Written before the game and kept as published. Final: New England Patriots 6, Jacksonville Jaguars 35 — the graded call is above.
The better team here is the visitor, and it still is not favored. The Patriots rate +3.0 (4th of 32) against +2.8 for the Jaguars (5th) — but 2.5 points of home field is larger than the 0.2-point gap between them, so the model lands at 51% for the Jaguars anyway. That is the whole story of this line: venue, not talent. It rates as the 6th-closest of the 16 games in Week 3, and a game this tight is decided by the price, not the model.
Season-long, the model can barely split them: 10.5 projected wins for the Jaguars against 10.1 for the Patriots, favored in 12 and 13 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 Jaguars' schedule and 3rd-hardest on the Patriots'.
The sharpest unit gap in the game runs one way: the Patriots offense grades +3.0 (4th of 32) against a Jaguars defense at -0.2 (11th) — 3.3 points of separation on our scale, and the single biggest reason the line sits where it does. Going the other direction, the Jaguars offense (+2.2, 8th) meets the Patriots defense (-0.3, 12th), a 2.5-point gap. Special teams adds to it: the Jaguars grade +0.8, 2nd in the league, against +0.2 (23rd) on the other side — close to a point of hidden margin.
One team has owned this series: the Patriots are 6-2 in 8 regular-season meetings since 2002. They have also met 5 times in the playoffs. They last met in 2024: Jaguars won 32-16 in October. Over their last 4 meetings the Jaguars are 2-2. 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.
Conditions are unlikely to be the story: across 10 Jacksonville home games in September since 2015, the median temperature was 86°F and the median wind 7 mph. That is a neutral-weather profile, which is worth knowing mostly because it removes an excuse from both sides.
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 50-55% in 870 of them, and those sides won 52%. The Jaguars at 51% are in that band. A margin that thin is why we would rather wait for a price than call it a lean.
Kalshi listed this game as KXNFLGAME-26SEP27NEJAC, 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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