5-3, lost 3 straight, on track for 7-5 in the regular season.
Bowls and playoffs: 2-3
2015Boca Raton BowlL 17-32
Baylor
2018Texas BowlW 45-38
2019Sugar BowlL 14-26
Nebraska
2024Pinstripe BowlW 20-15
2025Las Vegas BowlL 22-44
Fri Nov 6, 8 pm ET 
· Illinois is 5-3 · Rhule vs. Bret Bielema: 1-1 · Nebraska’s chance to win: 76% (the site’s model)
I'm Steady in the Boat”
Matt Rhule Says No Coordinator Changes Will Be Made
Sports Illustrated headline · Mon Nov 2Not the recipe to win”
Coach Rhule discusses what happened following loss to Washington
KETV headline · Sun Nov 1
The New York TimesMatt Rhule says Nebraska fan verbally accosted his 13-year-old daughterMon Nov 2
Yahoo SportsMatt Rhule reacts to fan harassing his daughter after Nebraska lossTue Nov 3Yahoo SportsNebraska coach Matt Rhule reveals his daughter was accosted after blowing Washington gameMon Nov 2Sports IllustratedWill Matt Rhule Ever Figure It Out at Nebraska?Mon Nov 2Sports Illustrated'I'm Steady in the Boat': Matt Rhule Says No Coordinator Changes Will Be MadeMon Nov 2
On3Matt Rhule claims 10-year-old daughter was verbally accosted by fan following loss to WashingtonMon Nov 2
247SportsMatt Rhule Monday press conference updatesMon Nov 2
Saturday Down SouthMatt Rhule says daughter was confronted by fan after Nebraska’s loss to WashingtonMon Nov 2
FootballScoopHouse of Horrors: Ranking Nebraska's 1-score losses under Matt RhuleMon Nov 2KETVBig Red Zone Rundown: Examining Matt Rhule's passionate press conference, previewing Nebraska-IllinoisTue Nov 3
People.comNebraska Football Coach Matt Rhule Reveals 13-Year-Old Daughter Was Verbally Attacked by Fan After GameTue Nov 3
Awful AnnouncingMatt Rhule reveals Nebraska fan verbally attacked his daughterTue Nov 3
Locked On‘I’m not quitting’: Matt Rhule stands up for Nebraska football amid personal attackTue Nov 3Matt Rhule is laying the ground work He won't be here after this year , crazy Nebraska fans.
ThotDoc's Brain Droppings on the Washington Game Here are the dreary Droppings. Lots of questions and not many answers. Brain Droppings
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Fan mood · last 3 weeks · more negative than 3 in 4 FBS fan bases
76%
40%Percent: Nebraska’s chance to win, from the site’s model. Records are through today. Networks as announced; the rest are set closer to kickoff.
Where Nebraska stood among 138 FBS programs by stature after each game (1st is the highest; the CFB Zeitgeist ledger).
CBS Sports“Not the recipe to win”Coach Rhule discusses what happened following loss to Washington, Nov 1The New York Times“Two Plays Away from Being a Top 10 Team”Matt Rhule Addresses Nebraska's Back-to-Back Losses, Oct 19Sports IllustratedYahoo Sports
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Omaha World-HeraldEach 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 Nebraska’s games, ranked by how much each moved the chance to win.
Defense carries it: 84th percentile defense, above the median offense at 63rd.
Nebraska, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Each season is his team’s percentile among every team with that stat (the share it beat), averaged over his completed seasons here; a mid-season takeover year and the season in progress aren’t graded. Letters: A+ 90th percentile and up, A 80, B+ 70, B 60, B− 50, C+ 45, C 40, C− 30, D 15, F below.
This winter
Our poach model, on his record so far, the win chances for every game he has left, his program, his pay and his background. Ranked against the 132 FBS head coaches this season. The zone words describe the market’s interest; none of them says he is leaving.
The biggest factors in his profile, each against the typical FBS head coach today. The games he has left are priced into the number, not listed here.
Tested on every FBS head coach from 2012 through 2025, each season scored by a model fit only on the seasons before it. From three games on, given one coach who left for a head-coaching job elsewhere or an NFL coordinator job and one who stayed, it ranked the one who left ahead 79 to 82% of the time; in a season’s first two games, 78%. Its average chance came within a point of the share who actually left. It counts a move a coach makes while he still holds the job; when his school ends it, that doesn’t count, even if another school then hires him.
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OU is really my 2nd team and I’ll be honest if we had Mateer this year I’d be screaming to fire RhuleNebraska fan
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Matt Rhule’s teams have always struggled putting teams away lateNebraska fan
Matt Rhule needs to be fired at halftime.Nebraska fan
Fri Nov 6: Illinois
8th of 104 FBS head coaches · from dozens of outlets and r/CFB
Matt Rhule claims 10-year-old daughter was verbally accosted by fan following loss to Washington
AOL.com +6 Nov 2 · several outlets
Roster talk is up: several stories in the last two weeks, from a few stories the two weeks before.
The headlines for each topic are on the News tab.
from dozens of outlets and r/CFB
Matt Rhule claims 10-year-old daughter was verbally accosted by fan following loss to Washington
AOL.com +6 Nov 2 · several outlets
The headlines for each topic are on the News tab.
Stories we tracked, by school.
NebraskaDozens of stories2023 to nowMost about: press conference and quotes, game preview, win.
AOL.com +6Matt Rhule claims 10-year-old daughter was verbally accosted by fan following loss to WashingtonNov 2
KCEN-TV +2Matt Rhule’s view on the Nebraska football standouts in the season openerSep 7
Houston Chronicle +2Nebraska's Rhule urges calm after another blown lead but blasts fan who 'cussed out' his daughterNov 2
BaylorSeveral stories2017 to 2019Most about: press conference and quotes, conference and schedule, contract and pay.
Temple2013 to 2016not trackedCould another school hire him? What has he said?
Stories are headlines grouped by what they are about, counted through Nov 4.
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
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.
Just 1-2 against George O'Leary.
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
3-3 against his rivals at Baylor. Winless in 4 tries against Lincoln Riley.
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
2-5 against his rivals at Nebraska. Winless in 3 tries against Kirk Ferentz.
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
5-8 against his rivals. Winless in 6 tries against Lincoln Riley.
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
Called about what the situation called for under every play-caller.
2,367 run and pass snaps at Nebraska, 2023–2025, 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.
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.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.
Six numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His 4 ranked Nebraska classes of his own have averaged #38 nationally — best #18, worst #88.
BaylorNebraskaAcross every program: 6 ranked classes of his own, averaging #36 nationally.
His class — he had the full signing cycle
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.
Temple→Baylor2017Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
of his 2026 roster arrived on his watch — 111 of 117 players. The other 6 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 22% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
24% of his 194 new players since 2023 came through the portal (FBS programs, same seasons: 26%). His share was 17% in 2023 and 47% in 2026.
Graded on the players who arrived and the players who left together, his portal seasons came out about typical for FBS in all 4 seasons graded. our read
Each player counts once, in the season he arrived. 2021, the first season of portal tracking here, is left off because its arrival records look incomplete (about 31 new players per FBS team, against 52 in 2022). Portal grade: the site’s position-value-weighted scoring (the same engine as the Portal Heat feed and the “Who won the portal” grade): the value of the players who came in minus the value of the ones who left, ranked against every FBS program’s grade that same season. A season with fewer than 4 transfers in and out is not graded.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Offensive linemen on his Nebraska rosters have averaged 6 lb heavier than the FBS average (2023–2026) — heavier than 80% of FBS coaching runs since 2010. In the three seasons before he arrived, Nebraska’s line averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average.
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
is his biggest recruiting state: 28 of 101 signees (28%) across his 2023–2026 tenure, drawn from 28 states in all. Next: TX (13).
44% of his signees come from NE and its 6 border states (CO 5, MO 4, IA 3, KS 2, SD 2).
Off this map: 1 signee to the west (CA).
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.
players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. None were his own recruits yet: all 3 roster-verified picks arrived under Scott Frost (2), Mickey Joseph (1).
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | R5.21 | Emmett Johnson | Running Back |  Kansas City Chiefs | recruited under Mickey Joseph |
| 2025 | R4.09 | Ty Robinson | Defensive Tackle |  Philadelphia Eagles | recruited under Scott Frost |
| 2025 | R7.03 | Thomas Fidone II | Tight End |  New York Giants | recruited under Scott Frost |
A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.
Headlines, grouped by what they are about. Each is the outlet’s own.
Press conference and quotes
Houston Chronicle +2Nebraska's Rhule urges calm after another blown lead but blasts fan who 'cussed out' his daughterNov 2Nebraska AthleticsHead Coach Matt Rhule Media Availability | November 2, 2026 - University of Nebraska - Official Athletics WebsiteNov 2
10/11 NOWNebraska Football Head Coach Matt Rhule | Oct. 31 Press Conference - koln | Nebraska Local News, Weather, SportsNov 1247SportsMatt Rhule Monday press conference updatesNov 2Loss
AOL.com +6Matt Rhule claims 10-year-old daughter was verbally accosted by fan following loss to WashingtonNov 2Yahoo SportsFans Throw Trash on Field After Matt Rhule's 3rd Painful Nebraska LossNov 1Yahoo SportsNebraska HC Matt Rhule sends message to Huskers fans after third straight lossNov 1
ESPNNebraska's Matt Rhule urges calm after fan cursed at his daughter following lossNov 2Job security talk
Carriker ChroniclesSomeone on the Nebraska football coaching staff needs to be fired, even if it's not Matt Rhule.Nov 1Game preview
Press conference and quotes
Houston Chronicle +2Nebraska's Rhule urges calm after another blown lead but blasts fan who 'cussed out' his daughterNov 2On3 +1Matt Rhule Talks Biggest Storylines After First Major Scrimmage of Fall CampAug 1510/11 NOW +1Nebraska football head coach Matt Rhule's full press conferenceAug 1510/11 NOW +1Nebraska Football Head Coach Matt Rhule | Sept. 19, 2026 Press ConferenceSep 19Game preview
KCEN-TV +2Matt Rhule’s view on the Nebraska football standouts in the season openerSep 7247SportsMatt Rhule sees teacher first as Rob Aurich prepares for his debutAug 26247Sports‘I’ve learned so much’: Rhule salutes Frank Solich ahead of Nebraska-OhioAug 31On3Rhule Rundown: Nebraska head coach previews Week One matchup with OhioAug 31Sports Illustrated'Anthony's Earned My Respect and Trust; Go Play': Matt Rhule's Message to Colandrea Is Simple Ahead of Game OneAug 31Loss
AOL.com +6Matt Rhule claims 10-year-old daughter was verbally accosted by fan following loss to WashingtonNov 2On3Matt Rhule 'will never' let Nebraska players dance prior to fourth quarter again after loss to OregonOct 19On3Nebraska Fall Camp nuggets: Rhule recaps a productive first weekAug 8Sports Illustrated'This Will Be the Biggest and Leanest Team We've Had': Matt Rhule on NU's Physicality Through One Week of Fall CampAug 8Sports IllustratedMatt Rhule’s Best Nebraska Team Might Surprise People This FallAug 11Win
ESPNBig Ten won't punish Maryland-Nebraska game officials or fine RhuleOct 6
USA TodayNebraska rebuild under Matt Rhule looks stuck in neutral despite Ohio winSep 5
Stay Alive In Power 5Nebraska starts off Matt Rhule’s fourth season with blowout victorySep 8Omaha World-HeraldTo beat Big Ten defenses, Matt Rhule hired 'savant' Rob Aurich to join them — and then some - Omaha World-HeraldSep 25Injuries
Fox NewsMatt Rhule sounds alarm on NFL returnees, $45 million rosters and college football’s payroll problemAug 28Omaha World-HeraldNebraska practice report: NU adds Damon Benning to staff, Matt Rhule updates injuries - Omaha World-HeraldAug 8Omaha World-HeraldNebraska's Matt Rhule talks injuries, takeaways from first live scrimmage of camp - Omaha World-HeraldAug 15KETVWatch: Matt Rhule says no update available on two injured HuskersSep 28Quarterback and depth chart
KHGICoach Rhule sees competition, physical growth as Nebraska opens fall campAug 8On3Matt Rhule talks position battles all over Nebraska rosterAug 9Sports IllustratedCarriker Chronicles: Let's Talk Matt Rhule, Nebraska's Season and a Mobile QuarterbackAug 10Sports IllustratedUpdate on Nebraska's Battle at Running Back, and Is This Matt Rhule's Physically Strongest Team?Aug 12Sports IllustratedThree Takeaways from Matt Rhule Announcing Anthony Colandrea as Nebraska's Starting QuarterbackAug 22A guy walked up to my 13-year-old daughter and was like, ‘F-U and F your dad.’ I’m not going to keep coaching if it means my kids grow up screwed up
I don’t think it’s a good narrative for us to have out there that [Colandrea] doesn’t have enough support
I don’t think that’s a good narrative for us to have out there that he doesn’t have enough support
I don’t, just kind of part of the deal, right?
ut yeah, I mean I think everyone has people (being contacted)
Hopefully, you can sense my energy
I let the guys dance at the beginning of the fourth quarter. I will never do that again
I let the guys dance (before) the fourth quarter
I pulled them all up and they started running, I was kind of like ‘get back in’ and and part of our thing was like UCLA did it and I wanted, you know, coming off Indiana, I was like ‘hey we’re gonna play our tail off,'
Obviously we have a pretty devastated football team in there. A bunch of guys that showed up and competed. Second week in a row just came up short
I thought he made a bunch of big plays when he wanted to
I filmed that not this past summer but the summer before
Those guys know who it is, but we’ll probably keep it internal this week.
Anthony would play for us right now
Every single time you're going to see Anthony scramble. He's looking to throw the ball. He’s not looking to go out of bounds or go down or take a sack.
It will allow him to call the game without a conscience and just go attack
Honestly, it can break some guys
You get to play at Nebraska
You really can't waste a day
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
12th-best Nebraska tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Mickey Joseph (2022).
| Season | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 5-7 | 7-6 | 7-6 | 5-3 | |
| Postseason | — | W bowl | L bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||
| OC | Marcus Satterfield | Marcus Satterfield / Glenn Thomas | Dana Holgorsen / Glenn Thomas | Dana Holgorsen / Glenn Thomas | |
| DC | Tony White | Tony White | John Butler | Rob Aurich | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | 26 | 46 | 40 | 60 | |
| Defense | 81 | 67 | 6 | 76 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | 28.5 | 45.2 | 41.0 | 44.7 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 27.3 | 42.9 | 46.7 | 41.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 28.6 | 35.1 | 32.4 | 47.1 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits younger transfers than most — more of a development bet.
1 player-season honored (All-America / national award): Emmett Johnson (2025)
8th-best Baylor tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Jim Grobe (2016) · succeeded by Dave Aranda (2020–now).
| Season | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 1-11 | 7-6 | 11-3 | |
| Postseason | — | W bowl | L bowl | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | Glenn Thomas / Jeff Nixon | Glenn Thomas / Jeff Nixon | Glenn Thomas / Jeff Nixon | |
| DC | Phil Snow | Phil Snow | Phil Snow | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 31 | 83 | 57 | |
| Defense | 33 | 8 | 83 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 43.8 | 48.7 | 46.7 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 46.7 | 42.5 | 47.8 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 37.8 | 32.6 | 28.9 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
5 NFL Draft picks: Jalen Hurd (2019), Denzel Mims (2020), James Lynch (2020), Bravvion Roy (2020), Clay Johnston (2020)
5th-best Temple tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Steve Addazio (2011–2012) · succeeded by Geoff Collins (2017–2018).
| Season | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 2-10 | 6-6 | 10-4 | 10-3 | |
| Postseason | — | — | L bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||
| OC | — | Marcus Satterfield | Marcus Satterfield | Glenn Thomas | |
| DC | — | Phil Snow | Phil Snow | Phil Snow | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | 80 | 2 | 36 | 60 | |
| Defense | 32 | 96 | 83 | 89 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | 48.3 | 54.2 | 38.5 | 36.7 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 36.5 | 42.5 | 37.5 | 34.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 39.4 | 26.2 | 27.5 | 31.4 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
6 NFL Draft picks: Tavon Young (2016), Matt Ioannidis (2016), Tyler Matakevich (2016), Haason Reddick (2017), Dion Dawkins (2017), Nate Hairston (2017)
Wins at programs this site tracks, 1936–present — one consistent count for every coach, not each program’s own historically reported total.
3rd all-time at Temple
The data leans positive, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
+8.4 pts at Temple · #258 of 1290 · top quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.
