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Florida Atlantic

Owls · American Athletic

Head coach Zach Kittley Year 1 with Florida Atlantic

Year-1 HCs (2015-2024) averaged -0.19 W vs SP+ expected · n=83

Season Projection · 2026 W0

10,000 sims
4.5
Expected wins
4-7
Proj record
2 to 8
Win range (90%)
#104 (82–124)
Final rank (90%)
0%
Make playoff
0%
Win conference

Path to Glory

Tap a win or a loss on each pivotal game to see how the playoff probability shifts. Leave any game unset to average across both outcomes.

Make the playoff

0%

Baseline projection.

  • vs Navy
    Home · Sep 12
  • vs Florida International
    Home · Sep 19
  • vs Texas Southern
    Home · Oct 3

Pivotal games are the 5 with the largest playoff-probability swing, ranked by the model. Math: chained Bayesian log-odds update from the conditional simulation set; gets the directionally right answer but won't perfectly capture cross-game correlations until the full Monte Carlo pipeline lands.

Returning production · 2025

44 PCI
  • Quarterback 50% (3/6 players)
  • Offensive line 57% (13/23 players)
  • Skill (RB/WR/TE) 37% (10/27 players)
  • Front 7 (DL/LB) 40% (12/30 players)
  • Secondary 35% (7/20 players)
  • Special teams 13% (1/8 players)

PCI weights returning production by position group (QB/OL heaviest). 70%+ is healthy continuity; 45-70% is a normal rebuild; below 45% is a meaningful turnover.

Situational efficiency · 2025

FBS percentile rank
  • 3rd-down conversion 37.5% 54th — average
  • Red-zone TD rate 10.5% 18th — bottom tier
  • 4th-down aggression 60.2% 98th — elite
  • Late & close 6.4 yds/play 80th — strong

Percentile is across all FBS teams with play-by-play data for the season. "Late & close" is yards per play in Q4+ with a one-score margin — a proxy for clutch offensive performance.

More coming

Per-team pages get the full treatment in Phase 3: current rating, season projection histogram, schedule with win probabilities, and live overlays on Pylon stream days. For now, this page exists so stories and news have a permanent home as content rolls in.