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Index · this season
60
▼ Below its 5-year level -5
Career58since 1936
Peak792000
Last 565seasons
#84 nationally · 4-2 (1-1 conf)
Résumé #92
Schedule so far #133
Margin ±5 pts (tightens with games)
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Toledo Rockets

Mid-American · Toledo, OH · Glass Bowl · Head coach Mike Jacobs
Rival
Established rivalry
31-18-3 all time (52 meetings since 1973)
Toledo leads
Last: won 21-3 (2025) · Toledo has won 4 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 19361All-Americans
NFL draft picks since 196732NFL picks
Winning percentage since 193658.9%win pct
History since 1936 · football since 1955. Every season →
Chemistry
Chem 31: new staff, still building31
Chem 5: collapse
5Foundation
Chem 63: typical
63Gel
gel counts 45% so far
▼ Below its norm -34Trending up
early · #131 of 138
HC year1
Ret. starters5%
QB yrs w/ OC1
View chemistry →
Team chemistryearly · #131 of 138 FBS teams
Chem 5: collapseFoundation5+Chem 63: typicalGel63=Chem 31: warning zoneChem31Gel counts 45% so far (it grows as games are played, up to half)
Foundationwhat the program has built · moves over seasons
Foundation5Staff stability — Coach and coordinator tenure, staff who came along, assistant turnoverStaff stability14Roster continuity — Returning starters and the lineup's experienceRoster continuity11Unit cohesion — QB & coordinator, QB & receivers, offensive line, defense: how long each unit has played togetherUnit cohesion49Administration — Athletic director continuity and coach-AD alignmentAdministration56Investment — Commitment to football: its share of the department's spending and whether that is growing, plus spending and recruitingInvestment55Fan base — How passionate and loyal the fan base is: how often it sells out, and whether it sells out games that don't matterFan base54
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
14
Staff cohesion2
HC year 1 · OC year 1 · DC year 1
Assistant turnover25
93% of on-field staff new this season (FBS average about 45%)
▸Roster continuity
Returning starters and the lineup's experience
11
Returning core12
5% of last season's starters · FBS median 32%
Experience10
6 career starts per starter · FBS median 12
▸Unit cohesion
QB & coordinator, QB & receivers, offensive line, defense: how long each unit has played together
49
QB & coordinator55
1st season together · same as 76% of FBS teams
QB & receivers64
4.0 games started together on average · FBS median 3.9
Line cohesion32
3.1 games per linemen pair · FBS median 5.2
Defensive cohesion34
3.4 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
56
AD continuity56
Bryan B. Blair · year 3 (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
▸Investment
Commitment to football: its share of the department's spending and whether that is growing, plus spending and recruiting
55
Football's share69
32% of department spending goes to football
Investment trend49
+15% over three years
Football investment45
$12.6M on football (2024-25 federal report)
Recruiting spend44
$0.58M men's recruiting
Department resources39
$39M 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
54
Sellouts60
sellout crowds (95%+ of capacity) at 4 of 41 home games (last 8 seasons)
Sells out anyway49
sellout crowds at 0 of 20 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
Gel63Playing above its parts — Results vs what its preseason projection expected, game by gamePlaying above its parts58Settled & sharp — A settled starting lineup and clean execution (penalties, turnovers) vs its own normalSettled & sharp54Alignment — 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 mood64Coach security — The hard-facts hot seat, inverted: results vs expectation, recent seasons vs the program's norm, stakes, a new ADCoach security82
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
58
This season58
-0.9 points a game vs its preseason projection (5 games)
▸Settled & sharp
A settled starting lineup and clean execution (penalties, turnovers) vs its own normal
54
This season54
79% 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
64
This season64
outside the AP poll: projected #87 preseason -> #84 in our Index now · results 4-2 (+1, 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
82
This season82
Mike Jacobs, year 1 · 67% wins so far · -0.9 pts a game vs preseason expectation

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
'1657'1771'1865'1967'2061'2167'2270'2373'2460'2563'262016 wk 1 vs Arkansas State: 36 · W2016 wk 2 vs Maine: 53 · W2016 wk 3 vs Fresno State: 53 · W2016 wk 5 vs BYU: 58 · L2016 wk 6 vs Eastern Michigan: 51 · W2016 wk 7 vs Bowling Green: 56 · W2016 wk 8 vs Central Michigan: 59 · W2016 wk 9 vs Ohio: 56 · L2016 wk 10 vs Akron: 57 · W2016 wk 11 vs Northern Illinois: 53 · W2016 wk 12 vs Ball State: 54 · W2016 wk 13 vs Western Michigan: 56 · L2016 wk 1 vs App State: 57 · L2017 wk 3 vs Tulsa: 68 · W2017 wk 4 vs Miami: 72 · L2017 wk 6 vs Eastern Michigan: 75 · W2017 wk 7 vs Central Michigan: 71 · W2017 wk 8 vs Akron: 70 · W2017 wk 9 vs Ball State: 71 · W2017 wk 10 vs Northern Illinois: 72 · W2017 wk 11 vs Ohio: 72 · L2017 wk 12 vs Bowling Green: 73 · W2017 wk 13 vs Western Michigan: 74 · W2017 wk 14 vs Akron: 73 · W2017 wk 1 vs App State: 71 · L2018 wk 3 vs Miami: 65 · L2018 wk 4 vs Nevada: 66 · W2018 wk 5 vs Fresno State: 68 · L2018 wk 6 vs Bowling Green: 67 · W2018 wk 7 vs Eastern Michigan: 63 · L2018 wk 8 vs Buffalo: 66 · L2018 wk 9 vs Western Michigan: 66 · W2018 wk 10 vs Ball State: 67 · W2018 wk 11 vs Northern Illinois: 65 · L2018 wk 12 vs Kent State: 67 · W2018 wk 13 vs Central Michigan: 67 · W2018 wk 1 vs Florida International: 65 · L2019 wk 3 vs Murray State: 61 · W2019 wk 4 vs Colorado State: 61 · W2019 wk 5 vs BYU: 62 · W2019 wk 6 vs Western Michigan: 63 · W2019 wk 7 vs Bowling Green: 65 · L2019 wk 8 vs Ball State: 65 · L2019 wk 9 vs Eastern Michigan: 61 · W2019 wk 11 vs Kent State: 64 · W2019 wk 12 vs Northern Illinois: 66 · L2019 wk 13 vs Buffalo: 67 · L2019 wk 14 vs Central Michigan: 67 · L2020 wk 11 vs Western Michigan: 64 · L2020 wk 12 vs Eastern Michigan: 63 · W2020 wk 13 vs Ball State: 64 · L2020 wk 14 vs Northern Illinois: 64 · W2020 wk 15 vs Central Michigan: 61 · W2021 wk 2 vs Notre Dame: 70 · L2021 wk 3 vs Colorado State: 65 · L2021 wk 4 vs Ball State: 67 · W2021 wk 5 vs Massachusetts: 68 · W2021 wk 6 vs Northern Illinois: 70 · L2021 wk 7 vs Central Michigan: 69 · L2021 wk 8 vs Western Michigan: 64 · W2021 wk 10 vs Eastern Michigan: 62 · L2021 wk 11 vs Bowling Green: 66 · W2021 wk 12 vs Ohio: 66 · W2021 wk 13 vs Akron: 67 · W2021 wk 1 vs Middle Tennessee: 67 · L2022 wk 2 vs Massachusetts: 67 · W2022 wk 3 vs Ohio State: 68 · L2022 wk 4 vs San Diego State: 70 · L2022 wk 5 vs Central Michigan: 70 · W2022 wk 6 vs Northern Illinois: 70 · W2022 wk 7 vs Kent State: 70 · W2022 wk 8 vs Buffalo: 70 · L2022 wk 9 vs Eastern Michigan: 72 · W2022 wk 11 vs Ball State: 67 · W2022 wk 12 vs Bowling Green: 72 · L2022 wk 13 vs Western Michigan: 69 · L2022 wk 14 vs Ohio: 72 · W2022 wk 1 vs Liberty: 70 · W2023 wk 2 vs Texas Southern: 76 · W2023 wk 3 vs San José State: 75 · W2023 wk 4 vs Western Michigan: 76 · W2023 wk 5 vs Northern Illinois: 76 · W2023 wk 6 vs Massachusetts: 75 · W2023 wk 7 vs Ball State: 76 · W2023 wk 8 vs Miami (OH): 76 · W2023 wk 10 vs Buffalo: 76 · W2023 wk 11 vs Eastern Michigan: 76 · W2023 wk 12 vs Bowling Green: 76 · W2023 wk 13 vs Central Michigan: 77 · W2023 wk 14 vs Miami (OH): 74 · L2023 wk 1 vs Wyoming: 73 · L2024 wk 2 vs Massachusetts: 57 · W2024 wk 3 vs Mississippi State: 59 · W2024 wk 4 vs Western Kentucky: 59 · L2024 wk 6 vs Miami (OH): 59 · W2024 wk 7 vs Buffalo: 60 · L2024 wk 8 vs Northern Illinois: 60 · W2024 wk 9 vs Bowling Green: 55 · L2024 wk 10 vs Eastern Michigan: 62 · W2024 wk 12 vs Central Michigan: 61 · W2024 wk 13 vs Ohio: 61 · L2024 wk 14 vs Akron: 62 · L2024 wk 1 vs Pittsburgh: 60 · W2025 wk 2 vs Western Kentucky: 64 · W2025 wk 3 vs Morgan State: 64 · W2025 wk 4 vs Western Michigan: 64 · L2025 wk 5 vs Akron: 64 · W2025 wk 7 vs Bowling Green: 65 · L2025 wk 8 vs Kent State: 65 · W2025 wk 9 vs Washington State: 64 · L2025 wk 11 vs Northern Illinois: 65 · W2025 wk 12 vs Miami (OH): 64 · W2025 wk 13 vs Ball State: 64 · W2025 wk 14 vs Central Michigan: 66 · W2025 wk 1 vs Louisville: 63 · L2026 wk 2 vs Central Connecticut: 0 · W2026 wk 3 vs Temple: 4 · W2026 wk 4 vs San Diego State: 5 · W2026 wk 5 vs Ball State: 6 · W2026 wk 6 vs Buffalo: 4 · L2026 wk 7 vs Eastern Michigan: 5 · 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 65 · fan mood 59631wk 2 vs Central Connecticut · W · on-field 46 · fan mood 66542wk 3 vs Temple · W · on-field 57 · fan mood 62593wk 4 vs San Diego State · W · on-field 65 · fan mood 80714wk 5 vs Ball State · W · on-field 63 · fan mood 79695wk 6 vs Buffalo · L · on-field 55 · fan mood 71616

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 1
new this season
Defensive coordinator
Year 1
new this season
HC & OC together
1 seasons
working together
QB with his OC
1 seasons
same play-caller
QB & receivers
4.0 games
started together, average
Offensive line pairs
3.1 games
started together, average
Returning starters
5%
from last season
Starter experience
6 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
Bryan B. Blair
year 3
Football spending
$12.6M
2024-25 federal report
Spending trend
+15%
over three years
Department revenue
$39M
all sports
Recruiting spend
$0.58M
men's teams
Home crowds
—
of capacity
Staff turnover
93%
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
Richter
Miller
Crosby
Dabbs
Hammer
Lee
Senda
Hofer
Rector
Johnson
Carwise
QBJohn Alan Richter74543436526
RBCJ Miller44333324324
WRTerrell Crosby Jr.53832335425
WRAdjatay Dabbs43343224324
WRBryson Hammer33233223223
TESam Lee43322424414
OLDylan Senda32322233223
OLMatt Hofer64543436526
OLLuke Rector53432425515
OLDominic Johnson22222122122
OLAhmad Carwise64543436526

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
Lambert-Pipkin
Chandler
Zock
Johnson
Fox
Zay
Smith
Thompson
Watkins
Russell
Petite
DLLucas Lambert-Pipkin11111111111
DLNathaniel Chandler15555552425
DLAndrew Zock15666562426
DLZach Johnson15666562426
LBJulian Fox15666562426
LBIsaac Zay15555552425
DBArmorion Smith15666562426
DBNicholas Thompson12222223122
DBDonovan Watkins14444441414
DBTyrell Russell12222222122
DBIsrael Petite15666562426

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 →