Rice at Wortham

# Rice at Wortham, 2026 Rice heads to Wortham in a non-district matchup that our model sees as essentially a coin flip, giving the visitors a razor-thin one-point edge with the home team sitting right at 49 percent to pull the upset. This is the kind of toss-up that separates the model believers from the fade-it crowd, so fans will have to decide whether to trust the algorithm's near-perfect equilibrium or back their gut on Wortham's home-field advantage. The margin is so tight that a single possession could flip the entire prediction, making this a true pick-'em that could go either way come Friday night.

• AI prediction: Rice by 1 · Toss-up
• Win probability: Wortham 49%, Rice 51%
• Rice is the model's favorite; Wortham is the underdog
• Non-district game: an early-season measuring stick