Our number has Wyoming by 3.9. At +3, take Wyoming.
Hawai’i opened as a 5.5-point favourite at Wyoming on DraftKings and is 3 now. Our number has the home team winning, by 3.9. The gap is 6.9 points, and the threshold for a bet here is 3.
How the number is built
The method is one clause: our number is half the difference between the home team’s average margin at home and the visitor’s average margin on the road, against FBS teams only, 2025 and 2026 together.
Wyoming is 2-3 at home against FBS teams over that span, losing by 2.0 points a game across 5 games. Hawai’i is 2-4 on the road against FBS teams, losing by 9.7 a game across 6 games. The difference is 7.7 points. Half of it, rounded, is 3.9, in Wyoming’s favour.
Five and six games is thin. All five of Wyoming’s are from 2025, because it has not hosted an FBS team this season. One of Hawai’i’s six is from 2026: the 37-27 loss at Stanford on 29 August.
Hawai’i on the road
Hawai’i’s road results carry most of the number. In 2025 it lost 40-6 at Arizona, 45-38 at San José State and 38-10 at UNLV. It won 44-35 at Air Force and 31-19 at Colorado State.
Wyoming’s home games were closer. It lost 31-6 to Utah, 31-17 to UNLV and 13-7 to Nevada, and beat San José State 35-28 and Colorado State 28-0. A home side losing by 2.0 against a visitor losing by 9.7 on the road is a home side that should be favoured.
The market has Wyoming as a 3-point underdog. That is the whole disagreement.
2026 so far
Hawai’i is 1-2, and all three games were against FBS teams. After the loss at Stanford it lost 21-6 at home to UNLV, then beat New Mexico State 29-19 on 12 September. It has scored 20.7 a game and allowed 25.7.
Wyoming is 1-2. It lost 35-13 at Colorado State on 5 September, beat Northern Colorado, a team outside the FBS, 21-13, and lost 24-10 at Central Michigan on 19 September. Against its two FBS opponents it has scored 11.5 a game and allowed 29.5.
This is a Mountain West game. Hawai’i is 0-1 in the conference; Wyoming is 0-0.
Last season
Hawai’i went 9-4 in 2025 and won by 4.9 points a game. It finished with a 35-31 win over California at a neutral site on 24 December. Wyoming went 4-8 and lost by 4.5 a game.
The two met on 30 November 2025 at Hawai’i. Hawai’i won 27-7. That game was at the other end of the trip, and it is not in either sample.
The price
Hawai’i opened at -5.5 and is -3 now, read 24 September 2026 at 04:29 UTC at DraftKings via ESPN. That is a 2.5-point move toward Wyoming. Wyoming +3 is priced at -108, Hawai’i -3 at -112.
The moneyline has Hawai’i at -155 and Wyoming at +130, from -205 and +170 at the open. With the margin removed, that prices Hawai’i to win 58.3% of the time. ESPN’s FPI has Hawai’i at 69.9%.
Both of those make Hawai’i the likelier winner. Ours makes Wyoming the likelier winner, and the market has moved 2.5 points toward that view since the open.
Pick: Wyoming +3
Wyoming +3 at -108. The gap is 6.9 points against a 3-point threshold.
It rests on 11 games, split 5 and 6, and 10 of them are from 2025. Wyoming’s 2026 form, 11.5 points a game against FBS teams, is not in the number, because both of those games were on the road.
What changes it
A line move toward Wyoming. At Wyoming -0.5 the gap is 3.4 and the bet stands. At Wyoming -1 it is 2.9, and the call becomes a pass.
Availability is the other thing, and this page does not state it. Check the injury report before you bet.
The total
The total opened at 44.5 and is 44.5 now, over and under both -110, as read at DraftKings.
Against FBS teams across 2025 and 2026, Hawai’i’s games went over 44.5 in 10 of 15, and Wyoming’s in 5 of 13. The two samples pull in opposite directions. Wyoming’s two FBS games this season produced 48 and 34 points; Hawai’i’s three produced 64, 27 and 48.
Pass on the total at 44.5. The two samples cancel out.
Hawai’i at Wyoming, Saturday 26 September, 3:00 PM ET, War Memorial Stadium, Laramie. Prices: DraftKings via ESPN, read 24 September 2026, 04:29 UTC. Results: ESPN, read 23-24 September 2026. Neither team is ranked in the AP Poll, Week 4, 2026. Nothing here states who is available.








