Sun Belt · Bryant Vincent, year 3 (8-19) · Malone Stadium · 27,617
LastL 35–38 vs SE Louisiana · Sat Sep 19 · Derrick Jameson 85 rush yds, 2 TD, 4 rec yds
Nextvs Florida Atlantic · Sat Sep 26 · 8 pm ET · Malone Stadium · Florida Atlantic by 13.5 · series 7-2, won the last 4 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 22 · through week 3
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 5 | #153 | #132 | +28.5✗ | @Mississippi State | L 13–62 147 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #162 | #55 | +9.5✓ | @UAB | L 20–26 131 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #161 | #153 | -9.5✗ | SE Louisiana | L 35–38 135 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 4 | Sep 27 | #172 | #117 | +13.5 | Florida Atlantic | |||
| 5 | Oct 3 | #174 | #66 | @South Alabama | ||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | Louisiana Tech | ||||||
| 8 | Oct 24 | @Troy | ||||||
| 9 | Oct 31 | Southern Miss | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 7 | @Arkansas State | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 13 | Louisiana | ||||||
| 12 | Nov 21 | @App State | ||||||
| 13 | Nov 28 | Marshall |
| Date | Opp | Result | Yds | TO | TOP | EPA/play | Success% | Explosive% | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19 | SE Louisiana | L 35–38 | 511 | 3 | 33:29 | -0.082 | 51.9% | 115.4% | Best success rate |
| Sep 12 | @UAB | L 20–26 | 257 | 1 | 28:07 | -0.178 | 44.4% | 78.3% | Season-low EPA/play |
| Sep 5 | @Mississippi State | L 13–62 | 278 | 0 | 31:47 | -0.025 | 29.6% | 105.3% | Season-high EPA/play |
| Season average (3 games) | 349 | 1.3 | -0.095 | 42.0% | 99.7% | ||||
ULM is the north-Louisiana program that walked into Little Rock and stunned #8 Arkansas in overtime — one perfect Saturday it has spent a decade-plus trying to feel again.
ULM fans know the power-conference programs schedule them as a paycheck and a guaranteed win — and they'll remind you the Warhawks once cashed that check the other way, walking into an SEC stadium…
The season in chapters
What it is like to watch them2025 · 3-9 · last season
✓ measured from 12 games · ranks are among Sun Belt teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Hibernating. 0-10 over the last 10, and lost the last ten.
Next Sep 27
vs Florida Atlantic · at home
~ our read on style
Market outlook
Sportsbook consensus · best odds across multiple books · 2026-09-22
the open questiondo the new coordinators fit the roster?
Bryant Vincent enters his third season at UL Monroe with a 3-9 losing record to overcome, as the program's identity hinges on reclaiming its historic upset legacy and reshaping its struggling units.
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Jonathan Bibbs is a real deep-ball threat -- a high share of his targets come on throws past the sticks.
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JP Coulter is a real deep-ball threat -- a high share of his targets come on throws past the sticks.
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Zachary Palmer-Smith does NOT see a usage spike in garbage time -- his workload holds steady regardless of score.
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UL Monroe enters 2025 at No. 131 in SP+ — the 9-spot drop under Bryant Vincent raises one question: how to overcome top-quintile production losses.
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UL Monroe enters 2026 — the 3-9 record and 1% returning production contrast sharply with the 2012 Alabama upset that defined its identity, raising questions about whether the program can.
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Outcome band · ULM · 2026
Floor, base and ceiling come from the season-path projection, which plays out conference title games and the CFP — so a ceiling can run past 12 games.
The optimistic read: momentum, and the 'this is real' takes.
The analytical counter: rankings, results, and 'the hype is ahead of the tape' takes.
Nothing in our corpus yet — this door stays open for when there is.
UL Monroe enters 2025 rated No. 131 in SP+ (-21.6), down 9 spots from 2024. It is top-quintile returning production in FBS — 1% of production comes back. SP+ describes what the program HAS done, not what it will do. The season is the field test. The preview consensus leans in — but preseason ratings reward the recent past, not the season ahead.
The 'the projection is underselling us' read -- fans betting the season beats the preview number.
The 'the model has seen the tape' counter -- efficiency ratings reward what a program has actually done, not hope.
Nothing in our corpus yet — this door stays open for when there is.
Fan mood index · most recent r/cfb data
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ULM is the Sun Belt program whose 2007 program rename + 2012 Arkansas upset (plus a real 2007 upset of Alabama, 21-14) + Malone Stadium identity define what Monroe-North-Louisiana-football looks like.
SE Louisiana ends 20-year FBS win drought
Bryant Vincent's rebuilding room gave up a 38-35 loss to an FCS program that hadn't beaten FBS since 2003 — class rank #127 and a thin DL aren't just offseason footnotes anymore.
Top 3 commits
Recruiting Footprint · 2026
MS leads the 2026 class with 10 commits. National footprint reaching 10 states.
Where they recruit · 2023-2026
99 signees across 17 states, 2023-2026. MS leads the pull.
Miles from home · 2026 roster
The median UL Monroe player grew up 288 miles from campus.
Half this roster came from closer than that; half came from farther.
Straight-line distance from each player's listed hometown to Malone Stadium. Hometowns are placed at city-centroid precision, not street address — fine at this scale, but a player's true door-to-door number can differ by a few miles. 99 of 107 listed players have a geocoded hometown. Source: CFBD roster hometowns.
No high-engagement r/cfb discussions tracked for this program in the last year.
Getting hands on the ball but not cashing in: 9% of disruptions converted, vs. the ~19% league rate.
1 interceptions of 11 disrupted passes (10 deflected, 1 intercepted), 2026 only.
Winning the penalty battle: 13 penalties committed vs. 20 drawn on opponents, a 52-yard edge.
120 penalty yards committed vs. 172 drawn on opponents, 2026 season total.
Outcome band · ULM · 2026
Recruiting Footprint · 2026