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Index · this season
59
▼ Below its 5-year level -6
Career62since 1936
Peak991945
Last 565seasons
#90 nationally · 3-2 (2-1 conf)
Résumé #84
Schedule so far #113
Margin ±5 pts (tightens with games)
Why 59? →

Army Black Knights

American Athletic · West Point, NY · Michie Stadium · Head coach Jeff Monken
Rival
Navy · also Air Force
Heated rivalry
55-63-7 all time (125 meetings since 1891)
Navy leads
Last: lost 17-16 (2025) · Navy has won 2 straight
Wants it back
3 Heisman winnersHeisman House
Recognized national titles: 1945, 1944. Counted: AP poll champion, a coaches-poll champion, or the BCS / playoff title-game winner; a split year counts for both. The school claims 5.2national titles
Heisman Trophy winners3Heisman
Seasons finishing in the AP top 10 since 19368AP top-10
Consensus All-Americans since 193616All-Americans
NFL draft picks since 19672NFL picks
Winning percentage since 193651.8%win pct
History since 1936 · football since 1891. Every season →
Chemistry
Chem 69: typical69
Chem 72: strong
72Foundation
Chem 66: typical
66Gel
gel counts 40% so far
▲ Above its norm +6
early · #15 of 138
HC year13
Ret. starters50%
QB yrs w/ OC2
View chemistry →
Team chemistryearly · #15 of 138 FBS teams
Chem 72: strongFoundation72+Chem 66: typicalGel66=Chem 69: typicalChem69Gel counts 40% so far (it grows as games are played, up to half)
Foundationwhat the program has built · moves over seasons
Foundation72Staff stability — Coach and coordinator tenure, staff who came along, assistant turnoverStaff stability74Roster continuity — Returning starters and the lineup's experienceRoster continuity76Unit cohesion — QB & coordinator, QB & receivers, offensive line, defense: how long each unit has played togetherUnit cohesion87Administration — Athletic director continuity and coach-AD alignmentAdministration49Investment — Commitment to football: its share of the department's spending and whether that is growing, plus spending and recruitingInvestmentsoonFan base — How passionate and loyal the fan base is: how often it sells out, and whether it sells out games that don't matterFan base62
ContinuityClimate
Continuity · who has played and coached togetherlive

Who has played and coached together, and for how long, ranked against every FBS team at the same point of the season.

▸Staff stability
Coach and coordinator tenure, staff who came along, assistant turnover
74
Staff cohesion89
HC year 13 · OC year 3 · DC year 1
Assistant turnover59
44% of on-field staff new this season (FBS average about 45%)
▸Roster continuity
Returning starters and the lineup's experience
76
Returning core80
50% of last season's starters · FBS median 32%
Experience71
13 career starts per starter · FBS median 12
▸Unit cohesion
QB & coordinator, QB & receivers, offensive line, defense: how long each unit has played together
87
QB & coordinator80
2 seasons together · same as 20% of FBS teams
QB & receivers99
14.0 games started together on average · FBS median 3.9
Line cohesion96
13.6 games per linemen pair · FBS median 5.2
Defensive cohesion69
5.0 games per defensive pair · FBS median 4.5
Climate · around the programlive

The administration, money and fans around the team: athletic director continuity, willingness to invest, and crowds.

▸Administration
Athletic director continuity and coach-AD alignment
49
AD continuity49
Tom Theodorakis · year 2 (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
▸Investment
Commitment to football: its share of the department's spending and whether that is growing, plus spending and recruiting
soon
Football's share—
Investment trend—
Football investment—
Recruiting spend—
Department resources—
▸Fan base
How passionate and loyal the fan base is: how often it sells out, and whether it sells out games that don't matter
62
Sellouts63
sellout crowds (95%+ of capacity) at 6 of 38 home games (last 8 seasons)
Sells out anyway62
sellout crowds at 3 of 25 games that didn't matter: cupcakes, or a team expected to lose or having a losing season

Finances: U.S. Department of Education athletics disclosures, as reported by each school. Athletic directors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Attendance: reported crowds vs stadium capacity.

Gelhow it is working right now · moves week to week
Gel66Playing above its parts — Results vs what its preseason projection expected, game by gamePlaying above its parts62Settled & sharp — A settled starting lineup and clean execution (penalties, turnovers) vs its own normalSettled & sharp75Alignment — Coaches and players telling the same story; the staff on one pageAlignmentsoonResilience — Confidence, and how the team sounds after adversityResiliencesoonFan & media mood — Expectations met or missed this season (preseason rank vs now), stronger for fan bases that react hard; fan and media sentiment joins laterFan & media mood59Coach security — The hard-facts hot seat, inverted: results vs expectation, recent seasons vs the program's norm, stakes, a new ADCoach security59
InternalOn-field fitExternal
Internal · how the program talkscoming

How the team talks in press conferences and interviews, each program against its own normal, so a naturally terse coach isn't read as upset. Being built program by program, Big Ten first.

▸Alignment
Coaches and players telling the same story; the staff on one page
soon
Coming: measured from press conferences and interviews.
▸Resilience
Confidence, and how the team sounds after adversity
soon
Coming: measured from press conferences and interviews.

Readings are team-level; we don't publish psychological readings of individual players.

On-field fit · how it is playing togetherlive

How the team is playing together this season: beating or missing its preseason expectation, a settled lineup, clean execution.

▸Playing above its parts
Results vs what its preseason projection expected, game by game
62
This season62
0 points a game vs its preseason projection (4 games)
▸Settled & sharp
A settled starting lineup and clean execution (penalties, turnovers) vs its own normal
75
This season75
92% of starters kept game to game
External · pressure from outsidelive

Pressure from outside the building: the hard-facts hot seat now; this season's fan and media mood as it is measured.

▸Fan & media mood
Expectations met or missed this season (preseason rank vs now), stronger for fan bases that react hard; fan and media sentiment joins later
59
This season59
outside the AP poll: projected #86 preseason -> #90 in our Index now · results 3-2 (+3, recent games count more)
▸Coach security
The hard-facts hot seat, inverted: results vs expectation, recent seasons vs the program's norm, stakes, a new AD
59
This season59
Jeff Monken, year 13 · 60% wins so far · -0.0 pts a game vs preseason expectation · last two seasons +14% vs the program's norm

Dashed gold ring = typical (62). 20-50 is the warning zone; under 10 is a collapse. Spokes with no data yet are dashed and left out until they fill in. Chem blends the two halves, then places the blend among this season's teams.

Trend · Foundationeach program year runs Feb 1 to the title game
'1670'1776'1866'1953'2047'2159'2267'2365'2465'2567'262016 wk 1 vs Temple: 73 · W2016 wk 2 vs Rice: 85 · W2016 wk 3 vs UTEP: 72 · W2016 wk 4 vs Buffalo: 74 · L2016 wk 6 vs Duke: 71 · L2016 wk 7 vs Lafayette: 75 · W2016 wk 8 vs North Texas: 72 · L2016 wk 9 vs Wake Forest: 75 · W2016 wk 10 vs Air Force: 70 · L2016 wk 11 vs Notre Dame: 70 · L2016 wk 12 vs Morgan State: 66 · W2016 wk 15 vs Navy: 72 · W2016 wk 1 vs North Texas: 70 · W2017 wk 2 vs Buffalo: 75 · W2017 wk 3 vs Ohio State: 76 · L2017 wk 4 vs Tulane: 78 · L2017 wk 5 vs UTEP: 78 · W2017 wk 6 vs Rice: 78 · W2017 wk 7 vs Eastern Michigan: 78 · W2017 wk 8 vs Temple: 77 · W2017 wk 10 vs Air Force: 76 · W2017 wk 11 vs Duke: 74 · W2017 wk 12 vs North Texas: 76 · L2017 wk 15 vs Navy: 77 · W2017 wk 1 vs San Diego State: 76 · W2018 wk 2 vs Liberty: 64 · W2018 wk 3 vs Hawai'i: 63 · W2018 wk 4 vs Oklahoma: 65 · L2018 wk 5 vs Buffalo: 63 · W2018 wk 7 vs San José State: 64 · W2018 wk 8 vs Miami (OH): 65 · W2018 wk 9 vs Eastern Michigan: 62 · W2018 wk 10 vs Air Force: 67 · W2018 wk 11 vs Lafayette: 64 · W2018 wk 12 vs Colgate: 68 · W2018 wk 15 vs Navy: 65 · W2018 wk 1 vs Houston: 66 · W2019 wk 2 vs Michigan: 62 · L2019 wk 3 vs UTSA: 62 · W2019 wk 4 vs Morgan State: 55 · W2019 wk 6 vs Tulane: 57 · L2019 wk 7 vs Western Kentucky: 58 · L2019 wk 8 vs Georgia State: 58 · L2019 wk 9 vs San José State: 62 · L2019 wk 10 vs Air Force: 64 · L2019 wk 11 vs Massachusetts: 54 · W2019 wk 12 vs VMI: 51 · W2019 wk 14 vs Hawai'i: 55 · L2019 wk 15 vs Navy: 53 · L2020 wk 2 vs UL Monroe: 49 · W2020 wk 4 vs Cincinnati: 50 · L2020 wk 5 vs Abilene Christian: 54 · W2020 wk 6 vs The Citadel: 57 · W2020 wk 7 vs UTSA: 48 · W2020 wk 8 vs Mercer: 48 · W2020 wk 11 vs Tulane: 43 · L2020 wk 12 vs Georgia Southern: 52 · W2020 wk 15 vs Navy: 51 · W2020 wk 16 vs Air Force: 47 · W2020 wk 1 vs West Virginia: 47 · L2021 wk 2 vs Western Kentucky: 59 · W2021 wk 3 vs UConn: 58 · W2021 wk 4 vs Miami (OH): 55 · W2021 wk 5 vs Ball State: 59 · L2021 wk 7 vs Wisconsin: 56 · L2021 wk 8 vs Wake Forest: 59 · L2021 wk 10 vs Air Force: 58 · W2021 wk 11 vs Bucknell: 60 · W2021 wk 12 vs Massachusetts: 58 · W2021 wk 13 vs Liberty: 59 · W2021 wk 15 vs Navy: 60 · L2021 wk 1 vs Missouri: 59 · W2022 wk 2 vs UTSA: 66 · L2022 wk 3 vs Villanova: 66 · W2022 wk 5 vs Georgia State: 67 · L2022 wk 6 vs Wake Forest: 66 · L2022 wk 7 vs Colgate: 65 · W2022 wk 8 vs UL Monroe: 56 · W2022 wk 10 vs Air Force: 61 · L2022 wk 11 vs Troy: 67 · L2022 wk 12 vs UConn: 61 · W2022 wk 13 vs Massachusetts: 65 · W2022 wk 15 vs Navy: 67 · W2023 wk 2 vs Delaware State: 61 · W2023 wk 3 vs UTSA: 59 · W2023 wk 4 vs Syracuse: 63 · L2023 wk 6 vs Boston College: 63 · L2023 wk 7 vs Troy: 59 · L2023 wk 8 vs LSU: 63 · L2023 wk 9 vs Massachusetts: 57 · L2023 wk 10 vs Air Force: 58 · W2023 wk 11 vs Holy Cross: 65 · W2023 wk 12 vs Coastal Carolina: 64 · W2023 wk 15 vs Navy: 65 · W2024 wk 2 vs Florida Atlantic: 63 · W2024 wk 4 vs Rice: 64 · W2024 wk 5 vs Temple: 65 · W2024 wk 6 vs Tulsa: 66 · W2024 wk 7 vs UAB: 67 · W2024 wk 8 vs East Carolina: 67 · W2024 wk 10 vs Air Force: 66 · W2024 wk 11 vs North Texas: 63 · W2024 wk 13 vs Notre Dame: 68 · L2024 wk 14 vs UTSA: 68 · W2024 wk 15 vs Tulane: 67 · W2024 wk 16 vs Navy: 66 · L2024 wk 1 vs Louisiana Tech: 65 · W2025 wk 2 vs Kansas State: 67 · W2025 wk 4 vs North Texas: 64 · L2025 wk 5 vs East Carolina: 65 · L2025 wk 6 vs UAB: 67 · W2025 wk 7 vs Charlotte: 67 · W2025 wk 8 vs Tulane: 66 · L2025 wk 10 vs Air Force: 66 · W2025 wk 11 vs Temple: 67 · W2025 wk 13 vs Tulsa: 67 · L2025 wk 14 vs UTSA: 66 · W2025 wk 16 vs Navy: 67 · L2025 wk 1 vs UConn: 67 · W2026 wk 2 vs South Florida: 71 · L2026 wk 4 vs Temple: 71 · W2026 wk 5 vs Louisiana Tech: 73 · L2026 wk 6 vs Tulane: 72 · W2026 wk 7 vs Florida Atlantic: 73 · next gametypical 62

Every game since 2016, one continuous line; thin rules separate seasons and the chip is where each season finished. Navy dot = win, red = loss. Big drops usually mean a new staff, a new quarterback or a rebuilt line.

Trend · Gelthis season, after each game
typical 62wk 2 vs South Florida · L · on-field 73 · fan mood 63702wk 4 vs Temple · W · on-field 73 · fan mood 66704wk 5 vs Louisiana Tech · L · on-field 71 · fan mood 62675wk 6 vs Tulane · W · on-field 72 · fan mood 68716

How the team is working right now, rebuilt after each game from only the games so far: on-field fit (results vs preseason expectation, lineup settling, execution) and that week's fan & media mood. Coach security is part of today's Gel number but isn't rebuilt week by week yet. Navy frame = win, red = loss.

Continuity facts
Head coach
Year 13
at this school
Offensive coordinator
Year 3
at this school
Defensive coordinator
Year 1
new this season
HC & OC together
3 seasons
working together
QB with his OC
2 seasons
same play-caller
QB & receivers
14.0 games
started together, average
Offensive line pairs
13.6 games
started together, average
Returning starters
50%
from last season
Starter experience
13 starts
career average
Internal facts
Pressers read
soon
this season, coaches and players
Coach tone
soon
vs his own normal
"We" vs "I"
soon
share of team language
Owning mistakes
soon
vs pointing outward
Same story
soon
coaches and players agree
After losses
soon
how fast tone recovers
Leaders named
soon
players teammates point to
Newcomers
soon
transfers talked about as part of it
Openness
soon
forthcoming vs guarded
Measured from press conferences and interviews, program by program.
Climate facts
Athletic director
Tom Theodorakis
year 2
Football spending
—
federal report
Spending trend
—
over three years
Department revenue
—
all sports
Recruiting spend
—
men's teams
Home crowds
—
of capacity
Staff turnover
44%
on-field staff new this season
Fan mood
soon
fans and local media
Coach & AD
soon
on the same page
Finances: U.S. Department of Education athletics disclosures. Athletic directors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
Offense · games started togetherlatest lineup · 11 starters
Hellums
Smith
Howard
Mott
Anderson
Poloskey
Kloska
Small
Appleton
Gennarelli
Williams
QBCale Hellums1521441315515151315
RBCarson Smith22212212222
WRSamari Howard1421841417518171617
WRBrady Mott41444444444
WRBrady Anderson1321441515515151315
TEParker Poloskey1521741518518181618
OLKyle Kloska51545555555
OLBrady Small1521841518544183018
OLHenry Appleton1521741518518181618
OLPaolo Gennarelli1321641316530163016
OLTeddy Williams1521741518518181618

Each square: games the two players have started together at this school (darker = more). Gray diagonal: the player's own starts here.

Defense · games started togetherlatest lineup · 11 starters
Harris-Miller
Stowers
Bousum
Nixon
Walton
Moss
Mayes
Nnadozie
Williams
Porter
Tallman
DLKody Harris-Miller22510555226525
DLDillon Stowers55455555525
DLJack Bousum10416444166424
LBNoah Nixon55455555525
LBElijah Walton55455555525
LBJaquavious Moss55455555525
DBJaydan Mayes22516555317525
DBStephen Nnadozie65655577525
DBCaleb Williams55455555525
DBJulian Porter22222222222
DBZane Tallman55455555525

Each square: games the two players have started together at this school (darker = more). Gray diagonal: the player's own starts here.

Chemistry is Scorebook's own rating of how well a program fits together, on the same all-time 0-99 scale as our other ratings (compared with every FBS team since 2016; 62 is typical, 20-50 signals something is wrong, and single digits are reserved for true collapses; each season is compared with its own era). This early version blends continuity (who has played and coached together, and for how long; it counts most) with the climate around the program; how the program talks joins as it is measured. Within continuity, quarterback-centered pairings count most because they held up when we tested them against results. How our ratings work →