Temple Owls Football

Temple opens the 2026 season against Rhode Island on Saturday, Sep 5 at Lincoln Financial Field.

The Read

Temple opens a 14.5-point favorite. Our model gives Temple a 81% chance.

WIN PROBABILITY

TEM 81% URI 19%

PROJECTED FINAL

Temple

33

Rhode Island

19

TEM win
81% One-score game
28%

What's driving the model

Home-field edge TEM

Market lean TEM

Model projection TEM

Each game samples a margin around the market spread and a final total around the market total.

Sim the game Rhode Island @ Temple

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Rhode Island @ Temple

Sat, Sep 5 · 2:00 PM EDT

CFB VIBES MODELTEM 81% to win

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Penn State @ Temple

Sat, Sep 12 · 12:00 PM EDT

CFB VIBES MODELPSU 90% to win

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Temple @ Toledo

Sat, Sep 19 · 3:00 PM EDT

CFB VIBES MODELTOL 60% to win

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Army @ Temple

Fri, Sep 25 · 4:00 PM EDT

CFB VIBES MODELARMY 57% to win

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Standings

Full standings →

Place	TEAM	CONF	OVERALL
8	RICERiceRICE	0–0	0–0
9	USFSouth FloridaUSF	0–0	0–0
10	TEMTempleTEM	0–0	0–0
11	TULNTulaneTULN	0–0	0–0
12	TLSATulsaTLSA	0–0	0–0

Rankings

All rankings →

Rank	AP TOP 25
1	OSUOhio StateOSU
2	OREOregonORE
3	UGAGeorgiaUGA
4	NDNotre DameND
–	TEMTempleTEM

Rank	COACHES
1	OSUOhio StateOSU
2	OREOregonORE
3	UGAGeorgiaUGA
4	TEXTexasTEX
–	TEMTempleTEM