Grambling vs. Texas Southern Dunkel Predictions & Vegas Odds - Jan. 5

The Grambling Tigers (7-7, 1-0 SWAC) host the Texas Southern Tigers (2-10, 0-1 SWAC) at Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center, beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET on Monday, January 5, 2026. The Texas Southern Tigers are 4.5-point underdogs in the game. The point total for the matchup is 145.5.

Grambling won its most recent outing 76-72 against Prairie View A&M on Saturday. Antonio Munoz put up 15 points, three rebounds and five assists for Grambling. Texas Southern heads into this matchup after an 84-73 loss to Southern on Saturday. Alex Anderson scored 18 points in Texas Southern's loss, leading the team.

Grambling vs. Texas Southern Odds and Game Time

• When: Monday, January 5, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. ET
• Where: Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center in Grambling, Louisiana
• Spread favorite: Grambling -4.5
• Moneyline favorite: Grambling -216
• Moneyline underdog: Texas Southern +177
• Over/Under: 145.5 points

How to watch Grambling vs. Texas Southern

• TV Channel: SWAC TV
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Betting the Over/Under: Grambling vs. Texas Southern

• Grambling and its opponents have combined to outscore Monday's total (145.5 points) seven times this season.
• In Texas Southern's 10 games this season, six finished with more combined points than Monday's point total of 145.5.
• Together, the two teams combine for 144.3 points per game, 1.2 points fewer than the total of 145.5 for this game.
• This matchup's point total is 11.8 fewer points than the 157.3 these two teams combine to give up per game in 2024.
• This season the average over/under for Grambling's games is 144.9 points, 0.6 fewer than the over/under of 145.5 set for this contest.
• Texas Southern's games have an average over/under of 156.8 points this season, 11.3 more points than the over/under for this game.

Betting the Spread: Grambling vs. Texas Southern

• Against the spread, Grambling is 8-4-0 this year.
• This season, the Grambling Tigers are winless against the spread when entering a game as a favorite of 4.5 points or more.
• Texas Southern has one win against the spread in 10 games this year.
• The Texas Southern Tigers have covered the spread once this season when underdogs by 4.5 points or more (in seven chances).
• Grambling is winless ATS (0-1) as a 4.5-point favorite or greater at home.
• Texas Southern has one win against the spread, and are 0-7 overall, on the road.

Betting the Moneyline: Grambling vs. Texas Southern

• Grambling has won both games it has played as a moneyline favorite this season.
• The Grambling Tigers have played as a favorite of -216 or more once this season and won that game.
• Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that Grambling has a 68.4% chance to win.
• Texas Southern has been named as the moneyline underdog nine times this season but has yet to come away with a victory in any of those games.
• The Texas Southern Tigers have yet to win this season when listed as an underdog of +177 or worse on the moneyline this season.
• Texas Southern has an implied victory probability of 36.1% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.

Dunkel Index Prediction for Grambling vs. Texas Southern

• Pick ATS: Grambling (- 4.5)
• Pick OU: Over (145.5)
  
• Prediction: Grambling 81 - Texas Southern 71