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Tigers · American Athletic

Head coach Ryan Silverfield Year 6 with Memphis

Season Projection · 2026 W0

10,000 sims
7.6
Expected wins
8-4
Proj record
4 to 10
Win range (90%)
#43 (23–69)
Final rank (90%)
1%
Make playoff
9%
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

1%

Baseline projection.

  • at South Florida
    Away · Nov 13
  • at Navy
    Away · Nov 21
  • at Tulane
    Away · Oct 16
  • at Boise State
    Away · Sep 12
  • at UNLV
    Away · Aug 30

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

33 PCI
  • Quarterback 20% (1/5 players)
  • Offensive line 36% (8/22 players)
  • Skill (RB/WR/TE) 41% (12/29 players)
  • Front 7 (DL/LB) 41% (16/39 players)
  • Secondary 38% (9/24 players)
  • Special teams 30% (3/10 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 38.1% 59th — average
  • Red-zone TD rate 21.5% 93th — elite
  • 4th-down aggression 37.8% 59th — average
  • Late & close 5.6 yds/play 66th — average

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.

Schedule

Full 2026 slate. Tap a row for the matchup breakdown.

Latest Stories

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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.