College football Week 0 odds: the eight-game FBS Week 0 card was played Saturday, August 29, 2026, and the season is on. The price sheet below is the record of how Kalshi had those games on the morning of August 16, thirteen days before kickoff.
The short version: the five Power Four openers were priced tight after three months of trading. The boards that only listed on August 11 were still wide, and the softest price on the card was Memphis to beat UNLV at 31¢. For this week's lines across every book, use the OddsShopper live odds screen.
How Kalshi Priced All Eight Week 0 Games
Prices are the Kalshi ask on each side of the eight game markets, read the morning of August 16, 2026, with the American-odds equivalent in parentheses where the number reads as a moneyline. Round-trip cost is what yes on both teams cost together, and a frictionless market totals 100¢. Favorite width is the favorite's own bid against its own ask, which is the room you had to work an order inside.
| Game (Sat, Aug 29) | Favorite | Favorite ask | Underdog ask | Round-trip cost | Favorite width | Board listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Jose St. at USC | USC | 99¢ | San Jose St. 3¢ | 102¢ | 1¢ | May 20 |
| New Mexico St. at Florida St. | Florida St. | 98¢ | New Mexico St. 2¢ | 100¢ | 1¢ | May 20 |
| North Carolina vs TCU (Dublin) | TCU | 75¢ (−300) | North Carolina 27¢ (+270) | 102¢ | 1¢ | May 20 |
| NC State at Virginia | Virginia | 66¢ (−194) | NC State 37¢ (+170) | 103¢ | 1¢ | May 20 |
| Hawai'i at Stanford | Stanford | 68¢ (−213) | Hawai'i 36¢ (+178) | 104¢ | 3¢ | May 20 |
| Memphis at UNLV | UNLV | 70¢ (−233) | Memphis 31¢ (+223) | 101¢ | 4¢ | Aug 11 |
| Sacramento St. at Eastern Michigan | Eastern Michigan | 77¢ (−335) | Sacramento St. 30¢ (+233) | 107¢ | 7¢ | Aug 11 |
| Jacksonville St. at North Dakota St. | North Dakota St. | 73¢ (−270) | Jacksonville St. 41¢ (+144) | 114¢ | 5¢ | Aug 11 |
The last row is the one that jumped. Jacksonville St. at North Dakota St. asked 114¢ for both sides, a fourteen-cent hole before you had been right about anything. New Mexico St. at Florida St. summed to a flat 100¢. Those two prices did not come out of the same market. They came out of two markets that happened to share a Saturday.
Every quote had a bid behind it at that read, so all 16 sides were live markets rather than displayed ones. At 98 and 99 cents the two Power Four blowouts offered a bettor almost nothing, and they were also where the money went. At the August 16 read the USC market showed on the order of 400,000 contracts traded. Memphis at UNLV showed a few thousand.
Why Three Boards Opened 83 Days Late
Sort the eight games by listing date and the pattern is not subtle. Every game listed on May 20 contained a Power Four program: USC, Florida St., TCU and North Carolina, Virginia and NC State, Stanford. Every game listed on August 11 did not: Memphis and UNLV, Sacramento St. and Eastern Michigan, Jacksonville St. and North Dakota St. Two of those were FBS debuts, for Sacramento St. and North Dakota St.
That is the college football information gap drawn in a straight line. With sixty-plus games a week and well over a hundred FBS programs, nobody prices all of it, and the numbers stay softest exactly where the attention isn't. The exchange put a timestamp on it. The non-Power-Four openers were not priced worse, they were not priced at all until 83 days after the others.
The width column is five days of trading against three months of it. Memphis at UNLV had the tightest round trip of the August boards at 101¢, yet UNLV's own quote was still four cents wide. That is what a young market looks like from the inside: both asks snug against each other, one side's bid nowhere near them.
The practical versionon a one-cent board you either like the number or you don't. On a four-to-seven-cent board there is room inside the quote to improve your entry before you have handicapped anything.
The Week 0 Price Worth Remembering: Memphis At 31¢
Not because of a roster secret. Because the two sides of that board did not agree with each other.
Memphis's contract was quoted a cent wide, UNLV's four cents wide. Buying Memphis at its 31¢ ask implied UNLV near 69¢.
UNLV's own best bid sat at 66¢, three cents below that. On a board that had existed for five days, that was friction rather than an arbitrage, and friction that size does not survive once people are watching.
The practical instruction was to buy Memphis directly at 31 rather than selling UNLV at its bid, because the synthetic route cost 34 for the identical position, and to rest a bid inside UNLV's quote rather than crossing it. Three months of two-way flow had crushed the same kind of game to a single cent on the Power Four boards. Part of that difference is attention. The rest is the liquidity penalty that always shows up first on the lower-profile boards. None of it depended on Memphis winning.
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What Week 0 Said About The Rest Of The Season
Eight games settled nothing on their own. What Week 0 handed you was a timestamped map of where this market pays attention: brand names in May, everyone else in August.
That map does not expire. The same listing gap that left Memphis's two sides arguing with each other is what leaves a Tuesday MAC game in October soft and conference futures mispriced into November. We track the exchange side of that all season on our Kalshi college football picks board, which rebuilds weekly, and the season-long version sits in our 2026 College Football Playoff odds breakdown.
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