Written before the game and kept as published. Final: Indianapolis Colts 30, Washington Commanders 13 — the graded call is above.
The schedule flags this one as a neutral-site game, which changes how the number is built. The model zeroes out the usual 2.5-point home adjustment, so on ratings alone — -1.8 for the Commanders against -1.6 for the Colts — it is the Colts by 0.2. Then the Commanders are without their usual starting quarterback (Marcus Mariota starts), and our QB-out term moves the line 4.9 points toward the Colts — the Colts by 5 and 64% to win. The Commanders are the designated home team on paper only.
The sharpest unit gap in the game runs one way: the Commanders offense grades +0.3 (18th of 32) against a Colts defense at -1.8 (22nd) — 2.0 points of separation on our scale, and the single biggest reason the line sits where it does. Going the other direction, the Colts offense (-0.6, 21st) meets the Commanders defense (-2.4, 27th), a 1.9-point gap.
Season-long, the model can barely split them: 6.1 projected wins for the Commanders against 6.7 for the Colts, favored in 7 and 7 of their 17 respectively. Two teams heading for the same neighborhood in the standings tend to produce exactly this kind of line. This game sits 10th-hardest on the Commanders' schedule and 11th-hardest on the Colts'.
One team has owned this series: the Colts are 4-2 in 6 regular-season meetings since 2002. They last met in 2022: Commanders won 17-16 in October. Over their last 4 meetings the Commanders are 1-3. Worth saying plainly — the model does not know any of that. It reads 2026 ratings and nothing else, so a lopsided series is a story, not a number on this page.
Does the model earn this number? In 666 of the 3266 walk-forward games it has been graded on (2013-2024, no market line used), it landed in the 60-65% range. Those favorites went 59%. The 64% on the Colts here sits in that same band, and the history runs slightly behind the claim.
Kalshi listed this game as KXNFLGAME-26OCT04INDWAS, and the contract has settled now that the game has been played. The last price we archived before kickoff is in the settled-market section on this page; there is no live price and no position left to take.
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