Written before the game and kept as published. Final: Los Angeles Rams 35, Las Vegas Raiders 21 — the graded call is above.
The Rams travel to face the Raiders in Week 7. Our power ratings put the Raiders 29th of 32 at -4.2 (Below Avg tier) and the Rams 3rd at +3.0 (Playoff tier) — a 7.2-point gap that home field narrows to a 2.5-point line on the Rams, 57% to win. It rates as the 3rd-widest of the 14 games in Week 7.
The sharpest unit gap in the game runs one way: the Rams offense grades +2.9 (5th of 32) against a Raiders defense at -3.1 (29th) — 5.9 points of separation on our scale, and the single biggest reason the line sits where it does. Going the other direction, the Raiders offense (-1.3, 27th) meets the Rams defense (+0.3, 6th), a 1.5-point gap.
Zoom out to the full season and the model projects the Raiders at 6.9 wins (favored in 3 of 17) and the Rams at 8.8 (favored in 13) — 1.9 wins apart across the year. By win probability this is the 7th-hardest game on the Raiders' schedule and the 11th-hardest on the Rams'.
One team has owned this series: the Rams are 6-1 in 7 regular-season meetings since 2002. They last met in 2024: Rams won 20-15 in October. Over their last 4 meetings the Raiders are 0-4. 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.
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 Rams at 57% 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-26OCT25LARLV, 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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