Georgia Southern
1-1Sun Belt · Clay Helton, year 5 (28-26) · Allen E. Paulson Stadium · 25,000 · 22,426 avg in 2026
LastL 7–22 at Clemson · Sat Sep 12 · Jakyri Jones 1 TFL, 1 INT, 7 tackles
Nextat Jacksonville State · Sat Sep 19 · 7 pm ET · AmFirst Stadium · Jacksonville State by 3 · series 1-0 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
All 83 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% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pocket Passer · +0.08 EPA/play | 7 | 2 | 55 / 86 | 64.0 | 525 #38 FBS | 6.1 | 2 | 0 | 122.9 | 34 | 51.4 | 6.0 | 4.4 | |
Yards by week → Pocket PasserBalanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile. 7 of 13 QBs we've classified this way this season. Season receipt Yards / attempt6.2 bottom 26th percentile · FBS QBs, min. 80 attempts INT rate0.0% 90th percentile · FBS QBs, min. 80 attempts Trait fingerprint Plays like View Max Johnson's full player page | ||||||||||||||
| Player | # | G | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possession Receiver · +0.37 EPA/play | 2 | 2 | 13 | 203 #28 FBS | 15.6 | 2 #24 FBS | 57 | |
Yards by week → Possession ReceiverReliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive. 37 of 58 WRs we've classified this way this season. Season receipt Yards / reception15.4 69th percentile · FBS WRs, min. 12 receptions EPA / play (adj)0.4 bottom 24th percentile · FBS WRs, min. 12 receptions Trait fingerprint Plays like View Ashton Hollins's full player page | ||||||||
| 81 | 2 | 8 | 98 | 12.2 | 0 | 27 | ||
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| Possession Receiver · -0.17 EPA/play | 19 | 2 | 14 | 82 | 5.9 | 0 | 29 | |
Yards by week → Possession Receiver· Boom-or-bustReliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive. his yards come in chunks — feast or famine 37 of 58 WRs we've classified this way this season. Season receipt Yards / reception6.2 bottom 5th percentile · FBS WRs, min. 12 receptions EPA / play (adj)-0.2 bottom 2th percentile · FBS WRs, min. 12 receptions Trait fingerprint Plays like View Josh Dallas's full player page | ||||||||
| Complete TE · +0.37 EPA/play | 87 | 2 | 8 | 53 | 6.6 | 0 | 15 | |
Yards by week → Complete TENo single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike. The most common profile in its group this season — 17 of 21 classified this way. Played in 2 of 3 games this season · senior View River Helms's full player page | ||||||||
| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | Ast | TFL | Sack | PD | INT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced Linebacker | 14 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Balanced LinebackerSolid in every phase without a signature dimension. The most common profile in its group this season — 46 of 84 classified this way. Played in 2 of 3 games this season · senior View Rashon Myles Jr.'s full player page | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 #30 FBS | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | |
| 18 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | |
| Player | # | G | Tot | PD | INT | TFL | Sack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 2 | 8 | 2 #43 FBS | 0 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 1 #22 FBS | 1 | 0 | |
| 21 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | FG M/A | FG% | XP M/A | Pts | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95 | 2 | 1/2 | 50 | 5/5 | 8 | 32 | |
| 97 | 1 | 0/1 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | No | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 2 | 14 | 596 | 42.6 | 48 | 1 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 2 | 5 | 33 | 6.6 | 0 | 22 |
2026 stat leaders · Georgia Southern
through 2 games
2026 stat leaders · Georgia SouthernRashon Myles Jr. leads Georgia Southern with 19 tackles through 2 games.
How They Play · 2025Georgia Southern fields a strong offense behind a porous defense.
Percentile vs all FBS, based on this season's per-game production. Bar = where this team ranks — right is better.
Georgia Southern reads strongest in rushing epa (top 32%) and epa / play (top 35%); the crux lives in rushing epa allowed, where Georgia Southern sits at the 3rd percentile.
offense · strengths lead
defense · higher bar = harder to play against
hidden math · special situations
Home-field advantage · Georgia Southern · 2018–present · FBS opponents
Georgia Southern is worth +7.2 points more at home than on the road.
Top tenth of FBS, 94th percentile of 133 programs
66% at home, 35% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (27–14 home, 17–31 away). Interval ±3.6.
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, Georgia Southern has beaten the number by 6.6 points more at home than away over 74 games — outside the ±6.4 that many games can resolve. This is one of the few buildings where the results say something the flat number does not.
Allen E. Paulson Stadium seats 25,000 and has averaged 85% full (21,280, 24 games reported). Visitors cover a median 395 miles to get here since 2018 — 65th-shortest of 135 FBS venues, inside the ordinary range. 10% of the 2026 roster (12 of 117 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 50 home games since 2018.
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Scheme claims
Fourth-quarter reliability, corrected
Georgia Southern's 4th-quarter offense, before and after garbage time
Raw Q4 EPA/play ranks 20th percentile in FBS. Strip out snaps taken with a blowout margin and it drops to the 15th — the correction is the finding, not a footnote.
Standard downs vs. passing downs
Does Georgia Southern hold up once the down-and-distance turns against them?
24th percentile success on standard downs, 45th on passing downs — a 21-point gap between the two.
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
Georgia Southern by half
1st-half offense ranks 47th percentile in FBS; 2nd-half, 21st — competitive snaps only, garbage time excluded from both halves.
Tendency drift
Season by season
How Georgia Southern’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), Georgia Southern’s passing game completes a completion rate above the FBS mean (68.5% vs 68.3% league-wide, shrunk toward the mean for its 83-play sample) — mid-pack, 20 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
73°F average kickoff temp; 9% of games had measurable precipitation; 5 mph average wind.
Based on 70 home games with weather data.