NCAAF › Week 7 › Florida State at Miami
AWAY · 3-2
20
12% to win
Beaver projection
Sat, Oct 17, 7:00 PM ET
Hard Rock Stadium · 82° · wind 10 mph
HOME · 5-0 · No. 4
39
88% to win

Beaver vs. Vegas

★ BEAVERVEGAS
Score (Florida State–Miami)20–39–
SpreadMiami −18.9Miami −16.5
Total59.653.5
Miami win chance88%–

The call

Beaver’s Pick
★ Miami −16.5 ★ Over 53.5
Spread: 2.4 pts better than Vegas for Miami (sides with a gap this size have won 51% in the backtest). Total: 6.1 pts above Vegas (52% historically).

How Beaver sees the margin

Range of likely outcomes around Miami by 18.9
2%
Florida State by 14+
10%
Florida State by 1–13
26%
Miami by 1–13
62%
Miami by 14+

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Tale of the tape

ranks among 138 FBS teams entering this game · brighter = better of the two
Florida State
Opponent-adjusted, vs. average FBS team
Miami
Efficiency
+0.138 #18Offense EPA / play+0.300 #1
+0.109 #96Defense EPA / play allowed−0.106 #11
+3.0% #32Offense success rate+11.6% #3
+1.7% #69Defense success rate allowed−2.6% #24
+0.196 #4Rushing EPA / play+0.121 #15
+0.118 #32Passing EPA / play+0.441 #1
+0.042 #65Rush defense EPA allowed−0.133 #16
+0.114 #91Pass defense EPA allowed−0.117 #21
+3.6 #41Scoring offense (pts vs avg)+15.4 #4
−2.6 #37Scoring defense (pts vs avg)−9.9 #6
Situational
+7.4% #9Passing-down success (3rd & long)+7.2% #10
−0.5% #50Passing-down success allowed−2.6% #28
+0.46 #38Points per drive+2.83 #3
+0.02 #40Points per drive allowed−0.46 #15
Trenches
+0.37 #7Line yards per rush+0.45 #5
+0.21 #85Line yards per rush allowed−0.38 #14
−4.1% #8Runs stuffed at the line−5.2% #5
−2.2% #90Opponent runs stuffed+3.7% #17
−0.5% #54Havoc allowed (TFL, sacks, PBU)−5.4% #1
+0.3% #51Havoc created+1.0% #41
Big plays
+0.188 #5Rushing explosiveness−0.047 #91
+0.283 #5Passing explosiveness−0.006 #79
+0.36 #20Open-field yards per rush+0.11 #38
−0.050 #63Pass explosiveness allowed−0.177 #16
Style and schedule
59% #15Run rate50% #93
−3.0 #31Strength of schedule (avg opponent)−13.4 #104

Tendencies

season to date · against the spread and over/under use closing lines
Florida StateSeason to dateMiami
3-2Record5-0
1-1Conference3-0
3-1Home2-0
0-1Away3-0
2-2-1Against the spread4-1
1-4Over/under4-1
33.2 / 21.6Points for / against49.6 / 9.8
+11.6Avg margin+39.8
+1.0Avg vs. the spread+7.8
59.0Plays per game (excl. garbage time)48.8

Florida State: last 5 games

W38-7covered
W34-7didn’t cover
L36-50covered
L24-27
vsSMU
push
W34-17didn’t cover

Miami: last 5 games

W41-13covered
W52-3covered
W33-20didn’t cover
W77-7covered
W45-6covered

Rating trend

net EPA per play vs. an average team, entering each week
−0.09+0.04+0.17+0.31+0.44Entering week1234567Florida State · 1: +0.11Florida State · 2: −0.06Florida State · 3: −0.02Florida State · 4: +0.01Florida State · 5: −0.04Florida State · 6: +0.03Florida State · 7: +0.03Miami · 1: +0.28Miami · 2: +0.32Miami · 3: +0.37Miami · 4: +0.36Miami · 5: +0.38Miami · 6: +0.41Miami · 7: +0.41
● Florida State● Miami