Kent State

Home-field advantage · Kent State · 2018–present · FBS opponents

Kent State is worth +9.3 points more at home than on the road.

Top tenth of FBS, 99th percentile of 133 programs

45% at home, 19% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (14–17 home, 10–42 away). Interval ±4.5.

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, Kent State has beaten the number by +3.6 more at home than away over 73 games — inside the ±6.6 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.

Dix Stadium seats 25,319 and has averaged 41% full (10,419, 20 games reported). Visitors get here easily: a median 183 miles trip since 2018, the 5th-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: 36% of the 2026 roster (38 of 106 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 38 home games since 2018.