Dallas Cowboys vs Los Angeles Rams

The model does not think this one is close. The Rams rate 1st of 32 at +6.3, the Cowboys 11th at +1.5, and once home field is applied the line lands on the Rams by 7.5 — 70% to win. That is the 2nd-widest gap among the 16 games on the Week 15 board. A preseason rating spread this size is not a promise: it says nothing about turnovers, health, or a defense that shows up different than last year. What it does say is that the Cowboys need the price to be wrong, not the matchup.

The sharpest unit gap in the game runs one way: the Rams offense grades +4.2 (1st of 32) against a Cowboys defense at -3.2 (32nd) — 7.3 points of separation on our scale, and the single biggest reason the line sits where it does. Going the other direction, the Cowboys offense (+3.9, 3rd) meets the Rams defense (+1.9, 2nd), a 2.0-point gap. Special teams adds to it: the Cowboys grade +0.7, 7th in the league, against +0.2 (22nd) on the other side — close to a point of hidden margin.

Zoom out to the full season and the model projects the Rams at 11.3 wins (favored in 16 of 17) and the Cowboys at 8.8 (favored in 11) — 2.4 wins apart across the year. By win probability this is the 11th-hardest game on the Rams' schedule and the 1st-hardest on the Cowboys'. Nothing on the Cowboys' schedule projects harder than this one.

On the calendar, the Cowboys come off their bye and the Rams are on 7 days. The Cowboys come in off the Seahawks, the Rams off the 49ers. None of that is in the model line — our rating model prices teams and home field, nothing else — so rest and travel are yours to weigh on top of the number, not inside it.

One team has owned this series: the Cowboys are 8-4 in 12 regular-season meetings since 2002. They have also met 9 times in the playoffs. They last met in 2023: Cowboys won 43-20 in October. Over their last 4 meetings the Rams 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.

A note on confidence this high: the model has only been this sure 312 times in 3266 walk-forward games from 2013-2024. Teams it put in the 70-75% range won 71% of those. So a 70% Rams number is well supported by the record, and still loses about 29 times in 100 — which is exactly why the position is a price question, not a certainty question.

There is no market to compare against yet — Kalshi has not listed KXNFLGAME-26DEC20DALLAR — and we are not going to invent a price. What the model will say when it opens: Rams YES is only worth buying at 65c or below, which is a demanding ask on a side the model already has at 70%. The likelier position on a game this lopsided is the Cowboys at 25c or below, where the payoff does the work. Week 1's KXNFLGAME contracts opened in May 2026 and the rest of the slate lists as the season gets closer; this page picks up the price automatically when it does.

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