Sam Houston Bearkats
FBS
Conference USA · SHSU
Team Vitals
-5.4
power · 2026 · #248 D1
-4.3 / -1.1
off / def (higher = better)
0–2
2026 record
106
roster (2026)
Team profile 2025 · vs 136 FBS teams
Percentile against every FBS team, from 2025 play with garbage time excluded. No 2026 game has been played yet, so this describes last season.
- Win rate 3%ile 0.167
- Offense (PPA/play) 5%ile 0.002
- Defense (PPA allowed) 11%ile 0.258
- Offensive success rate 13%ile 0.363
- Defensive success rate allowed 5%ile 0.493
- Explosiveness 37%ile 1.234
- Explosiveness allowed 54%ile 1.253
- Plays per game 22%ile 57.4
median · bars right of it are above the FBS average · pace is a style, not a grade
Upcoming 2026
| Date | Wk | Opponent | Site | Model Lean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-19 | Wk 3 | Nicholls FCS | HOME | Sam Houston 76% |
| 2026-09-26 | Wk 4 | Texas Tech FBS | AWAY | Texas Tech 97% |
| 2026-10-08 | Wk 6 | Liberty FBS | AWAY | Liberty 73% |
| 2026-10-14 | Wk 7 | Western Kentucky FBS | HOME | Western Kentucky 58% |
| 2026-10-21 | Wk 8 | New Mexico State FBS | HOME | New Mexico State 57% |
| 2026-10-27 | Wk 9 | Missouri State FBS | AWAY | Missouri State 80% |
| 2026-11-07 | Wk 10 | Jacksonville State FBS | AWAY | Jacksonville State 78% |
| 2026-11-14 | Wk 11 | Kennesaw State FBS | HOME | Kennesaw State 59% |
| 2026-11-21 | Wk 12 | Middle Tennessee FBS | HOME | Middle Tennessee 53% |
| 2026-11-28 | Wk 13 | Florida International FBS | AWAY | Florida International 78% |
Recent Results
| Date | Season | Wk | Opponent | Result | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | 2026 | Wk 2 | Tulsa vs | L | 17–23 |
| 2026-09-05 | 2026 | Wk 1 | Troy @ | L | 21–24 |
| 2025-11-29 | 2025 | Wk 14 | Florida International vs | L | 16–56 |
| 2025-11-22 | 2025 | Wk 13 | Middle Tennessee @ | L | 17–31 |
| 2025-11-15 | 2025 | Wk 12 | Delaware vs | W | 26–23 |
| 2025-11-08 | 2025 | Wk 11 | Oregon State @ | W | 21–17 |
| 2025-10-31 | 2025 | Wk 10 | Louisiana Tech @ | L | 14–55 |
| 2025-10-15 | 2025 | Wk 8 | UTEP vs | L | 17–35 |
| 2025-10-09 | 2025 | Wk 7 | Jacksonville State vs | L | 27–29 |
| 2025-10-02 | 2025 | Wk 6 | New Mexico State @ | L | 10–37 |
| 2025-09-20 | 2025 | Wk 4 | Texas @ | L | 0–55 |
| 2025-09-06 | 2025 | Wk 2 | Hawai'i @ | L | 20–37 |
Season by Season
| Season | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 47 | -9 |
| 2025 | 2 | 10 | 213 | 454 | -241 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 309 | 266 | +43 |
| 2023 | 3 | 9 | 240 | 314 | -74 |
| 2022 | 5 | 4 | 165 | 187 | -22 |
| 2021 | 11 | 1 | 492 | 257 | +235 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 61 | 56 | +5 |
| 2019 | 7 | 5 | 383 | 213 | +170 |
| 2018 | 6 | 5 | 330 | 309 | +21 |
| 2017 | 12 | 2 | 606 | 437 | +169 |
| 2016 | 12 | 1 | 644 | 386 | +258 |
| 2015 | 11 | 4 | 616 | 421 | +195 |
Injuries
Not an injury report. College football has no league-wide mandated one, and the ESPN feed we poll has carried the same three players all season — so an empty table here means nothing has been reported to us, not that the team is healthy. Nothing on this page, and nothing in our model, uses it.
Player grades 2026 season
Box production, opponent-adjusted, ranked within position (50 = positional average). OL rows are team-inferred — college football publishes no individual OL box stats. Full leaderboard →
| Player | Pos | Grade | Pos rank | G | 2026 season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brody Henderson | DL | 79 | #94 | 2 | 11 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 2.0 TFL |
| Chris Reed | WR | 75 | #94 | 2 | 7 rec · 145 yds · 2 TD |
| Grady O'Neill | WR | 74 | #103 | 2 | 12 rec · 148 yds · 1 TD |
| Ishmel Atkins | DB | 71 | #254 | 2 | 7 tkl · 4 PD |
| Railyn Adams | DB | 68 | #351 | 2 | 13 tkl · 1 PD |
| Brian Bates Jr. | LB | 68 | #227 | 2 | 12 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 2.0 TFL |
| Justin Terrell | DL | 67 | #431 | 2 | 4 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 1.5 TFL |
| Landyn Locke | QB | 67 | #91 | 2 | 651 pass yds · 5 TD · 1 INT |
| Jerrian Parker Jr. | RB | 66 | #182 | 1 | 2 rec |
| Josh Alexander-Felton | DL | 63 | #668 | 2 | 4 tkl · 2.0 TFL |
| Caesar Magee | DB | 62 | #635 | 2 | 10 tkl · 1 PD |
| Elijah Groves | LB | 62 | #414 | 2 | 4 tkl · 2.5 sacks · 2.5 TFL |
| Dylan Frazier | DL | 61 | #788 | 2 | 4 tkl |
| Alton McCaskill | RB | 60 | #334 | 2 | 99 rush yds · 7 rec |
| Dean Ford | LB | 60 | #469 | 2 | 8 tkl · 1.5 TFL |
| Darrick Bledsoe III | WR | 60 | #497 | 1 | 4 rec · 26 yds · 1 TD |
| Max Whisner | TE | 59 | #171 | 2 | 5 rec · 37 yds |
| Tyler Bailey | DB | 59 | #839 | 2 | 8 tkl · 1 PD |
| Chauncey Chidi | DL | 58 | #978 | 1 | 4 tkl · 0.5 sacks · 0.5 TFL |
| Landan Brown | RB | 57 | #421 | 2 | 48 rush yds · 6 rec |
| Dravon Wilson | DB | 57 | #970 | 2 | 6 tkl · 1 PD |
| Jarra Anderson | DL | 55 | #1228 | 1 | 3 tkl · 0.5 sacks · 0.5 TFL |
| Zion Taylor | DL | 55 | #1239 | 2 | 2 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 1.0 TFL |
| Mike King Jr. | LB | 55 | #696 | 2 | 6 tkl · 0.5 sacks · 0.5 TFL |
| Tim Burns Jr. | WR | 54 | #782 | 2 | 4 rec · 63 yds |
| Justin Cottrell | DB | 53 | #1245 | 2 | 5 tkl · 1 PD |
| Jace Arnold | DB | 52 | #1383 | 2 | 7 tkl |
| Sam Carpenter | K | 51 | #193 | 2 | 1 FG · 5 XP · 8 pts |
| Kyan Berry-Johnson | WR | 50 | #979 | 2 | 4 rec · 32 yds |
| Cal Joseph | P | 50 | #137 | 2 | 12 punts · 43.4 yd avg |
| Kamari Maxwell | WR | 48 | #1086 | 2 | 2 rec · 38 yds |
| Darien Jackson | DL | 47 | #1892 | 2 | 2 tkl |
| Lyric Smith | DB | 47 | #1765 | 2 | 3 tkl |
| She'Fon Boyd | DL | 41 | #2402 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Caius Coy | DL | 41 | #2401 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Jalyn Stanford | DB | 41 | #2191 | 2 | 3 tkl |
| Matt Smith | TE | 38 | #494 | 1 | 1 rec · 5 yds |
| Tokyo Gordon | LB | 37 | #1500 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Stacy Bey | LB | 37 | #1499 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Brett Holloway | QB | 36 | #554 | 1 | 6 rush yds |