Marshall Thundering Herd
FBS
Sun Belt Conference · MRSH
Team Vitals
+5.2
power · 2026 · #121 D1
+3.8 / +1.3
off / def (higher = better)
1–1
2026 record
105
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 31%ile 0.417
- Offense (PPA/play) 52%ile 0.179
- Defense (PPA allowed) 56%ile 0.137
- Offensive success rate 59%ile 0.435
- Defensive success rate allowed 69%ile 0.387
- Explosiveness 3%ile 1.137
- Explosiveness allowed 7%ile 1.423
- Plays per game 75%ile 65.4
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 | Missouri State FBS | AWAY | Missouri State 57% |
| 2026-09-26 | Wk 4 | Gardner-Webb FCS | HOME | Marshall 88% |
| 2026-10-03 | Wk 5 | James Madison FBS | AWAY | James Madison 75% |
| 2026-10-10 | Wk 6 | Coastal Carolina FBS | HOME | Marshall 58% |
| 2026-10-20 | Wk 8 | South Alabama FBS | HOME | South Alabama 51% |
| 2026-10-31 | Wk 9 | Old Dominion FBS | AWAY | Old Dominion 64% |
| 2026-11-07 | Wk 10 | Georgia Southern FBS | AWAY | Georgia Southern 57% |
| 2026-11-14 | Wk 11 | App State FBS | HOME | App State 51% |
| 2026-11-21 | Wk 12 | Georgia State FBS | HOME | Marshall 62% |
| 2026-11-28 | Wk 13 | UL Monroe FBS | AWAY | Marshall 68% |
Recent Results
| Date | Season | Wk | Opponent | Result | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | 2026 | Wk 2 | Middle Tennessee vs | W | 28–26 |
| 2026-09-05 | 2026 | Wk 1 | Penn State @ | L | 0–45 |
| 2025-11-29 | 2025 | Wk 14 | Georgia Southern vs | L | 19–24 |
| 2025-11-22 | 2025 | Wk 13 | App State @ | L | 24–26 |
| 2025-11-15 | 2025 | Wk 12 | Georgia State @ | W | 30–18 |
| 2025-11-08 | 2025 | Wk 11 | James Madison vs | L | 23–35 |
| 2025-10-30 | 2025 | Wk 10 | Coastal Carolina @ | L | 27–44 |
| 2025-10-18 | 2025 | Wk 8 | Texas State vs | W | 40–37 |
| 2025-10-11 | 2025 | Wk 7 | Old Dominion vs | W | 48–24 |
| 2025-09-27 | 2025 | Wk 5 | Louisiana @ | L | 51–54 |
| 2025-09-20 | 2025 | Wk 4 | Middle Tennessee @ | W | 42–28 |
| 2025-09-13 | 2025 | Wk 3 | Eastern Kentucky vs | W | 38–7 |
Season by Season
| Season | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 71 | -43 |
| 2025 | 5 | 7 | 369 | 363 | +6 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 414 | 300 | +114 |
| 2023 | 6 | 7 | 296 | 373 | -77 |
| 2022 | 9 | 4 | 318 | 208 | +110 |
| 2021 | 7 | 6 | 429 | 309 | +120 |
| 2020 | 7 | 3 | 285 | 130 | +155 |
| 2019 | 8 | 5 | 335 | 325 | +10 |
| 2018 | 9 | 4 | 367 | 284 | +83 |
| 2017 | 8 | 5 | 347 | 259 | +88 |
| 2016 | 3 | 9 | 317 | 423 | -106 |
| 2015 | 10 | 3 | 407 | 231 | +176 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caleb Clark-Glover | DB | 82 | #50 | 2 | 20 tkl · 2 PD |
| Kelvon McBride | DL | 79 | #91 | 2 | 6 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 2.0 TFL |
| Toby Payne | TE | 71 | #49 | 2 | 9 rec · 61 yds |
| Nate Blanc | DL | 70 | #323 | 1 | 2 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 1.0 TFL |
| Kenyatta Hardge | DL | 69 | #331 | 2 | 5 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Cannon Lewis | LB | 68 | #228 | 2 | 17 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Daytione Smith | DB | 66 | #431 | 2 | 11 tkl · 1 PD |
| Xayvion Turner-Bradshaw | WR | 65 | #318 | 2 | 5 rec · 96 yds · 1 TD |
| Eddie Pleasant III | DB | 65 | #505 | 2 | 8 tkl · 2 PD |
| Braydin Ward | DL | 62 | #671 | 1 | 4 tkl |
| Jacarius Clayton | DL | 62 | #723 | 2 | 4 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Carlos Del Rio-Wilson | QB | 60 | #171 | 2 | 194 pass yds · 1 TD · 0 INT |
| Chase Ortiz team-inferred | OL | 59 | #38 | 2 | — |
| Terrente Hinton | DB | 58 | #883 | 2 | 10 tkl |
| Javae Gilmore | LB | 58 | #566 | 2 | 8 tkl |
| Pete Schuh | DB | 55 | #1091 | 2 | 7 tkl |
| Cole Funderburk | DL | 55 | #1238 | 2 | 6 tkl |
| Brayden Hall | DB | 54 | #1173 | 2 | 8 tkl |
| Cooper Heimbach | P | 54 | #104 | 2 | 14 punts · 45.3 yd avg |
| Mikailin Warren | DL | 54 | #1283 | 2 | 4 tkl |
| Adrian Norton | WR | 54 | #759 | 2 | 7 rec · 43 yds |
| Jo'Shon Barbie | RB | 53 | #568 | 2 | 49 rush yds · 4 rec |
| Owen Sweeney | WR | 52 | #865 | 2 | 4 rec · 48 yds |
| TJ Lester | RB | 51 | #640 | 2 | 12 rush yds · 1 TD |
| Josh Pierre-Louis | DB | 50 | #1525 | 1 | 5 tkl |
| Zah Jackson | DB | 50 | #1542 | 2 | 1 tkl · 1 INT |
| Cam Chmura | DL | 46 | #1979 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Zion Turner | QB | 46 | #407 | 2 | 67 pass yds · 1 INT · 15 rush yds |
| Charles McCartherens | DB | 46 | #1842 | 2 | 4 tkl |
| Kendell Anderson | DB | 46 | #1843 | 2 | 2 tkl |
| Philipp Davis | DB | 46 | #1866 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Chris Culliver | WR | 45 | #1224 | 2 | 3 rec · 14 yds |
| Jalen Marshall | LB | 44 | #1233 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Jorge Diaz Nicolas | K | 44 | #269 | 2 | 4 XP · 4 pts |
| Mekhi Lockhart | DL | 44 | #2206 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Khalil Wilkins | QB | 43 | #453 | 2 | 23 pass yds · 0 INT · 20 rush yds |
| Chason Clark | LB | 41 | #1372 | 2 | 3 tkl |
| Jaasai Simmons | LB | 39 | #1429 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Keydel Painter | DL | 36 | #2729 | 1 | 1 tkl |
| Tristan Lester | DB | 34 | #2582 | 1 | 1 tkl |