Coastal Carolina at Delaware
Coastal Carolina (1‑1) at Delaware (1‑1) — Delaware is favored by 5. The model gives Delaware a 92% shot.
How they got here
Last two games
Coastal Carolina · 1-1
Picked #231 in the preseason · now #190 — better than expected.
1-1 in its last two — but nothing on this résumé beats a top-40 team yet.
W 45–7 vs Fordham #255 of 669
won by 38 as a 36.5-point favorite
L 24–31 @ West Virginia #190 of 669
lost by 7 as a 21-point underdog
Last two games
Delaware · 1-1
Picked #41 in the preseason · now #40 — about right.
1-1 in its last two — but nothing on this résumé beats a top-40 team yet.
L 26–35 @ Vanderbilt #44 of 669
lost by 9 as a 20.5-point underdog
W 42–7 vs Merrimack #216 of 669
won by 35 as a 31.5-point favorite
What’s at stake
Coastal Carolina
- Coastal Carolina is coming off a 38-point win.
Delaware
- Delaware won six national titles across its history, perfected the Wing-T offense under Tubby Raymond, produced NFL MVP Rich Gannon and Super Bowl XLVII MVP Joe Flacco -- and in its first-ever FBS season, 2025, won the 68 Ventures Bowl 20-13 over Louisiana, becoming only the second program ever (after Jacksonville State) to win a bowl game in its FBS debut year.
Face-off
What each fanbase carries into this one.
Coastal Carolina
The chip · vs the blue bloodsChanticleer fans heard the whole sport ask 'where is that?' during the 2020 run — and they say the same people who couldn't find Conway on a map were the ones most eager to call the whole thing an accident the moment it ended.
What this game touches
The Beck era ends in a losing season. Coastal went 6-7 in 2025 — a season that ended with three straight blowout losses (51-7 at South Carolina, 59-10 to James Madison) and an Independence Bowl defeat — and Tim Beck was fired before it was even over, closing a 20-18 run that never recaptured the heights of 2020.
Delaware
The chip · vs the national mediaDelaware arrived in the FBS with more championship history than most of the programs it now plays, and outsiders still talk about FCS-to-FBS jumps as programs proving themselves from scratch. The 68 Ventures Bowl win, in year one, against a bid nobody guaranteed them, was the fanbase's answer.
What this game touches
The 2007 national championship game loss to Appalachian State. Joe Flacco's Delaware team reached the FCS national championship game in 2007 and lost 49-21 to Appalachian State -- the program's clearest recent shot at a seventh national title, and the closest the Flacco era came to matching the Tubby Raymond-era championship standard.
Best players
Coastal Carolina
- Marcellius Pulliam (LB) · 18 tackles
- Jordan Thompson (LB) · 16 tackles
- Deuce Bailey (QB) · 576 passing yards
Delaware
- Ja'Carree Kelly (WR) · 211 receiving yards
- Da'Wain Lofton (WR) · 206 receiving yards
- Gavin Moul (LB) · 16 tackles
The line, and the room
Delaware fans are feeling it more than most fanbases this week (78th percentile) — the mood matches the numbers.
- Model · 92%
- Market · 66%
- Delaware fans · 78th
- Coastal Carolina fans · 85th
Home −5 · O/U 57.5
Conditions
80°F · 4 mph wind
Delaware is worth +8.8 points (±8.1) more at home than on the road since 2018 — top tenth of FBS, 98th percentile.
57% at home, 17% on the road against FBS opponents (4–3 home, 2–10 away).
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge (why); the books use about 3. Against the closing line this stadium reads -0.2 at home vs. away over 49 games — inside the ±9.5 noise, so the flat number is the honest one here.
The visitors travel about 444 miles to get here.
Recent games
Delaware
- Wk 1Wvs Merrimack42-7
- Wk 2Lat Vanderbilt26-35
Coastal Carolina
- Wk 1Lat West Virginia24-31
- Wk 2Wvs Fordham45-7
Trajectory
The market
Book hold: 4.1%