Florida International
1-1Conference USA · Willie Simmons, year 2 (8-7) · Pitbull Stadium · 20,000 · 18,202 avg in 2026
LastW 33–20 vs Buffalo · Sat Sep 12 · JJ Kohl 367 pass yds, 3 TD, 19 rush yds
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Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
All 94 stats
FBS rankings · 2026 season · all stats vs 136 FBS programs
| Player | # | G | Cmp/Att | Pct | Yds | Y/A | TD | INT | Rate | ZPR | QBR | Adj ANY/A | Sack% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrambler · +0.41 EPA/play | 17 | 2 | 52 / 86 | 60.5 | 668 #9 FBS | 7.8 | 4 #36 FBS | 2 | 136.4 | 65 | 46.9 | 7.6 | 1.1 | |
Yards by week → ScramblerMakes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise. 4 of 13 QBs we've classified this way this season. Season receipt Rush usage11.3% bottom 35th percentile · FBS QBs, min. 80 attempts Rush yards / carry4.5 80th percentile · FBS QBs, min. 80 attempts Trait fingerprint Plays like View JJ Kohl's full player page | ||||||||||||||
| Player | # | G | Car | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | Stuff% | 10+% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -0.01 EPA/play | 1 | 2 | 23 | 80 | 3.5 | 0 | 15 | — | — | |
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| Player | # | G | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possession Receiver · +0.98 EPA/play | 2 | 2 | 13 | 186 #34 FBS | 14.3 | 2 #24 FBS | 45 | |
Yards by week → Possession ReceiverReliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive. The most common profile in its group this season — 37 of 58 classified this way. Played in 2 of 3 games this season · junior View Maguire Anderson's full player page | ||||||||
| +1.33 EPA/play | — | 2 | 9 | 141 | 15.7 | 1 | 68 | |
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| +1.11 EPA/play | 6 | 2 | 7 | 104 | 14.9 | 0 | 35 | |
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| +0.18 EPA/play | 7 | 2 | 8 | 80 | 10 | 0 | 18 | |
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| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | TFL | Sack | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tech Penetrator | 97 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 4 #9 FBS | 2 #26 FBS | 1 |
3-Tech PenetratorDisruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield. 8 of 27 IDLs we've classified this way this season. Season receipt TFL rate36.4% 93th percentile · FBS interior linemen, min. 10 tackles Plays like View Elisha Baldridge's full player page | |||||||
| 33 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 #30 FBS | 2 #26 FBS | 1 | |
| 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | Ast | TFL | Sack | PD | INT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 22 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | Tot | PD | INT | TFL | Sack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | |
| 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | |
| — | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 #43 FBS | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | FG M/A | FG% | XP M/A | Pts | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 2 | 3/3 | 100 | 3/4 | 12 | 36 |
| Player | # | G | No | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 2 | 5 | 207 | 41.4 | 49 | 2 | 1 |
Net average is unavailable — CFBD's punting feed carries gross yards only, with no return-yardage or touchback deduction.
| Player | # | G | No | Yds | Avg | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possession Receiver · +0.98 EPA/play | 2 | 2 | 6 | 37 | 6.2 | 0 | 11 |
2026 stat leaders · Florida International
through 2 games
2026 stat leaders · Florida InternationalJ.J. Kohl leads Florida International with 668 passing yards through 2 games.
How They Play · 2025Florida International fields a limited explosive, big-play offense behind a solid defense.
Percentile vs all FBS, based on this season's per-game production. Bar = where this team ranks — right is better.
Florida International reads strongest in explosive plays (top 24%) and rushing epa (top 32%); the crux lives in rushing epa allowed, where Florida International sits at the 32nd percentile.
offense · strengths lead
defense · higher bar = harder to play against
hidden math · special situations
Home-field advantage · Florida International · 2018–present · FBS opponents
Florida International is worth +4.0 points more at home than on the road.
Middle of FBS, 47th percentile of 133 programs
39% at home, 24% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (14–22 home, 10–32 away). Interval ±4.7.
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge — per-team modelling was tested and did not survive scrutiny (why) — and the books use about 3. Against the closing line, Florida International has beaten the number by −0.9 more at home than away over 67 games — inside the ±8.6 that many games can resolve. Results here cannot tell the flat number apart from the building, and that is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.
Pitbull Stadium seats 20,000 and has averaged 73% full (14,655, 16 games reported). Visitors face the 4th-longest trip of 135 FBS venues: a median 854 miles since 2018. The map isn't translating, though — the split above still reads middle of fbs. For the home side it is genuinely home ground: 49% of the 2026 roster (52 of 107 located players) grew up inside 100 miles of the stadium.
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 42 home games since 2018.
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Scheme claims
Fourth-quarter reliability, corrected
Florida International's 4th-quarter offense, before and after garbage time
Raw Q4 EPA/play ranks 34th percentile in FBS. Strip out snaps taken with a blowout margin and it climbs to the 39th — the correction is the finding, not a footnote.
Standard downs vs. passing downs
Does Florida International hold up once the down-and-distance turns against them?
46th percentile success on standard downs, 43rd on passing downs — little dropoff between the two — a schedule-independent identity.
View all FBS teams as a table
| Team | Standard-downs percentile | Passing-downs percentile |
|---|---|---|
| App State | 44th | 90th |
| Arizona | 92nd | 86th |
| Arkansas | 60th | 80th |
| Auburn | 75th | 55th |
| Ball State | 12th | 24th |
| Baylor | 40th | 96th |
| Boise State | 58th | 46th |
| Boston College | 27th | 56th |
| Buffalo | 7th | 14th |
| California | 9th | 25th |
| Central Michigan | 16th | 6th |
| Charlotte | 73rd | 83rd |
| Clemson | 1st | 19th |
| Coastal Carolina | 61st | 52nd |
| Colorado | 35th | 77th |
| Colorado State | 82nd | 91st |
| Delaware | 70th | 31st |
| Duke | 20th | 29th |
| Eastern Michigan | 52nd | 10th |
| Florida Atlantic | 43rd | 87th |
| Florida International | 46th | 43rd |
| Florida State | 28th | 65th |
| Georgia Southern | 24th | 45th |
| Georgia Tech | 58th | 44th |
| Hawai'i | 18th | 41st |
| Iowa State | 4th | 23rd |
| Jacksonville State | 65th | 82nd |
| Kansas | 70th | 35th |
| LSU | 33rd | 98th |
| Liberty | 14th | 59th |
| Louisiana | 19th | 92nd |
| Louisville | 96th | 70th |
| Memphis | 69th | 65th |
| Michigan | 2nd | 62nd |
| Michigan State | 62nd | 29th |
| Middle Tennessee | 87th | 68th |
| Missouri | 36th | 85th |
| Navy | 98th | 59th |
| Nevada | 77th | 52nd |
| New Mexico State | 45th | 75th |
| Norfolk State | 16th | 9th |
| North Dakota State | 86th | 27th |
| North Texas | 49th | 68th |
| Ohio | 38th | 17th |
| Ohio State | 90th | 40th |
| Oklahoma State | 41st | 49th |
| Ole Miss | 94th | 50th |
| Oregon | 35th | 33rd |
| Oregon State | 10th | 38th |
| Pittsburgh | 30th | 76th |
| Purdue | 83rd | 88th |
| Rutgers | 30th | 71st |
| Sacramento State | 23rd | 14th |
| Sam Houston | 78th | 61st |
| San Diego State | 4th | 40th |
| San José State | 54th | 22nd |
| South Alabama | 50th | 73rd |
| South Florida | 91st | 52nd |
| Stanford | 76th | 15th |
| Syracuse | 48th | 64th |
| TCU | 93rd | 8th |
| Tennessee | 65th | 78th |
| Texas | 72nd | 94th |
| Texas A&M | 85th | 72nd |
| Texas Tech | 88th | 48th |
| Troy | 22nd | 59th |
| Tulane | 31st | 2nd |
| Tulsa | 56th | 1st |
| UAB | 65th | 81st |
| UNLV | 51st | 7th |
| USC | 97th | 99th |
| UTSA | 99th | 29th |
| Utah State | 4th | 93rd |
| Vanderbilt | 80th | 12th |
| Wake Forest | 56th | 97th |
| Washington | 81st | 4th |
| Washington State | 8th | 3rd |
| Western Kentucky | 25th | 34th |
| Western Michigan | 39th | 20th |
| Wisconsin | 13th | 18th |
| Wyoming | 65th | 36th |
Halftime identity
Florida International by half
1st-half offense ranks 29th percentile in FBS; 2nd-half, 43rd — competitive snaps only, garbage time excluded from both halves.
Tendency drift
Season by season
How Florida International’s current staff calls plays, year over year
Pass defense by zone
Pass-depth identity
What this team throws, and gives up, by depth.
On short throws (≤19 air yards), Florida International’s passing game completes a completion rate below the FBS mean (66.2% vs 68.3% league-wide, shrunk toward the mean for its 75-play sample) — mid-pack, 13 of 41 qualifying offenses.
We won’t show a deep-ball (20+ air yards) leaderboard here, on either side of the ball: even a full season of charted plays gives most teams well under 30 deep attempts — too thin to tell a real tendency from noise, so we won’t guess. Same refusal for yards-after-catch allowed and where a team’s attempts land by zone: both measured and both came back statistically indistinguishable from season-to-season noise.
Ratings
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Matched on how the programs are built — tier, prestige band, kind of fanbase, conference, voice and roster size — not on this season's stats. A calibration, not a prediction.
Conditions
81°F average kickoff temp; 17% of games had measurable precipitation; 8 mph average wind.
Based on 63 home games with weather data.