2-7, lost 3 straight, on track for 3-9 in the regular season.
Now
Career arc
This week Wed Nov 4
- Last gameL 10-23 at Western Michigan Sat Oct 31
- This season2-7 lost 3 straight
- Hot seat24% 15th of 132
- On track for3-9 regular season
- Nextvs. Kent State Tue Nov 10
- Stature118th of 138 FBS programs
Win and he’s at 21%. Lose and he’s at 28%.
vs. Kent State, Tue Nov 10, 7 pm ET ESPNU · Kent State is 3-6 · George vs. Mark Carney: 0-1 · Bowling Green’s chance to win: 68% (the site’s model)
- If Bowling Green wins: 21%, 18th of 132
- Now: 24%
- If Bowling Green loses: 28%, 10th of 132
Is he getting fired?
24% chance he’s out after the season · 15th of 132 FBS head coaches · Hot
If he finishes…
Bar: how likely that finish isNumber: his chance of being out
- 2-1031%
- 3-924%
- 4-817%
- 5-711%
Why his number is where it is
Our hot-seat model, on his record so far, the win chances for every game he has left, and his contract (a bigger buyout, relative to pay, makes a change costlier). Ranked against the 132 FBS head coaches with 3+ games this season.
Now hotter than at this point in 2025.
His hot seat, week by week
The chance he’s out by the end of that season, as it stood after every week of his tenure here, by today’s model.
Hottest: 2026, week 4 (31%, 13th-hottest of 137 FBS jobs that week). Top factor: ▲ Hotter 0-4, outscored by 112
Earlier seasons price the games left with power ratings rebuilt after those seasons ended.
What drives his number
The biggest factors, each against the typical FBS job today.
- ▲ Hotter2-7, outscored by 101
- ▲ Hotter4-8 over his previous season here
- ▲ Hotter$1.7M buyout (USA Today estimate) · 2.4× his pay, a multiple below average in FBS — cheap to move on
What happened to coaches like him, 2004–2025
A different comparison: past coaches, not today’s, grouped by one fact at a time. Neither line knows the games he has left or his contract, so they can sit above or below his chance.
- Were 2-7 after 9 games
- 19% pushed out over results · of 218 coaches
- Were in year 2, after 9 games
- 5% pushed out over results · of 467 coaches
How good is this number? Checked on every FBS coach from 2010 to 2025, with its percentages calibrated each season on earlier years only: they track what happened — coaches it put near 25% were out about a quarter of the time — and a version pricing the games left with the previous season’s ratings ranked jobs as well as the ranking this page used before. Each week it learns from coaches who were still on the job at that point, so a firing during the season counts. In the Boiling zone it has run a few points high. Every job, and the method.
No headlines named him in the last 7 days
Offense: 109th of 138 per play. Defense: 110th.
3 games left
- Tue Nov 10vs. Kent State (3-6)ESPNU68%
- Fri Nov 20at Toledo (6-2)
9% - Sat Nov 28vs. Massachusetts (4-4)56%
Percent: Bowling Green’s chance to win, from the site’s model. Records are through today. Networks as announced; the rest are set closer to kickoff.
How the season got here
Where Bowling Green stood among 138 FBS programs by stature after each game (1st is the highest; the CFB Zeitgeist ledger).
- Oct 26–Nov 1L 10-23 at Western Michigan0 headlines
- Oct 19–25L 24-31 at Buffalo1 headline · 81st of 138
- Oct 12–18L 31-32 vs. Ball State0 headlines
- Oct 5–11W 38-10 vs. Sacramento State1 headline · 83rd of 138
- Sep 28–Oct 4W 24-20 at Miami (OH)0 headlines
- Sep 21–27 · rebuiltL 6-14 vs. South Florida0 headlines
Each week as this page showed it at the time. Weeks marked rebuilt came before this page existed: they were built afterward from only what was known by the end of that week.
Watch the biggest plays from Bowling Green’s games, ranked by how much each moved the chance to win.
Fans
Several stories about him in the last 60 days
Tue Nov 10: Kent State
from several outlets
UB notebook: Eddie George's Bowling Green next, Bulls kicker Oliver Hautanen earns MAC award
Buffalo News Oct 20 · one outlet
What they’re talking about
The headlines for each topic are on the News tab.
Many stories about him this season
from many outlets
FCS Program Upsets Eddie George’s Team in Dramatic Fashion
Heavy +1 Sep 5 · a few outlets
What they’re talking about
The headlines for each topic are on the News tab.
Is he on the hot seat? What has he said?
Across his career
22 stories about him across 2 seasons
Stories are headlines grouped by what they are about, counted through Nov 4.
Stats
Big games
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
1-0 against his rivals.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Ran more than the situation called for under Partridge.
742 run and pass snaps at Bowling Green, 2025–2025, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Building the roster
Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His one ranked Bowling Green class of his own finished #75 nationally.
His class — he had the full signing cycleInherited — signed before he arrived
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his; inherited and mid-transition classes still show here, faded, but stay out of the average.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2026 roster arrived on his watch — 85 of 108 players. The other 23 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 19% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2025–2026Counting players who have since left: 25% of the 107 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 22 of 50 signees (44%) across his 2025–2026 tenure, drawn from 15 states in all. Next: MI (7).
60% of his signees come from OH and its 5 border states (MI 7, IN 1).
Off this map: 4 signees to the west (TX 3, CA) and 1 to the east (CT).
- median hometown distance
- 160 mi
- within 100 mi
- 19%
- within 500 mi
- 67%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 10%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
News
Stories about him
Headlines, grouped by what they are about. Each is the outlet’s own.
This week
Press conference and quotes
- Cornhuskers WireWhat Bowling Green coach Eddie George said about playing NebraskaSep 10
Nebraska AthleticsBowling Green Head Coach Eddie George Postgame Quotes - University of Nebraska - Official Athletics WebsiteSep 13- Cornhuskers WireWhat Bowling Green coach Eddie George said after loss to NebraskaSep 14
This season
Press conference and quotes
- Cornhuskers WireWhat Bowling Green coach Eddie George said about playing NebraskaSep 10
- Nebraska AthleticsBowling Green Head Coach Eddie George Postgame Quotes - University of Nebraska - Official Athletics WebsiteSep 13
- Cornhuskers WireWhat Bowling Green coach Eddie George said after loss to NebraskaSep 14
Profile and feature
Cyclone FanaticRand-O thoughts on Iowa State, Eddie George, Troy Davis — and Paul McCartneySep 16
BG Falcon MediaEddie George: Philosophy meets Falcon footballAug 29
In his own words
Every quote, back to July 2026
In his own words
Seems like a broken record right now, just missed opportunities
We’re just playing whack-a-mole right now
We’re competing, but we’re not making enough plays for us to get the results that we’re looking for
We’re going to have to establish some of that defensively and clog the holes for what they like to do
We’re going to have to establish the run, it’s what we’re going to have to do
We didn’t execute in those situations
We talked all week long about defensively getting knockback on the edges
We know what we do, and we’ve seen it.
It’s gonna start to slow down for him
That was the mindset all along
We certainly feel like there are things to be built on
The biggest change that I saw was everyone doing their job
We gave up some big runs toward the end due to attrition
Our defense gave us an outstanding chance to win that ball game
Success for me is going to be no pre-snap penalties
It’s been handled at the university level and they’re going to be back with the team. They learned a valuable lesson.
This is the second straight week where turnovers have come from that position
We wanted to go with Austin, because the game at that point was out of hand
We were not good against the run today, clearly
The game at that point was out of hand, so we wanted to see if we could get the ball moving in a positive direction with Austin in there
We got to take this one on the chin, and know this is a part of the process of becoming, and we are going to have hard nights like this
So our identity, we want to be a balanced offense
We have to execute. It’s that simple
Initially I fought against it, but once I finally decided that this was the route I was going to take, it has really taken off
I never thought about getting into coaching but once I really committed to that, just a slew of ideas and inspiration – to inspire, to develop, to discipline, to encourage.
That’s pretty much the premise and the foundation of the program; that I am constantly stretching them past their comfort zone to maximize their full potential, to reach their full potential as people
(You have to) be a student of the game
When life hits you in the mouth and when you’re hit with adversity, how are you going to respond?
From an X’s and O’s standpoint, we want to be able to run the ball and stop the run. That’s the first order of business
You really have to do a great job of evaluating the players, evaluating the personality, doing a strong vetting process of their backstory
I understand the cloth Mike is cut from
Austyn Dendy [has made] a complete 180 from where he was a year ago
The expectation level is to get better
Career
Hires into jobs like this
Hired into programs rated 13 to 13 (Regional Program IV tier). Rough match, not calibrated yet — ranked on what the job inherited alone. Coaches hired into this same job aren’t used as comps.
- Scot Loeffler20193–9-4.1
- Carl Pelini20182–3-3.1
- Mike Jinks20164–8-3.6
- Dino Babers20148–6-4.0
- Dave Clawson20097–6-0.4
- Gregg Brandon200311–3+2.5
- Urban Meyer20018–3+2.7
- Gary Blackney199111–1+2.5
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Followed Scot Loeffler (2019–2024).
| Season | 2025 | 2026 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 4-8 | 2-7 | |
| Postseason | — | — | |
| Coordinators | |||
| OC | Travis Partridge | Greg Nosal | |
| DC | Brandon Fisher | Joe Bowden | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | 8 | 16 | |
| Defense | 56 | 36 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||
| 1st-down pass% | 26.2 | 40.5 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 40.0 | 37.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 31.0 | 23.8 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits younger transfers than most — more of a development bet.
AI Narratives — “Bowling Green — stat check” and 1 more on the team page.