Receipt for one NCAAF pick. Published 26 September 2026, 10:00 UTC. Graded 26 September 2026, 20:00 UTC.
Louisville Cardinals -12.5 confirmed 6 h 6 min before kickoff; graded a loss, 30–27
Spread, Wake Forest Demon Deacons vs Louisville Cardinals, consensus of 1–11 books via The Odds API, 323 price snapshots from 20 September 2026 to 26 September 2026, 8 anchor cells (eu, us)
Source: SharpUnit pick record; event clock and odds from The Odds API; score from The Odds API scores feed.
SharpUnit published Louisville Cardinals -12.5 (-112) at 10:00 UTC on 26 September 2026, 6 h 6 min before kickoff (kickoff 16:07 UTC, 26 September 2026); the pick graded a loss, final 30–27.
Source: SharpUnit pick record; event clock and odds from The Odds API; score from The Odds API scores feed.
What this receipt does not establish
Every field on this receipt was observed. Nothing here is inferred.
Shorthand: [x] not available, [z] not applicable, [w] none recorded, [u] not provable, [p] provisional. Each is computed from the stored rows for this pick, not written by hand.
This receipt describes one pick. It carries no forecast, makes no claim about any other pick, and is not a recommendation.
SharpUnit, sharp-unit.com/artifact/2a61d5b7. Source: SharpUnit pick record; event clock and odds from The Odds API; score from The Odds API scores feed. Graded 26 Sept 2026.
The pick, its price and its close
| Field | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Line at publish | -12.5 | |
| Close | -11.5 | |
| Closing line value | -0.91pp against Pinnacle | |
| Confirmed | 26 September 2026, 10:00 UTC | |
| Scheduled start | 26 September 2026, 16:07 UTC | |
| Lock | Locked before game time, 6 h 6 min before kickoff | Locked before game time — the confirmation timestamp precedes the scheduled start. |
SharpUnit, sharp-unit.com/artifact/2a61d5b7. Source: SharpUnit pick record; The Odds API. Graded 26 Sept 2026.
How the consensus spread moved
Consensus spread moved +1.37 pts · T-72h→close (72h) across 4 capture anchors.
The consensus spread moved 1.37 points, from -12.55 to -11.18 on the home side between 72 hours before kickoff and the close. That magnitude ranks in the 73rd percentile of 2,366 NCAAF T-72h→close moves in this corpus (The Odds API historical endpoint, US-region books, 9–14 responding per season), 2023–2025 seasons. A rank within this corpus, not a cause.
| Anchor | Region | Requested (UTC) | Drift (s) | Books | Home spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T-72h | eu | 23 September 2026, 16:00 UTC | -49 | 16 | -12.50 |
| T-72h | us | 23 September 2026, 16:00 UTC | -49 | 10 | -12.55 |
| T-24h | eu | 25 September 2026, 16:00 UTC | -49 | 15 | -13.46 |
| T-24h | us | 25 September 2026, 16:00 UTC | -49 | 10 | -13.50 |
| T-3h | eu | 26 September 2026, 13:00 UTC | -48 | 16 | -12.50 |
| T-3h | us | 26 September 2026, 13:00 UTC | -48 | 11 | -12.36 |
| close | eu | 26 September 2026, 15:45 UTC | -49 | 16 | -11.42 |
| close | us | 26 September 2026, 15:45 UTC | -49 | 11 | -11.18 |
Drift is the vendor's returned instant minus the requested anchor, in seconds. Generations present: live-anchored-v1.
6 anchored snapshots between first observed and close; net move -2 pp (de-vigged, home side).
See the six-mark de-vigged series for this game
SharpUnit, sharp-unit.com/artifact/2a61d5b7. Source: The Odds API historical endpoint, captured by SharpUnit. Last snapshot 26 Sept 2026.
Where this pick sits
This pick is one of 718 graded picks in the public record (17 Jun – 26 Sept 2026: 416–285–17). See the record.
This pick is part of the public record shown here.
SharpUnit, sharp-unit.com/artifact/2a61d5b7. Source: SharpUnit pick record (pick_stats). As of 26 Sept 2026.
Provenance
Rows read: pick 2a61d5b7-76c8-48df-b667-aa6f52ec021c, market b643d518-e4f6-446b-90f3-ea7f1d51308a, 323 price snapshots (20 Sept 2026 to 26 Sept 2026), 8 anchor cells (live-anchored-v1). Contract v1, generated 26 September 2026, 21:39 UTC. Score source: odds-api:/v4/scores/americanfootball_ncaaf/2026-09-26.
How every field on this page is derived: the method. The compact receipt for this pick: sharp-unit.com/receipt/2a61d5b7. Timestamp checked per pick · graded in public.
SharpUnit, sharp-unit.com/artifact/2a61d5b7. Source: SharpUnit pick record; event clock and odds from The Odds API; score from The Odds API scores feed.