Bowls and playoffs: 1-0
2025Frisco BowlW 17-10
As of Fri Oct 23
Sat Oct 24, 4 pm ET ESPNU · Eastern Michigan is 4-4 · Hauser vs. Chris Creighton (not counting 1 game in seasons either team changed coaches) · Ohio’s chance to win: 86% (the site’s model)
82nd of 138 FBS head coaches
What they are talking about, week and season
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Ohio St is too talented even with a backup QB to not be in the CFP.
PSA: If you hike in/around Athens, please don’t be that guy.
Fan mood · last 3 weeks · more upbeat than 3 in 4 FBS fan bases
Percent: Ohio’s chance to win, from the site’s model. Records are through today. Networks as announced; the rest are set closer to kickoff.
Where Ohio stood among 138 FBS programs by stature after each game (1st is the highest; the CFB Zeitgeist ledger).
Each week as this page showed it at the time. Weeks marked rebuilt came before this page existed: they were built afterward from only what was known by the end of that week.
Watch the biggest plays from Ohio’s games, ranked by how much each moved the chance to win.
Sat Oct 24: Eastern Michigan
from 2 outlets
The Post (Athens)Football: Takeaways from John Hauser's Week Five press conferenceSep 29The Post (Athens)Football: Takeaways from John Hauser's Week 6 presserOct 6The Post (Athens)Football: Takeaways from John Hauser's Week 7 press conferenceOct 13from 5 outlets
The John Hauser Coaches' Show Returns Monday, August 31
Ohio University Athletics Aug 19 · 1 outlet
The Post (Athens) +1Takeaways from Ohio football head coach John Hauser’s Week Two Press ConferenceSep 8The Post (Athens)Football: Takeaways from John Hauser’s week one press conferenceSep 1Could another school hire him? What has he said?
Stories are headlines grouped by what they are about, counted through Oct 23.
I thought our support staff, Coach (Shumate), our strength coach and our administration did a great job
It's great to get the young guys in
I mean he's a good mix of throw and run
I think it's great before the game, and then as a coach, you just want to go play
I thought we played probably our best half of football in the first half against Central Michigan
It was a great Homecoming environment
They did a better job keeping us off track by not giving up as many explosive runs
I think as a coach you gain experience every week, win or lose, and then you just keep trying to get better
We never overlook anybody
I didn't see any hesitation with him and thought he ran just like he did through the first two weeks of the season
Having Duncan from a lot of aspects, not just the run game, but the passing game
When you block a punt, your chance of winning goes way higher
The field goal at the end of the game went our way
I think coach Cavanaugh has done a great job of getting everybody to play hard
I thought we were a pretty inexperienced team going into week one, and we've had a lot of new guys that have gained experience in our system
That's something we talk about every week, and I probably said it in here a bunch too
There's not a big difference between all of us
Starting fast, and our guys know that
Our offense, running backs and O-Line did a great job springing a bunch of those rushing yards
We've started slow the last two weeks as a team
We just got to get them in there and see them play, and that's the fine line as a coach, right
Offensively, their quarterback runs around, he makes plays
But I thought Matt (Vezza) played well too
Jacksonville State had a very good defense, but there was definitely some improvement in our run game
It does feel a little different, but it's still a similar feeling to being the defensive coordinator
I think any time you can control the line of scrimmage and run the ball, it's good for your offense
I think the challenges are keeping the edges to the defense and not seeing everything happening in the backfield because of all of the motion they're doing to try and throw you off what they're doing
CJ (Dawson), KJ (Sejour) and Eli (Thompson) will be back at some point this year
It was just such a great environment to get a win and keep the streak alive
Darren James-Hamilton, I mean, really got us back in the game with his kickoff return, and that kind of flipped the momentum for us
The offensive staff saw the look they wanted, and Riley (Neer) did a great job running the route
It was good to see our kicker hit two field goals, two career longs, Will Hyrszko, 42 and 45
I think they did a good job of loading the box at times, and they're big and strong up front
We have to take advantage of some of the light boxes, and do better up front
The quarterback is a really good player
So just you know his consistency
He's a great player
So just continuing to to solidify our starters and add depth
We don't have a Week One starter yet
Riley Neer had a great spring for us at wideout
Preston Bowman's done a really good job coming in and showing he can be explosive
We're emphasizing a lot of the same things, and I love the fact I get to go over to the offense now and have a relationship with the whole team now, which is exciting for me because I think getting to know those guys has been the biggest thing this spring
I think the transfers are all over the place on our roster right now
Hired into 25–25, Regional Program I. Rough match, not calibrated yet — ranked on what the job inherited alone. Coaches hired into this same job aren’t used as comps.
This winter
Our poach model, on his record so far, the win chances for every game he has left, his program, his pay and his background. Ranked against the 137 FBS head coaches this season. The zone words describe the market’s interest; none of them says he is leaving.
The biggest factors in his profile, each against the typical FBS head coach today. The games he has left are priced into the number, not listed here.
Tested on every FBS head coach from 2012 through 2025, each season scored by a model fit only on the seasons before it. From three games on, given one coach who left for a head-coaching job elsewhere or an NFL coordinator job and one who stayed, it ranked the one who left ahead 79 to 82% of the time; in a season’s first two games, 78%. Its average chance came within a point of the share who actually left. It counts a move a coach makes while he still holds the job; when his school ends it, that doesn’t count, even if another school then hires him.
Followed Tim Albin (2021–2024).
| Season | 2025 | 2026 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 1-0 | 5-2 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | |||
| OC | Scott Isphording | Scott Isphording | |
| DC | John Hauser | Kurt Mattix | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | 70 | 78 | |
| Defense | 62 | 60 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||
| 1st-down pass% | 37.6 | 38.0 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 24.0 | 29.8 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 51.4 | 38.1 | |
Outperforms his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits younger transfers than most — more of a development bet.
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
Ran more than the situation called for under Isphording.
57 run and pass snaps at Ohio, 2025–2025, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
No class below is fully his yet — every one was inherited or signed mid-transition, so none counts toward a verdict.
Transition — he was hired mid-cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his; inherited and mid-transition classes still show here, faded, but stay out of the average.
of his 2026 roster arrived on his watch — 51 of 156 players. The other 105 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 14% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2025–2026Counting players who have since left: 14% of the 51 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
is his biggest recruiting state: 20 of 33 signees (61%) across his 2025–2026 tenure, drawn from 13 states in all. Next: CA (2).
70% of his signees come from OH and its 5 border states (IN 1, MI 1, PA 1).
Off this map: 3 signees to the west (CA 2, NE) and 1 to the south (FL).
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
Defensive coordinator across 2 programs, 3 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.
