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Mid-American · Chuck Martin, year 13 (73-75) · Yager Stadium · 24,286 · 11,126 avg in 2026

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The model#85 CFB ZeitgeistSP+ #104 (-10.0) · FPI #112
The marketCincinnati by 14.5at Cincinnati · our model 42% Miami (OH) · a number, not a pick

LastW 45–7 vs Holy Cross · Sat Sep 12 · David McComb 234 pass yds, 3 TD, 12 rush yds

Nextat Cincinnati · Sat Sep 19 · 3:30 pm ET · TQL Stadium · Cincinnati by 14.5 · series 34-35-1, last win 2023 · Game preview

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

Zeitgeist statureRegional Program I#81 all-time– holding
one line from National Program III
The era · 2014 through 2025

The CFP Era

12 seasons inside the CFP era, no bids yet — the era the program is still trying to break into.

Era record 71-74 12 seasons
Best season 11-3 2023
TRAJECTORY · quality-score line · AP rank dotted · CFP bids marked · coach regimes ribboned
Program Quality AP Rank (inverted) CFP Appearance
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CHAPTERS · 12 seasons · tap to open the archive
'14 2-10 '15 3-9 '16 6-7 '17 5-7 '18 6-6 '19 8-6 '20 — '21 6-6 '22 6-7 '23 11-3 '24 9-5 '25 7-7

Miami (OH)'s 2014–2025 record is 71-74. The era is still being written; the CFP line is the one the program is arguing for.

Era win %
.489
Ranked seasons (AP)
0/12
Best AP finish
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Program outlook

Paul Brown went to college in Oxford, Ohio. So did Woody Hayes, Ara Parseghian, and Bo Schembechler. The Cradle of Coaches produced the men who built the sport — and the program they came from has now been to three straight MAC Championship Games and lost all three.

Read the full essay — 3 more paragraphs

Miami University's contribution to football runs deeper than its conference record. Paul Brown went to Oxford and became the architect of modern pro football — the draft, the playbook, the practice structure. Woody Hayes went to Oxford and built Ohio State. Ara Parseghian went to Oxford and won Notre Dame national championships. Bo Schembechler went to Oxford and defined Michigan for two decades. No program of Miami's size has produced that concentration of coaching influence, and the program's identity — 'Love and Honor,' the Victory Bell, the Cradle of Coaches plaza — rests on a heritage that belongs to all of college football, not just the MAC.

The present-tense arc is Chuck Martin's run at the MAC title. Martin has the RedHawks in three straight championship games and has lost all three — including a 23-13 loss to Western Michigan in 2025, followed by an 18-3 bowl loss to Fresno State. The fanbase carries that ache with a specific mixture of pride and frustration: pride that the program is good enough to be there, frustration that the game that would hang hardware next to the Cradle of Coaches statues keeps ending just short. Martin returns for 2026. The roster returns largely intact. The MAC Championship Game will be there again.

The 2026 question is specific: what does Miami do differently on Championship Saturday? The program's roster quality is not the gap — three title game appearances in three years is not an accident. The question is whether the fourth trip produces the result the other three didn't, and whether the Cradle of Coaches name gets hardware added to its legacy in Martin's era.

On the field

Disciplined, fundamentals-first MAC football — the kind of program you'd expect from the school that trained the sport's great teaching coaches. Miami runs physical, gap-sound football on defense and a balanced offensive attack that doesn't ask the scheme to carry the roster. Martin's teams are consistent at winning regular-season games through execution and lose fewer games than they should on talent alone. The gap has shown up on championship Saturdays.

program outlook · as of 2026-06-14

All-time record · Miami (OH)

Miami (OH) has won 54% of its games since 1904 — 64% at home, 47% on the road.

428-345-18 all-time · 96 seasons · 1904–2026

Home 209-107-11
Away 207-226-7
Neutral 12-12
2 g 1900s
3 g 1910s
3 g 1920s
5 g 1930s
29% 1940s
67% 1950s
67% 1960s
74% 1970s
46% 1980s
59% 1990s
48% 2000s
38% 2010s
59% 2020s

Coaching Era · Miami (OH)

Chuck Martin

Chuck Martin into year 13 — a multi-decade era by modern CFB standards.

Era Chuck Martin · 2014–presentOC: Gus RaglandPrev OC: Pat Welsh (2023–2025)DC: Bill BrechinPrev DC: co-Spence Nowinsky / co-John Hauser (2018–2021)
The full CFP-era story →The full coaching lineage →
13 years · era

Program memory

What this program never forgets

Most weeks vanish. These didn’t.

Parseghian's 1955 unbeaten season

A 9-0 year and Tangerine Bowl, the on-field flower of the coaching dynasty

Roethlisberger's 2003 MAC title

A 13-1 season behind the program's signature QB

The 2025 MAC title game loss

A third straight Championship Game ends 23-13 short against Western Michigan

Heartbreak

Moment of the season — so far · Miami (OH) · 2026

Won 45-7 vs Holy Cross

Week 2 of 2026. A statement margin. Recruiting boards re-rendered overnight.

Decisive Margin

NFL Draft Pipeline

2022–2026

Miami (OH) has sent 2 players to the NFL Draft since 2022 — none in the first round.

Thin. Roster development still maturing.

2 picks · 0 in round 1
#174 Dominique Robinson Outside Linebacker · 2022 · Chicago · #293/370 final season
#227 Jackson Kuwatch Linebacker · 2026 · Carolina · #58/583 final season
#102 all-time · 2 first-round picksthe talent factory →

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Ladder finishHow far up the ladder this season got.

Season standing · 2026 · 1-1

Miami (OH) is 1-1 and unranked in the season's first weeks.

Even or better through the season's first weeks. The resume is still forming.

Sub-FBSBuildingBowlRankedContenderPlayoff
Coaching historyEvery hire and departure on record, not just the current era.

Coaching history

  • Hired Chuck Martin2014
  • Hired Mike Bath2013
  • Don Treadwell departs8-21, 3 seasons
  • Mike Bath departs0-7, 1 season
  • Hired Don Treadwell2011
  • Hired Lance Guidry2010
  • Michael Haywood departs10-15, 2 seasons
  • Lance Guidry departs1-0, 1 season
Coordinator lineageOffense and defense under each coordinator.

Unit lineage

Miami (OH)’s offense and defense, by coordinator

FBS-relative efficiency percentile per season (2014–2026), same population as the Coordinator Mirror board. Dashed vertical lines mark a coordinator change.

Offense2014–2026
2014201620182020202220242026
2014–2020 · co-Eric Koehler / co-George Barnett2021–2022 · Eric Koehler2023–2025 · Pat Welsh2026 · Gus Ragland
Defense2014–2026
2014201620182020202220242026
2014–2015 · co-Matt Pawlowski2016–2017 · co-John Hauser / co-Matt Pawlowski2018–2021 · co-Spence Nowinsky / co-John Hauser2022–2026 · Bill Brechin
Elite (≥70th pct)AveragePoor (≤30th pct)
Gameday customsThe gameday customs unique to this program.

Rituals

Three gameday rituals — the ones outsiders never quite catch.

Cradle of Coaches Lineage

since 1928

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Miami (OH)'s 'Cradle of Coaches' identity — the coaching lineage that produced Paul Brown (Browns + Bengals), Woody Hayes (Ohio State + Big Ten), Ara Parseghian (Notre Dame + 2 national titles), Bo Schembechler (Michigan + 13 Big Ten titles), Carmen Cozza (Yale), John Pont (Yale + Northwestern), Sid Gillman (Chargers + Hall of Fame), and others — is one of CFB's most-storied historical anchors. Most coaching-tree lineage in CFB history.

Victory Bell (vs Cincinnati)

since 1888 · trophy game

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Miami (OH)-Cincinnati plays for the Victory Bell — the oldest non-Ivy League rivalry in CFB at 130+ meetings since 1888. The bell trophy's annual home depends on the outcome. The In-State Ohio Battle of Southwest Ohio is the structural conference fixture across MAC era + Cincinnati's Big 12 entry.

Love and Honor (Alma Mater)

since 1908

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'Love and Honor' — Miami's alma mater (composed 1908) — is sung after every game by both fans and players, win or lose. The tradition of singing alma mater post-game is universal in CFB, but the Love and Honor lyrics + the post-game ritual are uniquely Miami (OH). The tradition + the Cradle of Coaches legacy anchor program identity.

Cultural identityWhat college football loses if this program didn't exist.
BowlsEvery bowl this program's played, and how it did.

Bowl / Postseason Ledger

Recent postseason (2016-2025): 2-5

Most recent: 2025 — loss 18-3 (away). Last 5 postseason: 2-3.

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