it is now, and the prices
SpreadOpenCurrentMove
Miami−14.5−14.0+0.5
North Carolina+14.5+14.0−0.5
Price−110−112—

The spread has moved 0.5 toward North Carolina and the total has moved 2.0 up since the open.

TotalOpenCurrentMove
Game total50.552.5+2.0
Price (over)−110−110—
Moneyline · Miami −625 → −625 Moneyline · North Carolina +455 → +455 De-vigged, the market gives North Carolina a 17.3% chance. Books quoting: 1.

DraftKings · 1 book quoting

Projection detail the projected score, the chance of winning, the total's range and the most likely exact score
Projected score
35.8 – 17.6
Miami – North Carolina
Projected spread
MIA −18.2
market −14.0
Projected total
53.4
market 52.5 · 80% range 34–73
Miami win probability
86.9%
from the score grid
Over probability
50.8%
at the current total of 52.5
Most likely score
38–14
0.8% of the grid — one cell of 6,400
How this number is made. Every FBS team starts the season at a preseason expectation built from last season's ratings, roster talent, recruiting, returning production and the coaching situation. After every game a filter updates each team's offense and defense, opponent-adjusted, and the two teams' numbers meet here with the home advantage. The total adds the teams' pace and the wind. The market is never an input; it is shown so you can see where Atlas differs and read why.

Atlas difference

MeasureAtlas modelMarketDifference
SpreadMIA −18.2MIA −14.0−4.2
Total53.452.5+0.9
North Carolina win probability13.1%17.3%−4.2 pts
A difference is not an edge. Atlas has measured what happens at every size of disagreement, and the gap between what the model claims and what it delivers widens as the disagreement grows. This game sits in the 4-6 band, where cards have claimed 62% accuracy and delivered 48% across 634 games.
Matchup how each offense compares with the defense it faces, season to date, ranked among 138 FBS teams

Season to date through 24 October: Miami 7 games, North Carolina 7 games. Ranks are among 138 FBS teams, 1st the best; the crest marks which side ranks better on each line.

Miami offensevs North Carolina defense
49.01st
Points per gameedge Miami
20.940th
7.832nd
Yards per playedge Miami
5.2340th
210.918th
Rushing yards per gameedge Miami
156.991st
334.96th
Passing yards per gameedge Miami
224.184th
7.04th
20+ yard plays per gameedge Miami
3.425th
1.332nd
Sacks per gameedge Miami
2.067th
54%10th
Third-down conversion rateedge Miami
43%106th
76%7th
Red-zone touchdown rateedge Miami
46%28th
North Carolina offensevs Miami defense
24.496th
Points per gameedge Miami
15.311th
5.8288th
Yards per playedge Miami
5.0226th
111.7123rd
Rushing yards per gameedge Miami
58.91st
229.975th
Passing yards per gameedge North Carolina
241.6104th
3.3123rd
20+ yard plays per gameedge Miami
3.951st
2.189th
Sacks per gameedge Miami
2.719th
44%46th
Third-down conversion rateedge Miami
34%29th
61%65th
Red-zone touchdown rateedge Miami
39%14th
Miamivs North Carolina
Situational
+0.5731st
Turnover margin per gameedge Miami
−0.1484th
69.727th most
Plays per game
58.7129th most

Figures come from completed games only, so every one was known before kickoff. They are raw, not adjusted for opponents - All drivers has Atlas's adjusted view. College counts sack yardage as rushing, as the NCAA does.

Other models what FPI, SP+ and Elo say about this game, beside Atlas and the market
ModelMarginWinAs of
FPI (ESPN)MIA by 18.690%Oct 28
SP+MIA by 18.5—Oct 29
EloMIA by 20.6—Oct 29
AtlasMIA by 18.287%live
MarketMIA by 14.0—live

Each model's number for this game as its source published it before kickoff; Win is the favored side's chance to win, where the model gives one. FPI's margin and chance are ESPN's own. SP+ is the difference in the two teams' ratings, plus 2.5 for a home side; Elo is the difference in ratings at 24 points a point, plus 2.6 for a home side, as Atlas measured it on past seasons. None of these is an input to Atlas's number, and none is here to settle anything: they show where Atlas sits among other models.

How this grade was computed the four things that set the letter, out of a hundred
C77

Mixed card

The disagreement is wide enough that the model's historical claim runs well ahead of what it delivered.

Calibration 31/45
Market agreement 16/25
Card conditions 15/15
Data completeness 15/15

Atlas sits 4.2 points from the market. The calibration curve, fitted to every completed season out of sample, expects cards at that distance to fall 11.0% short of what they claim — which is where the calibration component above comes from.

The season is mature enough for the team profiles to have settled, and the market has not moved much since it opened.

The grade describes how much weight the information deserves. It says nothing about which side of a market anyone should take, and Atlas does not publish that. How grades are computed.

All drivers all 4 things the model is reading, and how each team ranks against the rest of the country
Offense, in points MIA +14.8 pts

Atlas rates Miami's offense at +14.8 points a game against FBS average and North Carolina's at +0.0, opponent-adjusted, after 6 games this season.

MiamiNorth Carolina
Defense, in points MIA +6.6 pts

Atlas rates Miami's defense at +10.4 points a game against FBS average and North Carolina's at +3.8, opponent-adjusted, after 6 games this season.

MiamiNorth Carolina
Pace and possessions 103 plays · 25th percentile

A combined 103 plays per game — the 25th percentile of this season's games. Few possessions, which pulls the projected total down.

fewer playsmore plays
Home advantage UNC +2.6 pts

Playing at home is worth 2.6 points in this season's model, fitted, not assumed.

MiamiNorth Carolina
Market movement how far the market has moved since the number opened, and which way

Total, open to current

53.0 51.5 50.0 Atlas 53.4 — beyond this range open 50.5 now 52.5
MeasureValue
Opening number50.5
Current number52.5
Market directionup 2.0
Atlas directionup

Atlas and the market have moved the same way on this total.

Two findings that are not in conflict

Atlas has measured disagreement twice, against two different reference points, and they say different things.

Measured againstWhat it predicts
The closing numberthe model's own failure — so a large difference lowers the grade
The opening numberwhich way the line moves — tracked publicly, not graded

A model far from the close is wrong; a model far from the open is early. The second finding is tracked in the open closing-line record and is deliberately kept out of the grade.

Reliability record what Atlas claimed and what it delivered, across the seasons it never saw while being built

Calibration by disagreement band

82% 64% 45% this card0-110+ claimed realized

Two series, labeled directly. The widening gap is why Atlas grades large disagreements down.

This band, five seasons

MeasureThis bandAll cards
Realized accuracy48.3%49.2%
Claimed accuracy61.9%58.0%
Calibration gap−13.5 pts−8.8 pts
Seasons above 50%1 of 5—
Games measured6343,864
Read the gap, not the claim. Atlas's raw confidence numbers run high — a claimed 62% has historically delivered 48%. The grade already corrects for this. The claim is shown so the correction is visible rather than hidden.
What this card is. Research, analytics and market context. Atlas does not publish selections, does not size anything and does not project returns. Every figure is computed out of sample from a point-in-time database: nothing attached to a game uses information that did not exist before kickoff.