Southern Illinois

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Player stats

Player stats · 2026 season

No player stats logged for this program yet — stats appear once the season is underway.

How scary each game got

Southern Illinois lost to Youngstown State after being 74% to win; the closest win was against Southeast Missouri State, down to 17%

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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 Southern Illinois during that game; the thick mark is where it started. Numbers are the game week.

Home-field advantage · 2018–present · FBS opponents

Southern Illinois is worth +6.0 points more at home than on the road.

Top third of FBS, 82nd percentile of 133 programs

33% at home, 31% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (2-4 home, 5-11 away). Interval ±8.0.

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, Southern Illinois has beaten the number by −1.0 more at home than away over 54 games. That is inside the ±9.3 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.

Saluki Stadium seats 15,000 and has averaged 52% full (7,778, 15 games reported). Visitors cover a median 305 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 41 of 42 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.

Home2-4Away5-11Edge+6.0 ±8.0Visitor trip305 mi

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

How much of Southern Illinois’s number is the schedule?

Raw EPA/play through week 10 is 0.00; adjusted for opponent strength, it's −0.02. The widest gap came in week 1: 0.12 raw vs. 0.02 adjusted.

0.170.06-0.05Wk 1Wk 6Wk 10Raw EPA/playOpponent-adjusted
0.170.06-0.05Wk 1Wk 6Wk 10RawAdjusted
Source CFB Zeitgeist · season-to-date, opponent-adjusted model
Havoc & trenchesDefense havoc rate 0.161, 51th percentile

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

Havoc rate (D) 0.161
51st
Havoc allowed (O) 0.168
28th
Front-seven havoc (D) 0.101
59th
Secondary havoc (D) 0.060
51st
Stuff rate (D) 0.208
60th
Stuff rate allowed (O) 0.214
18th
Line yards (O) 2.649
10th
Line yards allowed (D) 2.739
59th
Standard-downs success (O) 0.419
10th
Standard-downs success allowed (D) 0.449
53rd
Passing-downs success (O) 0.299
38th
Passing-downs success allowed (D) 0.304
42nd
Screened 12 claims, 12 survived · 2026 season, FBS only, min. 3 games with data this season
CFB Zeitgeist “Go Salukis.”
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