Furman
2-1Southern · Paladin Stadium · 16,000 · 8,147 avg in 2026
LastW 20–13 at Mercer · Sat Sep 12 · Trevor Short 2 sacks, 2 TFL, 2 tackles
Nextvs South Carolina State · Sat Sep 19 · 7 pm ET · Paladin Stadium · series 2-1 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
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Home-field advantage · Furman · 2018–present · FBS opponents
Furman is worth +43.3 points more at home than on the road.
Top tenth of FBS, 100th percentile of 133 programs
100% at home, 10% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (1–0 home, 1–9 away).
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, Furman has beaten the number by −2.2 more at home than away over 52 games — inside the ±8.3 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.
Paladin Stadium seats 16,000 and has averaged 54% full (8,564, 12 games reported). Visitors cover a median 163 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 39 of 40 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.
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Havoc & trenches
Havoc & trenches
Disruption, run-blocking, and down-and-distance efficiency.
Comparable teams
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Historical echo
Historical echo
Furman’s breakout has happened before — and 1 of the 4 closest programs couldn’t hold it.
Programs whose stature climbed in the same shape. The grey line is their run; the color is what came next for them.
An analogy on the shape of a program’s Zeitgeist stature arc — not a prediction. Interim calibration, medium confidence; matched among current FBS programs at a comparable level.
Conditions
73°F average kickoff temp; 6% of games had measurable precipitation; 7 mph average wind.
Based on 31 home games with weather data.