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Index · this season
58
▲ Above its 5-year level +21▲ Up 4 this season
Career45since 1936
Peak612018
Last 537seasons
#97 nationally · 3-2 (1-0 conf)
Résumé #92
Schedule so far #130
Margin ±5 pts (tightens with games)
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Florida International Panthers

Conference USA · Miami, FL · Pitbull Stadium · Head coach Willie Simmons
Rival
Building rivalry
7-14 all time (21 meetings since 2005)
Middle Tennessee leads
Last: won 56-30 (2025) · Florida International has won 2 straight
Holds it
program traits are earned from history
No recognized national titles since 1936. Counted: AP poll champion, a coaches-poll champion, or the BCS / playoff title-game winner; a split year counts for both.0national titles
Heisman Trophy winners0Heisman
Seasons finishing in the AP top 10 since 19360AP top-10
Consensus All-Americans since 19360All-Americans
NFL draft picks since 196710NFL picks
Winning percentage since 193634.8%win pct
History since 1936 · football since 2005. Every season →
Chemistry
Chem 56: typical56
Chem 55: typical
55Foundation
Chem 58: typical
58Gel
gel counts 40% so far
▲ Above its norm +6
early · #77 of 138
HC year2
Ret. starters23%
QB yrs w/ OC1
View chemistry →
Team chemistryearly · #77 of 138 FBS teams
Chem 55: typicalFoundation55+Chem 58: typicalGel58=Chem 56: typicalChem56Gel counts 40% so far (it grows as games are played, up to half)
Foundationwhat the program has built · moves over seasons
Foundation55Staff stability — Coach and coordinator tenure, staff who came along, assistant turnoverStaff stability68Roster continuity — Returning starters and the lineup's experienceRoster continuity48Unit cohesion — QB & coordinator, QB & receivers, offensive line, defense: how long each unit has played togetherUnit cohesion45Administration — Athletic director continuity and coach-AD alignmentAdministration65Investment — 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 base52
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
68
Staff cohesion57
HC year 2 · OC year 2 · DC year 5
Assistant turnover80
17% of on-field staff new this season (FBS average about 45%)
▸Roster continuity
Returning starters and the lineup's experience
48
Returning core47
23% of last season's starters · FBS median 32%
Experience50
10 career starts per starter · FBS median 12
▸Unit cohesion
QB & coordinator, QB & receivers, offensive line, defense: how long each unit has played together
45
QB & coordinator55
1st season together · same as 76% of FBS teams
QB & receivers56
3.5 games started together on average · FBS median 3.9
Line cohesion47
3.8 games per linemen pair · FBS median 5.2
Defensive cohesion12
2.6 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
65
AD continuity65
Scott Carr · year 5 (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
52
Sellouts49
sellout crowds (95%+ of capacity) at 1 of 33 home games (last 8 seasons)
Sells out anyway54
sellout crowds at 1 of 23 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
Gel58Playing above its parts — Results vs what its preseason projection expected, game by gamePlaying above its parts69Settled & sharp — A settled starting lineup and clean execution (penalties, turnovers) vs its own normalSettled & sharp40Alignment — 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 mood69Coach security — The hard-facts hot seat, inverted: results vs expectation, recent seasons vs the program's norm, stakes, a new ADCoach security74
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
69
This season69
+2.3 points a game vs its preseason projection (4 games)
▸Settled & sharp
A settled starting lineup and clean execution (penalties, turnovers) vs its own normal
40
This season40
76% 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
69
This season69
outside the AP poll: projected #108 preseason -> #97 in our Index now · lost to rival Florida Atlantic 16-10 (-4) · results 3-2 (+5, 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
74
This season74
Willie Simmons, year 2 · 60% wins so far · +2.3 pts a game vs preseason expectation · last two seasons +15% 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
'1663'1753'1860'1964'2059'2148'2214'2348'2464'2524'262016 wk 1 vs Indiana: 60 · L2016 wk 2 vs Maryland: 74 · L2016 wk 3 vs Massachusetts: 71 · L2016 wk 4 vs UCF: 77 · L2016 wk 5 vs Florida Atlantic: 63 · W2016 wk 6 vs UTEP: 68 · W2016 wk 7 vs Charlotte: 69 · W2016 wk 8 vs Louisiana Tech: 68 · L2016 wk 9 vs Middle Tennessee: 68 · L2016 wk 10 vs Western Kentucky: 71 · L2016 wk 12 vs Marshall: 63 · W2016 wk 13 vs Old Dominion: 63 · L2017 wk 2 vs Alcorn State: 55 · W2017 wk 4 vs Rice: 57 · W2017 wk 5 vs Charlotte: 54 · W2017 wk 6 vs Middle Tennessee: 57 · L2017 wk 7 vs Tulane: 57 · W2017 wk 9 vs Marshall: 55 · W2017 wk 10 vs UTSA: 58 · W2017 wk 11 vs Old Dominion: 57 · L2017 wk 12 vs Florida Atlantic: 58 · L2017 wk 13 vs Western Kentucky: 56 · W2017 wk 14 vs Massachusetts: 54 · W2017 wk 1 vs Temple: 53 · L2018 wk 2 vs Old Dominion: 61 · W2018 wk 3 vs Massachusetts: 62 · W2018 wk 4 vs Miami: 60 · L2018 wk 5 vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 62 · W2018 wk 7 vs Middle Tennessee: 60 · W2018 wk 8 vs Rice: 60 · W2018 wk 9 vs Western Kentucky: 63 · W2018 wk 10 vs Florida Atlantic: 64 · L2018 wk 11 vs UTSA: 64 · W2018 wk 12 vs Charlotte: 60 · W2018 wk 13 vs Marshall: 63 · L2018 wk 1 vs Toledo: 60 · W2019 wk 2 vs Western Kentucky: 64 · L2019 wk 3 vs New Hampshire: 65 · W2019 wk 4 vs Louisiana Tech: 57 · L2019 wk 6 vs Massachusetts: 65 · W2019 wk 7 vs Charlotte: 64 · W2019 wk 8 vs UTEP: 62 · W2019 wk 9 vs Middle Tennessee: 63 · L2019 wk 10 vs Old Dominion: 64 · W2019 wk 11 vs Florida Atlantic: 65 · L2019 wk 13 vs Miami: 65 · W2019 wk 14 vs Marshall: 65 · L2019 wk 1 vs Arkansas State: 64 · L2020 wk 6 vs Middle Tennessee: 60 · L2020 wk 8 vs Jacksonville State: 58 · L2020 wk 11 vs Florida Atlantic: 53 · L2020 wk 12 vs Western Kentucky: 59 · L2021 wk 2 vs Texas State: 49 · L2021 wk 3 vs Texas Tech: 49 · L2021 wk 4 vs Central Michigan: 50 · L2021 wk 5 vs Florida Atlantic: 50 · L2021 wk 6 vs Charlotte: 48 · L2021 wk 8 vs Western Kentucky: 50 · L2021 wk 9 vs Marshall: 48 · L2021 wk 10 vs Old Dominion: 47 · L2021 wk 11 vs Middle Tennessee: 51 · L2021 wk 12 vs North Texas: 43 · L2021 wk 13 vs Southern Miss: 48 · L2022 wk 2 vs Texas State: 11 · L2022 wk 4 vs Western Kentucky: 0 · L2022 wk 5 vs New Mexico State: 0 · W2022 wk 6 vs UConn: 10 · L2022 wk 7 vs UTSA: 11 · L2022 wk 8 vs Charlotte: 12 · W2022 wk 9 vs Louisiana Tech: 14 · W2022 wk 10 vs North Texas: 13 · L2022 wk 11 vs Florida Atlantic: 12 · L2022 wk 12 vs UTEP: 12 · L2022 wk 13 vs Middle Tennessee: 14 · L2023 wk 2 vs North Texas: 46 · W2023 wk 3 vs UConn: 48 · W2023 wk 4 vs Liberty: 49 · L2023 wk 6 vs New Mexico State: 47 · L2023 wk 7 vs UTEP: 48 · L2023 wk 8 vs Sam Houston: 51 · W2023 wk 9 vs Jacksonville State: 51 · L2023 wk 11 vs Middle Tennessee: 50 · L2023 wk 12 vs Arkansas: 51 · L2023 wk 13 vs Western Kentucky: 48 · L2024 wk 2 vs Central Michigan: 65 · W2024 wk 3 vs Florida Atlantic: 65 · L2024 wk 4 vs Monmouth: 61 · L2024 wk 5 vs Louisiana Tech: 63 · W2024 wk 7 vs Liberty: 64 · L2024 wk 8 vs UTEP: 64 · L2024 wk 9 vs Sam Houston: 63 · L2024 wk 10 vs New Mexico State: 63 · W2024 wk 12 vs Jacksonville State: 64 · L2024 wk 13 vs Kennesaw State: 66 · L2024 wk 14 vs Middle Tennessee: 64 · W2025 wk 2 vs Penn State: 23 · L2025 wk 3 vs Florida Atlantic: 25 · W2025 wk 4 vs Delaware: 24 · L2025 wk 6 vs UConn: 24 · L2025 wk 8 vs Western Kentucky: 25 · W2025 wk 9 vs Kennesaw State: 26 · L2025 wk 10 vs Missouri State: 25 · L2025 wk 11 vs Middle Tennessee: 25 · W2025 wk 12 vs Liberty: 10 · W2025 wk 13 vs Jacksonville State: 25 · W2025 wk 14 vs Sam Houston: 25 · W2025 wk 1 vs UTSA: 24 · L2026 wk 2 vs Buffalo: 57 · W2026 wk 3 vs Florida Atlantic: 57 · L2026 wk 4 vs Long Island University: 55 · W2026 wk 6 vs New Mexico State: 58 · W2026 wk 7 vs Jacksonville State: 55 · 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 1 · on-field 38 · fan mood 65481wk 2 vs Buffalo · W · on-field 55 · fan mood 64582wk 3 vs Florida Atlantic · L · on-field 46 · fan mood 49473wk 4 vs Long Island University · W · on-field 47 · fan mood 57514wk 6 vs New Mexico State · W · on-field 46 · fan mood 64536

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 2
at this school
Offensive coordinator
Year 2
at this school
Defensive coordinator
Year 5
at this school
HC & OC together
2 seasons
working together
QB with his OC
1 seasons
same play-caller
QB & receivers
3.5 games
started together, average
Offensive line pairs
3.8 games
started together, average
Returning starters
23%
from last season
Starter experience
10 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
Scott Carr
year 5
Football spending
—
federal report
Spending trend
—
over three years
Department revenue
—
all sports
Recruiting spend
—
men's teams
Home crowds
—
of capacity
Staff turnover
17%
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
Kohl
Carrie
Anderson
McNeal
Stone
Verdugo
Flournoy
Tripp
Ripert
Harley
Smith
QBJJ Kohl55432555255
RBAnthony Carrie55432555255
WRMaguire Anderson44852548244
WRKyle McNeal3351315412133
WRJojo Stone22212222122
TEJackson Verdugo55552757255
OLZaire Flournoy55442565255
OLAntonio Tripp Jr.5581227517255
OLManasseh Ripert22211222222
OLDaveion Harley55432555255
OLJeremy Smith55432555255

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
Jennings
Moss
Simmons
Baldridge
Courtney
Littlejohn
Boykins
Hill
Miller
Celestine
Gadson
DLNathan Jennings21211121222
DLRJ Moss Jr.14422241444
DLKenton Simmons241725252595
DLElisha Baldridge12221121222
LBPercy Courtney Jr.12516221222
LBBrayshawn Littlejohn12212221222
DBDeAndre Boykins24522251555
DBDemetrius Hill112111115121
DBWesley Miller24522251555
DBJai-Ayviauynn Celestine24922252595
DBRyan Gadson24522251555

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 →