Written before the game and kept as published. Final: Baltimore Ravens 34, Dallas Cowboys 31 — 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 the line is pure ratings: -0.6 for the Cowboys against +1.2 for the Ravens, giving the Ravens by 0.5 and 52% to win. The Cowboys are the designated home team on paper only. Take home field out and the ratings gap is all that is left — which is why this number is a full 2.5 points different from what the same matchup would price at in Dallas.
The sharpest unit gap in the game runs one way: the Ravens offense grades +2.0 (10th of 32) against a Cowboys defense at -4.6 (32nd) — 6.6 points of separation on our scale, and the single biggest reason the line sits where it does. Going the other direction, the Cowboys offense (+3.5, 3rd) meets the Ravens defense (-1.1, 17th), a 4.7-point gap.
Zoom out to the full season and the model projects the Cowboys at 8.0 wins (favored in 6 of 17) and the Ravens at 9.2 (favored in 10) — 1.2 wins apart across the year. By win probability this is the 6th-hardest game on the Cowboys' schedule and the 11th-hardest on the Ravens'.
One team has owned this series: the Ravens are 5-1 in 6 regular-season meetings since 2002. They last met in 2024: Ravens won 28-25 in September. Over their last 4 meetings the Cowboys 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.
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 Ravens at 52% 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-26SEP27BALDAL, 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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