Kennesaw State
1-1Conference USA · Jerry Mack, year 2 (11-5) · Fifth Third Stadium · 11,040 · 11,040 avg in 2026
LastL 17–31 vs Georgia State · Sat Sep 12 · Rickie Collins 260 pass yds, 1 TD, 1 INT
Nextat Tennessee · Sat Sep 19 · 7:45 pm ET · Neyland Stadium · Tennessee by 35.5 · 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% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.11 EPA/play | 1 | 2 | 40 / 58 | 69.0 | 416 #71 FBS | 7.2 | 2 | 1 | 137.1 | 51 | 58.3 | 6.9 | 1.7 | |
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| Player | # | G | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.48 EPA/play | 15 | 2 | 5 | 129 | 25.8 | 0 | 46 | |
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| +0.59 EPA/play | 11 | 2 | 5 | 72 | 14.4 | 0 | 44 | |
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| +0.11 EPA/play | 4 | 2 | 10 | 68 | 6.8 | 0 | 14 | |
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| -0.26 EPA/play | 13 | 1 | 7 | 52 | 7.4 | 1 | 16 | |
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| +0.19 EPA/play | 7 | 2 | 5 | 51 | 10.2 | 0 | 20 | |
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| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | TFL | Sack | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | Ast | TFL | Sack | PD | INT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 18 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 31 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 46 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | Tot | PD | INT | TFL | Sack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 13 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 #22 FBS | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 12 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 20 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | FG M/A | FG% | XP M/A | Pts | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89 | 2 | 1/1 | 100 | 5/6 | 8 | 29 |
| Player | # | G | No | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 2 | 9 | 375 | 41.7 | 55 | 6 | 0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.65 EPA/play | 21 | 2 | 5 | 116 | 23.2 | 0 | 47 |
2026 stat leaders · Kennesaw State
through 2 games
2026 stat leaders · Kennesaw StateBaron Hopson leads Kennesaw State with 12 tackles through 2 games.
How They Play · 2025Kennesaw State fields a limited explosive, big-play offense behind a leaky defense.
Percentile vs all FBS, based on this season's per-game production. Bar = where this team ranks — right is better.
Kennesaw State reads strongest in explosive plays (top 10%) and passing epa (top 32%); the crux lives in rushing epa allowed, where Kennesaw State sits at the 26th percentile.
offense · strengths lead
defense · higher bar = harder to play against
hidden math · special situations
Home-field advantage · Kennesaw State · 2018–present · FBS opponents
Kennesaw State is worth +10.4 points more at home than on the road.
Top tenth of FBS, 100th percentile of 133 programs
75% at home, 25% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (12–4 home, 5–15 away). Interval ±7.3.
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.
Fifth Third Stadium seats 11,040 and has averaged 90% full (9,981, 13 games reported). Visitors get here easily: a median 234 miles trip since 2018, the 14th-shortest of 135 FBS venues. Whatever the band above is picking up, it isn't the flight. For the home side it is genuinely home ground: 42% of the 2026 roster (44 of 104 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 39 of 44 home games since 2018.
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Tendency drift
Season by season
How Kennesaw State’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), Kennesaw State’s passing game completes a completion rate above the FBS mean (70.9% vs 68.3% league-wide, shrunk toward the mean for its 62-play sample) — mid-pack, 34 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.
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Conditions
70°F average kickoff temp; 10% of games had measurable precipitation; 7 mph average wind.
Based on 31 home games with weather data.