Vanderbilt at Auburn: the market likes Auburn

Five reasons to watch this one

1. The money is on Auburn. Kalshi had Auburn at 77¢ and Vanderbilt at 25¢, read Thu, Sep 24, 2026, 12:45 PM PT.¹ That is the crowd, not a projection of ours, and the crowd is wrong often enough to be worth checking.
2. Jared Curtis, QB for Vanderbilt. 41 completions, 65 attempts, 63.1 completion %, 547 passing yards, 8.4 yards per attempt, 4 passing TD, 2 interceptions, 43 long pass, 147.8 passer rating, 23 rush attempts, 87 rush yards, 2 rush TD in 2026.³ 547 passing yards on 41-of-65 (63.1%) with 4 TDs and 2 interceptions, a 147.8 rating and a long of 43, plus 87 rushing yards on 23 carries with 2 more TDs on the ground.
3. Byrum Brown, QB for Auburn. 64 completions, 99 attempts, 64.6 completion %, 756 passing yards, 7.6 yards per attempt, 5 passing TD, 4 interceptions, 48 long pass, 137.1 passer rating, 52 rush attempts, 180 rush yards, 2 rush TD in 2026.³ 756 passing yards on 64-of-99 (64.6%) with 5 TDs and 4 interceptions, a 137.1 rating and a long of 48, plus 180 rushing yards on 52 carries with 2 more TDs on the ground.
4. How much has actually traded. About 24,210 contracts across the two sides at our read.¹ You pay the ask to buy and take the bid to sell, so a round trip costs more than one column of that table suggests.
5. Where it is played. Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, AL.¹ Home field is already inside the price above; it is not a second thing to add on top.

Prices read Thu, Sep 24, 2026, 12:45 PM PT. We stamp every number with the minute we read it and we do not round in our own favour. Nothing in this list is a pick.

Tale of the tape

A leader row is the highest of the numbers already printed in the cards on this page, with the player who holds it, not a team total we computed. Where a row is marked Worse, that is this page comparing two numbers it has, never a view on who wins. A row exists only where both sides had the same stat; the rest are left out rather than shown against a blank. Left out on purpose: interceptions. A leader row takes the biggest number on each side, and for those the biggest number is not the better player.³

Who to watch

Every figure in these cards is a 2026 season total or average from ESPN’s own per-player feed.³ Nothing here is a projection for this game, and no line was rounded, combined or filled in: a player whose 2026 stats did not come back is not on this page at all.

What the market says

The two sides priced at 25¢ and 77¢ when we read the board. Auburn is the shorter price, and on this slate that is what the money thinks rather than what anybody has projected.

Kalshi market data, read Thu, Sep 24, 2026, 12:45 PM PT.¹ These are the prices at that minute and this page does not refresh them. You pay the ask to buy and take the bid to sell, so a round trip costs more than one column suggests. PM Countdown is not affiliated with or endorsed by Kalshi.

Reading the price

A contract settles at $1.00 if the side wins and at nothing if it does not, so the price is the crowd’s probability with the spread on top. VAN at 25¢ is the market saying roughly 25%, and it is wrong often enough to be worth checking.

If the desk posts a call on this game it goes up with the buy price, the sell target and what happens if the target never fills, and it is graded on Kalshi’s own trade history with both fee legs counted, win or lose. A miss stays on the record next to the wins.

Every college football game on this slate, and every call the desk has graded, wins and misses, with both fee legs counted.

What this page does not know

• Kick-off time is not posted on ESPN at our read; the Sep 26 scoreboard returns a placeholder 04:00Z for every event.
• Both teams' records are omitted. The record endpoint returned '3-0, 6th in SEC' for Vanderbilt and '2-1, 12th in SEC' for Auburn -- the Auburn figure is identical to Texas A&M, LSU and South Carolina's reads in the same session, and the Vanderbilt figure duplicates Missouri's read too, so neither is trusted.
• No injury report is published for this game at our read.
• This file replaces an earlier version that used the roster endpoint to pick a third receiver for each team (Brycen Coleman for Vanderbilt, Arlis Boardingham for Auburn) instead of each team's actual leaders-ranked top receiver; Junior Sherrill and Keshaun Singleton replace them here with the correct, verified 2026 receiving leaders.
• A record is not shown for both sides, so the tape table has no record row.

This list is part of the page, not an apology for it. Where a number was not in a source we read, it is absent here rather than estimated, and it stays absent until a dated read puts it back.