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Index · this season
80
at its 5-year level
Career73since 1936
Peak981959
Last 581seasons
#14 nationally · 4-1 (2-1 conf)
Résumé #11
Schedule so far #13
Margin ±5 pts (tightens with games)
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Ole Miss Rebels

SEC · Oxford, MS · Vaught-Hemingway Stadium · Head coach Pete Golding
Rival
Bitter rivalry
41-64-4 all time (109 meetings since 1902)
LSU leads
Last: won 32-24 (2026) · Ole Miss 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. The school claims 3.0national titles
Heisman Trophy winners0Heisman
Seasons finishing in the AP top 10 since 193613AP top-10
Consensus All-Americans since 193614All-Americans
NFL draft picks since 1967122NFL picks
Winning percentage since 193658.7%win pct
History since 1936 · football since 1902. Every season →
Chemistry
Chem 66: new staff, still building66
Chem 67: typical
67Foundation
Chem 66: typical
66Gel
gel counts 45% so far
▲ Above its norm +4Trending up
early · #24 of 138
HC year1
Ret. starters41%
QB yrs w/ OC1
View chemistry →
Team chemistryearly · #24 of 138 FBS teams
Chem 67: typicalFoundation67+Chem 66: typicalGel66=Chem 66: typicalChem66Gel counts 45% so far (it grows as games are played, up to half)
Foundationwhat the program has built · moves over seasons
Foundation67Staff stability — Coach and coordinator tenure, staff who came along, assistant turnoverStaff stability48Roster continuity — Returning starters and the lineup's experienceRoster continuity76Unit cohesion — QB & coordinator, QB & receivers, offensive line, defense: how long each unit has played togetherUnit cohesion68Administration — Athletic director continuity and coach-AD alignmentAdministration72Investment — Commitment to football: its share of the department's spending and whether that is growing, plus spending and recruitingInvestment72Fan base — How passionate and loyal the fan base is: how often it sells out, and whether it sells out games that don't matterFan base72
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
48
Staff cohesion52
HC year 1 · OC year 3 · DC year 3
Assistant turnover44
76% of on-field staff new this season (FBS average about 45%)
▸Roster continuity
Returning starters and the lineup's experience
76
Returning core69
41% of last season's starters · FBS median 32%
Experience82
16 career starts per starter · FBS median 12
▸Unit cohesion
QB & coordinator, QB & receivers, offensive line, defense: how long each unit has played together
68
QB & coordinator55
1st season together · same as 76% of FBS teams
QB & receivers70
4.5 games started together on average · FBS median 3.9
Line cohesion84
8.7 games per linemen pair · FBS median 5.2
Defensive cohesion67
4.9 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
72
AD continuity72
Keith Carter · year 8 (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
▸Investment
Commitment to football: its share of the department's spending and whether that is growing, plus spending and recruiting
72
Football's share78
36% of department spending goes to football
Investment trend60
+27% over three years
Football investment83
$61.8M on football (2024-25 federal report)
Recruiting spend75
$2.61M men's recruiting
Department resources73
$171M athletic department revenue
▸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
72
Sellouts72
sellout crowds (95%+ of capacity) at 26 of 48 home games (last 8 seasons)
Sells out anyway72
sellout crowds at 18 of 35 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 & sharp51Alignment — 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 mood79Coach security — The hard-facts hot seat, inverted: results vs expectation, recent seasons vs the program's norm, stakes, a new ADCoach security78
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
+0.2 points a game vs its preseason projection (5 games)
▸Settled & sharp
A settled starting lineup and clean execution (penalties, turnovers) vs its own normal
51
This season51
85% 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
79
This season79
AP preseason #9 -> now #9 · beat rival LSU 32-24 (+14) · results 4-1 (+7, 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
78
This season78
Pete Golding, year 2 · 80% wins so far · +0.2 pts a game vs preseason expectation · last two seasons +7% vs the program's norm · banked job capital (recent top-10 / top-25 finishes)

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
'1655'1758'1873'1953'2041'2166'2263'2368'2474'2566'262016 wk 1 vs Florida State: 60 · L2016 wk 2 vs Wofford: 71 · W2016 wk 3 vs Alabama: 64 · L2016 wk 4 vs Georgia: 76 · W2016 wk 5 vs Memphis: 76 · W2016 wk 7 vs Arkansas: 73 · L2016 wk 8 vs LSU: 75 · L2016 wk 9 vs Auburn: 76 · L2016 wk 10 vs Georgia Southern: 67 · W2016 wk 11 vs Texas A&M: 63 · W2016 wk 12 vs Vanderbilt: 53 · L2016 wk 13 vs Mississippi State: 55 · L2017 wk 2 vs UT Martin: 51 · W2017 wk 3 vs California: 59 · L2017 wk 5 vs Alabama: 58 · L2017 wk 6 vs Auburn: 58 · L2017 wk 7 vs Vanderbilt: 59 · W2017 wk 8 vs LSU: 59 · L2017 wk 9 vs Arkansas: 60 · L2017 wk 10 vs Kentucky: 48 · W2017 wk 11 vs Louisiana: 49 · W2017 wk 12 vs Texas A&M: 58 · L2017 wk 13 vs Mississippi State: 58 · W2018 wk 2 vs Southern Illinois: 74 · W2018 wk 3 vs Alabama: 73 · L2018 wk 4 vs Kent State: 73 · W2018 wk 5 vs LSU: 73 · L2018 wk 6 vs UL Monroe: 75 · W2018 wk 7 vs Arkansas: 75 · W2018 wk 8 vs Auburn: 74 · L2018 wk 10 vs South Carolina: 74 · L2018 wk 11 vs Texas A&M: 74 · L2018 wk 12 vs Vanderbilt: 75 · L2018 wk 13 vs Mississippi State: 73 · L2019 wk 2 vs Arkansas: 42 · W2019 wk 3 vs SE Louisiana: 43 · W2019 wk 4 vs California: 52 · L2019 wk 5 vs Alabama: 53 · L2019 wk 6 vs Vanderbilt: 43 · W2019 wk 7 vs Missouri: 42 · L2019 wk 8 vs Texas A&M: 52 · L2019 wk 10 vs Auburn: 52 · L2019 wk 11 vs New Mexico State: 52 · W2019 wk 12 vs LSU: 52 · L2019 wk 14 vs Mississippi State: 53 · L2020 wk 5 vs Kentucky: 38 · W2020 wk 6 vs Alabama: 39 · L2020 wk 7 vs Arkansas: 39 · L2020 wk 8 vs Auburn: 40 · L2020 wk 9 vs Vanderbilt: 39 · W2020 wk 11 vs South Carolina: 41 · W2020 wk 13 vs Mississippi State: 39 · W2020 wk 16 vs LSU: 41 · L2020 wk 1 vs Indiana: 41 · W2021 wk 2 vs Austin Peay: 67 · W2021 wk 3 vs Tulane: 66 · W2021 wk 5 vs Alabama: 68 · L2021 wk 6 vs Arkansas: 67 · W2021 wk 7 vs Tennessee: 67 · W2021 wk 8 vs LSU: 65 · W2021 wk 9 vs Auburn: 63 · L2021 wk 10 vs Liberty: 64 · W2021 wk 11 vs Texas A&M: 64 · W2021 wk 12 vs Vanderbilt: 66 · W2021 wk 13 vs Mississippi State: 68 · W2021 wk 1 vs Baylor: 66 · L2022 wk 2 vs Central Arkansas: 63 · W2022 wk 3 vs Georgia Tech: 62 · W2022 wk 4 vs Tulsa: 63 · W2022 wk 5 vs Kentucky: 63 · W2022 wk 6 vs Vanderbilt: 61 · W2022 wk 7 vs Auburn: 64 · W2022 wk 8 vs LSU: 64 · L2022 wk 9 vs Texas A&M: 64 · W2022 wk 11 vs Alabama: 63 · L2022 wk 12 vs Arkansas: 64 · L2022 wk 13 vs Mississippi State: 65 · L2022 wk 1 vs Texas Tech: 63 · L2023 wk 2 vs Tulane: 67 · W2023 wk 3 vs Georgia Tech: 68 · W2023 wk 4 vs Alabama: 68 · L2023 wk 5 vs LSU: 68 · W2023 wk 6 vs Arkansas: 69 · W2023 wk 8 vs Auburn: 70 · W2023 wk 9 vs Vanderbilt: 67 · W2023 wk 10 vs Texas A&M: 70 · W2023 wk 11 vs Georgia: 71 · L2023 wk 12 vs UL Monroe: 69 · W2023 wk 13 vs Mississippi State: 69 · W2023 wk 1 vs Penn State: 68 · W2024 wk 2 vs Middle Tennessee: 74 · W2024 wk 3 vs Wake Forest: 73 · W2024 wk 4 vs Georgia Southern: 74 · W2024 wk 5 vs Kentucky: 74 · L2024 wk 6 vs South Carolina: 73 · W2024 wk 7 vs LSU: 73 · L2024 wk 9 vs Oklahoma: 74 · W2024 wk 10 vs Arkansas: 73 · W2024 wk 11 vs Georgia: 72 · W2024 wk 13 vs Florida: 73 · L2024 wk 14 vs Mississippi State: 74 · W2024 wk 1 vs Duke: 74 · W2025 wk 2 vs Kentucky: 59 · W2025 wk 3 vs Arkansas: 61 · W2025 wk 4 vs Tulane: 58 · W2025 wk 5 vs LSU: 60 · W2025 wk 7 vs Washington State: 65 · W2025 wk 8 vs Georgia: 66 · L2025 wk 9 vs Oklahoma: 67 · W2025 wk 10 vs South Carolina: 67 · W2025 wk 11 vs The Citadel: 67 · W2025 wk 12 vs Florida: 67 · W2025 wk 14 vs Mississippi State: 67 · W2025 wk 1 vs Tulane: 66 · W2025 wk 1 vs Georgia: 63 · W2025 wk 1 vs Miami: 66 · L2026 wk 2 vs Charlotte: 65 · W2026 wk 3 vs LSU: 65 · W2026 wk 4 vs Florida: 67 · L2026 wk 6 vs Vanderbilt: 67 · W2026 wk 7 vs Missouri: 68 · 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 51 · fan mood 60551wk 2 vs Charlotte · W · on-field 46 · fan mood 64532wk 3 vs LSU · W · on-field 50 · fan mood 99693wk 4 vs Florida · L · on-field 46 · fan mood 85614wk 6 vs Vanderbilt · W · on-field 53 · fan mood 80636

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 1
new this season
Offensive coordinator
Year 3
at this school
Defensive coordinator
Year 3
at this school
HC & OC together
1 seasons
working together
QB with his OC
1 seasons
same play-caller
QB & receivers
4.5 games
started together, average
Offensive line pairs
8.7 games
started together, average
Returning starters
41%
from last season
Starter experience
16 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
Keith Carter
year 8
Football spending
$61.8M
2024-25 federal report
Spending trend
+27%
over three years
Department revenue
$171M
all sports
Recruiting spend
$2.61M
men's teams
Home crowds
—
of capacity
Staff turnover
76%
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
Chambliss
Lacy
Cook
Alexander
Hasz
Odom
Kutas
Sanders
Townsend
Davis
Howes
QBTrinidad Chambliss1817455418181854
RBKewan Lacy1719344319191743
WRJohntay Cook II43444444443
WRDeuce Alexander54455455554
TELuke Hasz54455455554
TECaleb Odom43444444443
OLPatrick Kutas1819455420201854
OLBrycen Sanders1819455420201854
OLDelano Townsend1817455418181854
OLTerez Davis54455455554
OLConnor Howes43344344444

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
Oatis
Purchase
Franklin
Echoles
Thomas
Ferrelli
Kite
Aguero
Denson
Joseph
Braxton
DLJehiem Oatis11111111111
DLBlake Purchase15555545355
DLKam Franklin152020551653513
DLWill Echoles152020551653513
LBKeaton Thomas15555545355
LBLuke Ferrelli15555545355
DBAntonio Kite14161644164349
DBJoenel Aguero15555545355
DBSharif Denson13333333333
DBEdwin Joseph15555545355
DBJaylon Braxton15131355953513

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 →