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Georgia State

Panthers · Sun Belt

Head coach Dell McGee Year 3 with Georgia State

Year-3 HCs (2015-2024) averaged -0.10 W vs. preseason expectation

Season Projection · 2026 W0

10,000 sims
2.6
Expected wins
3-7
Proj record
0 to 6
Win range (90%)
#135 (128–138)
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 Northern Illinois
    Home · Sep 26
  • vs Coastal Carolina
    Home · Oct 31
  • vs Georgia Southern
    Home · Nov 14
  • vs Louisiana
    Home · Nov 28

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 · 2026

32 score
  • Quarterback 47% (3/6 )
  • Offensive line 42% (8/19 players)
  • Skill (RB/WR/TE) 20% (19/36 )
  • Front 7 (DL/LB) 23% (16/32 )
  • Secondary 22% (7/22 )
  • Special teams 0% (0/7 )

Share of last season's production each unit returns. Higher means more continuity: 70%+ is healthy, 45–70% a normal rebuild, under 45% a major turnover.

Portal additions · 2026

-0.8 rating

21 proven transfers in, carrying the production below from their prior school.

  • Savion Hart RB ← Georgetown 73 impact
  • Ayden Pereira QB ← Merrimack 56 impact
  • Owen Dupree WR ← West Georgia 28 impact
  • Matt Buron TE ← Fordham 15 impact
  • Jaden Kelly LB ← Kennesaw State 12 impact
  • Jaylen Poe RB ← Northern Illinois 10 impact

Impact scores offensive skill additions (QB/RB/WR/TE) — prior-season production normalized within position (100 ≈ a 90th-percentile producer at that spot) and discounted for non-FBS competition, so a top back counts alongside a top quarterback. Defensive and O-line additions count as transfers but aren't box-score measurable, so they carry no impact score. The rating figure is this class's portal contribution vs. the FBS average, capped at ±2.5.

If QB1 is out (TJ Finley)

GIE projects a -3.7 rating drop and a -14.9pp shift in playoff probability if Georgia State loses its QB1 for an extended stretch. (n=5 historical samples; pooled across recent seasons.)

Situational efficiency · 2025

FBS percentile rank
  • 3rd-down conversion 36.1% 44th — below avg
  • Red-zone TD rate 14.9% 51th — average
  • 4th-down aggression 43.0% 80th — strong
  • Late & close 4.7 yds/play 39th — below avg

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.