Week 1 — 2026 NFL Predictions

What our model thinks of every Week 1 matchup, scored before any 2026 game has been played. Compare to the Vegas line for each game. Once kickoff starts, the predictions get graded weekly on the live tracker.

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How to read this page

Each card shows one Week 1 game scored by four models. Each number is the named team’s win chance.

  • QBElo (our model) — chess-style power rating, adjusted for the starting QB.
  • Elo — the simpler rating, no QB adjustment.
  • ML — a calibrated logistic model on form / rest / rating features.
  • Vegas — the de-vigged moneyline (the benchmark).

Cards with an orange highlight are where our model and Vegas pick different winners — the interesting ones.

Where the Vegas lines come from: the schedules table published by nflverse — a free public aggregator. We convert both moneylines to a probability and de-vig by normalizing, so the home and away win % sum to 100%. The numbers here are a snapshot from the last data pull and will move between now and kickoff.

Caveat for today: 2026 QB starters aren’t in nflverse yet, so QBElo currently rides on each team’s end-of-2025 rating without a per-game QB adjustment. As starters are announced QBElo will diverge from Elo more, especially in backup-QB games.