Written before the game and kept as published. Final: Green Bay Packers 22, Minnesota Vikings 39 — the graded call is above.
Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings is a NFC North game, the first of two meetings, with the rematch in Week 10. The model has the Packers by 3 (59%) off a +0.6 to +1.4 rating gap. Division games carry weight the model does not price: head-to-head is the first tiebreaker in the NFC North, so a win here is worth more in January than the standings column shows.
The defense wins the headline matchup here: the Packers grade -0.2 on that side of the ball (10th of 32) against a Vikings offense at -2.4 (30th) — 2.1 points the wrong way for the offense. Going the other direction, the Packers offense (+1.6, 11th) meets the Vikings defense (+2.4, 1st), a 0.8-point gap. One more tilt worth noting: special teams favors the Vikings +0.5 (10th of 32) to +0.0 (28th).
On the standings side, NFC North games are the ones that decide the tiebreakers. Head-to-head record is the first tiebreaker between two teams in the same division, and division record is the next — so the value of this result is not just the win column. They meet again in Week 10, which makes a sweep the outcome with real leverage on the NFC North race.
Zoom out to the full season and the model projects the Vikings at 11.6 wins (favored in 10 of 17) and the Packers at 9.7 (favored in 11) — 1.9 wins apart across the year. By win probability this is the 11th-hardest game on the Vikings' schedule and the 6th-hardest on the Packers'.
Recent history, for context only: 48 regular-season meetings since 2002, 26-20 in the Packers' favour, plus 2 playoff games. They last met in 2025: Vikings won 16-3 in January. Over their last 4 meetings the Vikings are 3-1. It is not an input to the line — rosters turn over faster than series records do.
Calibration check, because a near-even number is the easiest kind to overtrust: across 3266 walk-forward games (2013-2024) the model gave a side 55-60% in 797 of them, and those sides won 57%. The Packers at 59% are in that band. A margin that thin is why we would rather wait for a price than call it a lean.
Kalshi's KXNFLGAME-26SEP13GBMIN contract implies 50% for the Vikings against our 40% — a 10.1-point gap. No position on this game.
Full division picture on the NFC North hub.
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