The week's top bull scores on U.S. circuits — where the world title is decided.

Who's bucking best over the last 45 days on U.S. circuits — average bull score, three-out minimum.

The full Hot List →

Ransom is the 2026 PBR World Champion Bull.

The 2026 Unleash The Beast season ran Dec 12, 2025 – May 17, 2026. The 2027 season opens Dec 11, 2026 — 10 weeks away.

Final 2026 top 5

The 2026 title season →

The Teams season opened Jul 11, 2026. 4 events left — the season wraps Nov 6, 2026, 5 weeks from now.

Teams bull race: King Tut 45.90 · Fire Zone 45.77 · Freight Train 45.65 (best-8 average). Full Teams standings →

The 2026 Teams season so far →

The Draw Report

This week the Florida Freedom drew the rankest bulls — they had bucked off 73.5% of riders before the game — and covered 1 of 12. All season, the Texas Rattlers have faced the toughest draw (72.2%) and stand 14-10 in decided games. Every team's draw →

Every week we grade the Matchup Projector against real outs, using only what the record held the day before each one.

Fire Zone vs Josh Frost: we projected a 44.60 bull score and a 91% buckoff likelihood. Result: buckoff, marked 47.40, 2.80 points above our projection.

This week we graded 127 outs. Our call was right on 90 (71%); always picking the bull, 78 (61%). 65% of bull scores landed within a point of our projection.

Beat the numbers: Jean Carlos Teodoro covered Corriente for 88.10, a bull we gave a 99% buckoff likelihood.

2026 season: 68% of calls right against 64% for always the bull, over 2,773 graded outs.

The full scorecard →

Marks reached this week on U.S. circuits.

Fire Zone — First 47-point out (47.40)
Oct 4 · Fort Worth, TX

King Tut — First 47-point out (47.20)
Oct 4 · Fort Worth, TX

Mystified — Bucked off his 20th straight rider
Oct 4 · Fort Worth, TX

Fire Fight — Bucked off his 20th straight rider
Oct 2 · Fort Worth, TX

Charro — Bucked off his 10th straight rider
Oct 4 · Fort Worth, TX

Fire Zone — Bucked off his 10th straight rider
Oct 4 · Fort Worth, TX

The program whose bulls posted the best average bull score on U.S. circuits, Sep 28 – Oct 4 (four-out minimum).

Rafter G Rodeo

9 outs, 8 buckoffs, a 44.04 average bull score. Best out: Sinner, 45.40 in Muskogee, OK.

Also strong: TNT Bucking Bulls / Hart Cattle Co (44.01) · Farris Cattle / Big Schott Rodeo (43.56)

Every Program of the Week →

Young bulls trending toward elite on U.S. circuits — first recorded out inside 14 months, already averaging big scores over a small sample.

The full watch list →

Fresh from the editorial desk — what the data is telling us, on the record and dated.

The Programs Behind the Gold

Map all 32 world championships to the partnerships behind them and the sport's real dynasties emerge: names that keep showing up behind different bulls, decade after decade — Teague behind 7 titles, Berger 7, D&H from 2015 to the reigning champion.

The Stopwatch: How Fast Bulls Win

Half of all premier-series buckoffs are over inside 3.78 seconds, and the fast ones are marked higher. What 21,822 timed buckoffs say about speed.

The Champions: Ransom

A premier-series debut in December 2025 and a world title five months later. The reigning champion's 47.85 at Billings was the highest mark of the 2026 season.

All Insights →

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