Key stats
Each bar is the team’s national rank as a percentile. A longer bar is better, for defense too.
All 4 stats
FBS rankings · 2026 season · all stats vs 136 FBS programs
Player stats
No player stats logged for this program yet — stats appear once the season is underway.
How scary each game got
Illinois State lost to South Dakota State after being 68% to win; the closest win was at Northern Illinois, down to 21%
Tap a game for its score and win chances.
Each bar runs from the lowest to the highest chance our model gave Illinois State during that game; the thick mark is where it started. Numbers are the game week.
Home-field advantage · 2018–present · FBS opponents
Illinois State is worth −4.4 points more at home than on the road.
Bottom tenth of FBS, 0th percentile of 133 programs
14% at home, 31% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (1-6 home, 4-9 away). Interval ±6.6.
The stadium and how the home edge is measured
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge. The books use about 3. Per-team versions were tested and did not hold up (why). Against the closing line, Illinois State has beaten the number by −6.4 more at home than away over 56 games. That is inside the ±7.9 that many games can resolve, so the results cannot tell this stadium from the flat number. That is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.
Hancock Stadium seats 15,000 and has averaged 58% full (8,675, 14 games reported). Visitors cover a median 259 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 45 of 46 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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Scheme claims
How much of Illinois State’s number is the schedule?
Raw EPA/play through week 10 is 0.16; adjusted for opponent strength, it's 0.03. The widest gap came in week 2: 0.55 raw vs. 0.10 adjusted.
Havoc & trenches
Disruption, run-blocking, and down-and-distance efficiency.
Comparable teams
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