Ole Miss at Vanderbilt Best Pick, Prediction and Odds

Our number has Vanderbilt by 8.0 over No. 9 Ole Miss. Vanderbilt is a bet at -5 or shorter, Ole Miss at +11 or more.

No line had been posted for this game as of 28 September. Our number makes unranked Vanderbilt an 8-point favourite at home. A side becomes a bet when our number and the spread are 3 or more points apart, so the call for now is a price on each side, and if Vanderbilt opens as the underdog it is a bet at any plus number.

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.

Vanderbilt is 8-0 at home against FBS teams over that span, winning by 16.4 points a game across 8 games. Ole Miss is 3-2 on the road against FBS teams, winning by 0.4 a game across 5 games. The difference is 16.0 points. Half of it is 8.0.

Both samples clear our 4-game minimum, Ole Miss’s by one game. Ranking plays no part in the number.

Vanderbilt at home

Vanderbilt has won all 10 of its home games in 2025 and 2026, and 8 of them were against FBS teams. In 2025 it beat Georgia State 70-21, Utah State 55-35, LSU 31-24, Missouri 17-10, Auburn 45-38 and Kentucky 45-17. In September 2026 it beat Delaware 35-26 and NC State 35-31.

The average flatters it a little. Georgia State alone adds 49 points, and four of the eight wins were by 7 or fewer. Without the Georgia State game the home average is 11.7 across 7 games, and our number would be Vanderbilt by 5.7.

Ole Miss on the road

Ole Miss’s road sample is small and split. In 2025 it won 30-23 at Kentucky, 34-26 at Oklahoma and 38-19 at Mississippi State, and lost 43-35 at Georgia. On 26 September it lost 52-28 at Florida.

That Florida game is the most recent result in either sample, and it is the one that pulls Ole Miss’s road average down to 0.4. Its three postseason games in 2025 were at home or at neutral sites, so none of them counts here.

2026 so far

Ole Miss is 3-1 and 1-1 in the SEC, with every game against an FBS team. It beat Louisville 41-38 at a neutral site on 6 September, then Charlotte 41-9 and LSU 32-24 at home, before the loss at Florida. It has scored 35.5 points a game and allowed 30.8.

Vanderbilt is 3-1 and 0-1 in the SEC. It beat Austin Peay 28-9, a team outside the FBS, then Delaware and NC State, and lost 21-15 at Auburn on 26 September. Against its three FBS opponents it has scored 28.3 a game and allowed 26.0.

ESPN’s FPI gives Ole Miss a 72.5% chance to win. Our number and FPI disagree on the winner, and that disagreement is the reason this page has a call on both sides.

Last season

Ole Miss went 13-2 in 2025, scoring 36.9 points a game and allowing 21.1. It beat Georgia 39-34 on 1 January and lost 31-27 to Miami on 8 January, both at neutral sites. Vanderbilt went 10-3, scoring 38.5 and allowing 22.8, and ended with a 34-27 loss to Iowa on 31 December. The two did not meet in 2025.

Pick: Vanderbilt -5 or shorter, Ole Miss +11 or more

No line, so no bet yet. Our number is Vanderbilt by 8.0 on 13 games, split 8 and 5.

Vanderbilt becomes a bet at -5 or shorter, where the gap is 3.0, and at every price where it is the underdog. Ole Miss becomes a bet at +11 or longer. Anything from Vanderbilt -5.5 to Vanderbilt -10.5 is a pass.

What changes it

The line, first. If the market follows FPI and makes Ole Miss the favourite, Vanderbilt is the bet.

Then the results. A Vanderbilt home game or an Ole Miss road game against an FBS team before 10 October joins the sample. Ole Miss’s road column is the smaller one, at 5 games. The full page re-reads both the week of the game.

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Ole Miss at Vanderbilt, Saturday 10 October, 3:30 PM ET, FirstBank Stadium, Nashville. No line posted as of 28 September 2026. Results: ESPN, read 28 September 2026. Rankings: AP Poll, Week 5, 2026. Nothing here states who is available.