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NFL Week 9 · 2026

One-score games · decided by 8 points or fewer

The Packers in one-score games

The Packers are 3–1 in one-score games in 2026 so far, after 4–5–1 in 2025. Replayed with the same day’s form, they win 1.9 of those 4. Since 2019: 40–27–1 in 68 one-score games, 41.1 wins in replays.

A good record in close games looks like clutch. It rarely lasts: from 2019 to 2025, a team’s win rate in one-score games carried into the next season at a correlation of 0.12, against 0.39 for its overall record. How often a team wins those games in replays says what its play was worth.

Close-game luck by season

One-score wins minus how many of those games the Packers win in replays (regular season).

SeasonOne-score recordReplay wins in those gamesClose-game luckOverall record
20263–11.9 of 4 +1.16–3
20254–5–17.1 of 10 −2.69–7–1
20245–56.8 of 10 −1.811–6
20236–56.0 of 11 0.09–8
20224–54.6 of 9 −0.68–9
20216–34.9 of 9 +1.113–4
20204–24.2 of 6 −0.213–3
20198–15.5 of 9 +2.513–3

2026 one-score games

WeekGameResultWins the replayLuck index
Week 2 @ Jets W 20–17 36% +64
Week 4 @ Buccaneers W 17–14 90% +10
Week 7 @ Lions L 17–20 11% −11
Week 8 vs Panthers W 27–19 54% +46

Every team’s one-score record, 2026 · Green Bay Packers, every season