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Sun Belt · Bryant Vincent, year 3 (8-18) · Malone Stadium · 27,617

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The model#131 CFB ZeitgeistSP+ #138 (-33.2) · FPI #137
The marketno line yetvs SE Louisiana · our model 60% ULM · a number, not a pick

LastL 20–26 at UAB · Sat Sep 12 · Carl Fauntroy Jr. 1 sacks, 1 TFL, 1 INT

Nextvs SE Louisiana · Sat Sep 19 · 4:30 pm ET · Malone Stadium · series 3-6, won the last 2 · Game preview

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

Zeitgeist statureRegional Program VI#202 all-time– holding
one line from Regional Program V
The era · 2014 through 2025

The CFP Era

12 seasons inside the CFP era, no bids yet — the era the program is still trying to break into.

Era record 43-100 12 seasons
Best season 6-6 2018
TRAJECTORY · quality-score line · AP rank dotted · CFP bids marked · coach regimes ribboned
Program Quality AP Rank (inverted) CFP Appearance
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CHAPTERS · 12 seasons · tap to open the archive
'14 4-8 '15 2-11 '16 4-8 '17 4-8 '18 6-6 '19 5-7 '20 0-10 '21 4-8 '22 4-8 '23 2-10 '24 5-7 '25 3-9

ULM's 2014–2025 record is 43-100. The era is still being written; the CFP line is the one the program is arguing for.

Era win %
.300
Ranked seasons (AP)
0/12
Best AP finish
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Program outlook

In 2012, ULM trailed #8 Arkansas by 21 points and won in overtime. Kolton Browning accounted for 481 yards, the Warhawks shocked the whole sport, and north Louisiana had its Saturday. That was thirteen years ago.

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The Shock in Little Rock is the most important fact about ULM football, and not only because nothing since has come close to it. It matters because it is proof — verifiable, scorebook-permanent — that a program on the smallest budget in its league can walk into an SEC stadium and walk out with the result. That proof sits behind every ULM season whether anyone mentions it or not. The 1987 FCS national title predates the FBS era, but that too belongs to the canon: a north-Louisiana school that won a championship before the sport reshuffled the tiers.

Bryant Vincent's second season in 2025 went 3-9 (1-7 Sun Belt) — a step back from the 5-7 first year that started 5-1 before collapsing. Vincent is also carrying an interim athletic director hat, an unusual dual role for a coach at a program asking him to do more with less. The smallest budget in the Sun Belt is not a metaphor; it is the operating condition every roster decision gets made inside.

The 2026 question in Monroe is whether Vincent can build a team that wins more often than it loses, or whether ULM's modern identity stays defined by a single extraordinary Saturday. A bowl trip would be the program's first since the 2012 season. A winning record would be proof the Warhawks can do it for sixty games, not just sixty minutes.

On the field

ULM plays underdog opportunism — a scheme built around doing more with less, creating confusion, and staying in position for the upset. When the Warhawks are at their best, they run a ball-control offense that shortens the game and keeps them close long enough for the play that changes it. The 2026 roster is thin but the scheme is built for the role: a program that earns its wins the hard way, one disruptive Saturday at a time.

program outlook · as of 2026-06-14

All-time record · ULM

ULM has won 34% of its games since 1965 — 50% at home, 23% on the road.

167-317-3 all-time · 58 seasons · 1965–2026

Home 103-102-2
Away 62-212-1
Neutral 2-3
3 g 1960s
30% 1970s
43% 1980s
36% 1990s
32% 2000s
39% 2010s
25% 2020s

Coaching Era · ULM

Bryant Vincent

Bryant Vincent in year 3 of the rebuild. The methodology is taking shape.

Era Bryant Vincent · 2024–presentPrev: Terry Bowden (2021–2023)OC: Jesse MontaltoDC: Troy ReffettPrev DC: Earnest Hill (2024–2025)
The full CFP-era story →The full coaching lineage →
3 years · era

Program memory

What this program never forgets

Most weeks vanish. These didn’t.

The 1987 FCS national championship

Northeast Louisiana wins the I-AA title

2012

The Shock in Little Rock

ULM stuns #8 Arkansas 34-31 in overtime, rallying from 21 down

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Ladder finishHow far up the ladder this season got.

Season standing · 2026 · 0-2

ULM is 0-2 in the season's first weeks.

An early losing record — too few games to call it more than that.

Sub-FBSBuildingBowlRankedContenderPlayoff
Coaching historyEvery hire and departure on record, not just the current era.

Coaching history

  • Hired Bryant Vincent2024
  • Terry Bowden departs10-26, 3 seasons
  • Hired Terry Bowden2021
  • Matt Viator departs19-39, 5 seasons
  • Hired Matt Viator2016
  • Todd Berry departs29-45, 6 seasons
  • Hired Todd Berry2010
  • Charlie Weatherbie departs31-51, 7 seasons
Coordinator lineageOffense and defense under each coordinator.

Unit lineage

ULM’s offense and defense, by coordinator

FBS-relative efficiency percentile per season (2014–2026), same population as the Coordinator Mirror board. Dashed vertical lines mark a coordinator change.

Offense2014–2026
2014201620182020202220242026
2014–2015 · Steve Farmer2016–2019 · Matt Kubik2020 · Eman Naghavi2021 · Rich Rodriguez2022–2023 · Matt Kubik2026 · Jesse Montalto
Defense2014–2026
2014201620182020202220242026
2014 · Troy Reffett2015 · co-Travis Niekamp / co-Adam Waugh2016–2019 · Mike Collins2020 · Scott Stoker2021 · Zac Alley2022–2023 · Vic Koenning2024–2025 · Earnest Hill2026 · Troy Reffett
Elite (≥70th pct)AveragePoor (≤30th pct)
Gameday customsThe gameday customs unique to this program.

Rituals

Three gameday rituals — the ones outsiders never quite catch.

2012 Arkansas Upset

since 2012

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ULM upset #8 Arkansas (34-31 OT) in 2012 — one of the most-iconic G5 upsets of the BCS era. The win + the Todd Berry era + the Sun Belt G5 ascent narrative made the 2012 season program identity. ULM's Sun Belt run + the multiple bowl appearances + the 1987 FCS championship retroactively elevated.

1987 FCS National Championship

since 1987

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Northeast Louisiana (now ULM) won the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA national championship. The championship is the program's only national title + opened the path to FBS reclassification. The 2007 program rename (from Northeast Louisiana to University of Louisiana at Monroe / ULM) was the institutional identity reset.

Cultural identityWhat college football loses if this program didn't exist.
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