Richmond Spiders

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Player stats · 2026 season

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Biggest plays from Richmond’s games

Official highlights with our numbers: the plays that moved the chance to win most in Richmond’s games this season, whoever made them.

  1. Q1, 10:44 · NC State up 7Jayden Scott runs 65 yards for a touchdownRichmond at NC State, week 2Q1, 10:44 · NC State 14, Richmond 06565-yard touchdown run6565-yard touchdown run65-yard touchdown runJ.Scott rush middle for 65 yards gain to the RICH00 touchdown, 1ST DOWN, kick goodWatch from this playESPN College Football
  2. Q1, 1:01 · NC State up 14Jayden Scott runs 7 yards for a touchdownRichmond at NC State, week 2Q1, 1:01 · NC State 21, Richmond 021-0score after the play21-0score after the playJ.Scott rush middle for 7 yards gain to the RICH00 touchdown, kick goodWatch from this playESPN College Football
  3. Q2, 11:33 · NC State up 21CJ Bailey runs 1 yard for a touchdownRichmond at NC State, week 2Q2, 11:33 · NC State 28, Richmond 028-0score after the play28-0score after the playC.Bailey rush right for 1 yard gain to the RICH00 touchdown, kick goodWatch from this playESPN College Football
  4. Q2, 10:39 · Richmond down 28Jackson Vick intercepts Ashten SnelsireRichmond at NC State, week 2Q2, 10:39 · Richmond 0, NC State 287Richmond’s turnover led to a touchdown7Richmond’s turnover led to a touchdownRichmond’s turnover led to a touchdownA.Snelsire pass intercepted by J.Vick at NCSU30 J.Vick return for loss of 1 yard to the NCSU29, out of bounds at NCSU29Watch from this playESPN College Football
  5. Q2, 6:23 · NC State up 35CJ Bailey finds Preston Douglas for a 15-yard touchdownRichmond at NC State, week 2Q2, 6:23 · NC State 42, Richmond 0Preston Douglas's first career receiving touchdownPreston Douglas's first career receiving touchdownC.Bailey pass complete short right to P.Douglas caught at RICH04, for 15 yards to the RICH00 touchdown, 1ST DOWN, kick goodWatch from this playESPN College Football
  6. Q2, 0:24 · NC State up 42Will Wilson runs 1 yard for a touchdownRichmond at NC State, week 2Q2, 0:24 · NC State 49, Richmond 0NC State scored with 0:24 left in the halfNC State scored with 0:24 left in the halfW.Wilson rush middle for 1 yard gain to the RICH00 touchdown, kick goodWatch from this playESPN College Football

All 7 plays from Richmond’s games

How scary each game got

Richmond Spiders lost at Holy Cross after being 77% to win; the closest win was at Lafayette, down to 4%

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Tap a game for its score and win chances.

Each bar runs from the lowest to the highest chance our model gave Richmond Spiders during that game; the thick mark is where it started. Numbers are the game week.

Home-field advantage · 2018–present · FBS opponents

Richmond Spiders is worth +7.6 points more at home than on the road.

Top tenth of FBS, 98th percentile of 133 programs

40% at home, 17% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (2-3 home, 2-10 away). Interval ±13.7.

95% intervalmodel 2.3 · books ~3Weakest home edge in FBSStrongest
95% intervalmodel 2.3 · books ~3Weakest home edge in FBSStrongest
The stadium and how the home edge is measured

Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge. The books use about 3. Per-team versions were tested and did not hold up (why). Against the closing line, Richmond Spiders has beaten the number by +3.3 more at home than away over 57 games. That is inside the ±8.1 that many games can resolve, so the results cannot tell this stadium from the flat number. That is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.

E. Claiborne Robins Stadium seats 8,217 and has averaged 70% full (5,754, 16 games reported). Visitors cover a median 207 miles to get here (2018-present).

Edge = half the gap between average home margin and average road margin, FBS opponents only, non-neutral games since 2018; the interval is 95%. Market line: closing spread, seasons with lines on file. Trip length is straight-line miles from the visiting team's campus to the venue, measured across all 46 home games since 2018. No national trip rank shown: the ranked field is FBS venues only and leaves out the service academies and venues with too few measured games.

Home2-3Away2-10Edge+7.6 ±13.7Visitor trip207 mi

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Scheme claimsFive specific, testable claims about how this team plays.

How much of Richmond Spiders’s number is the schedule?

Raw EPA/play through week 10 is −0.02; adjusted for opponent strength, it's −0.02. The widest gap came in week 2: 0.10 raw vs. 0.01 adjusted.

0.120.02-0.08Wk 2Wk 6Wk 10Raw EPA/playOpponent-adjusted
0.120.02-0.08Wk 2Wk 6Wk 10RawAdjusted
Source CFB Zeitgeist · season-to-date, opponent-adjusted model
Havoc & trenchesDefense havoc rate 0.181, 77th percentile

Disruption, run-blocking, and down-and-distance efficiency.

Havoc rate (D) 0.181
77th
Havoc allowed (O) 0.188
5th
Front-seven havoc (D) 0.115
77th
Secondary havoc (D) 0.066
64th
Stuff rate (D) 0.219
73rd
Stuff rate allowed (O) 0.203
28th
Line yards (O) 2.788
22nd
Line yards allowed (D) 2.831
49th
Standard-downs success (O) 0.417
10th
Standard-downs success allowed (D) 0.422
75th
Passing-downs success (O) 0.274
23rd
Passing-downs success allowed (D) 0.270
70th
Screened 12 claims, 12 survived · 2026 season, FBS only, min. 3 games with data this season
Historical echoPrograms whose arc bent the same way — then what happened.

Richmond Spiders’s slide has precedent — and the closest programs clawed back.

Programs whose stature fell in the same shape. The grey line is their decline; the color is what came next for them.

UNLV 1991–1996
clawed back
Fresno State 1969–1974
stayed down
Ball State 1999–2004
clawed back
UTSA 2014–2019
clawed back

An analogy on the shape of a program’s Zeitgeist stature arc — not a prediction. Interim calibration; matched among current FBS programs at a comparable level.

CFB Zeitgeist “Go Spiders.”
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