| Daily Blog •August 13, 2011 |
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Earlier this week I went over how all 120 teams have fared at home this decade and how they have fared on the road. Here are the results for all 120 teams combined.
120 FBS Home team records: 4625-2690 (63.2%)
120 FBS Away team records: 2642-3959 (40.0%)
That means that on the average teams in the FBS (1A) have a home winning % that is 23.2% greater than their away winning percentage. Now you guys know me by now. I cant leave things go at just that without having a few more questions answered. I wonder which teams play at a much higher level at home than they do on the road. This would be answered by taking the home winning % and subtracting the road %. Also which teams are true road warriors almost playing as well on the road as they do at home? Here are the results for all 120 teams for their home and away records this decades. I ranked them in order of biggest disparity between home and away % to the lowest.
Home/Away Differences
Rank |
Team | Home Win % | Away Win % | Diff |
1 |
Troy | 87.23% | 36.23% | 51.00% |
2 |
Arkansas St | 66.04% | 18.75% | 47.29% |
3 |
Kansas St | 70.59% | 29.79% | 40.80% |
4 |
Marshall | 72.41% | 31.67% | 40.75% |
5 |
Kansas | 62.12% | 23.91% | 38.21% |
6 |
Louisiana Tech | 64.71% | 27.27% | 37.43% |
7 |
Iowa St | 58.46% | 21.57% | 36.89% |
8 |
Virginia | 66.15% | 31.48% | 34.67% |
9 |
Texas Tech | 82.26% | 48.15% | 34.11% |
10 |
Utah St | 46.00% | 12.12% | 33.88% |
11 |
Iowa | 81.82% | 48.00% | 33.82% |
12 |
Colorado | 63.33% | 30.00% | 33.33% |
13 |
Arizona St | 67.16% | 35.29% | 31.87% |
14 |
Toledo | 74.14% | 42.37% | 31.77% |
15 |
San Jose St | 50.94% | 19.40% | 31.54% |
16 |
Connecticut | 69.35% | 38.18% | 31.17% |
17 |
Oregon St | 73.77% | 42.86% | 30.91% |
18 |
UTEP | 54.24% | 23.73% | 30.51% |
19 |
Akron | 54.90% | 24.62% | 30.29% |
20 |
Penn St | 75.71% | 45.65% | 30.06% |
21 |
Nevada | 71.67% | 41.67% | 30.00% |
22 |
Maryland | 71.88% | 43.14% | 28.74% |
23 |
UAB | 54.72% | 26.56% | 28.15% |
24 |
Arkansas | 72.22% | 44.19% | 28.04% |
25 |
Northern Illinois | 75.44% | 47.46% | 27.98% |
26 |
San Diego St | 50.85% | 22.95% | 27.90% |
27 |
Mississippi | 59.70% | 32.00% | 27.70% |
28 |
Missouri | 72.13% | 44.44% | 27.69% |
29 |
Hawaii | 76.54% | 49.02% | 27.52% |
30 |
Clemson | 73.13% | 45.83% | 27.30% |
31 |
Oklahoma | 96.83% | 69.77% | 27.06% |
32 |
Rice | 54.90% | 27.87% | 27.03% |
33 |
Indiana | 47.62% | 20.75% | 26.86% |
34 |
Baylor | 46.03% | 19.23% | 26.80% |
35 |
Wyoming | 49.15% | 22.41% | 26.74% |
36 |
Nebraska | 77.78% | 51.06% | 26.71% |
37 |
New Mexico St | 43.86% | 17.19% | 26.67% |
38 |
UCLA | 65.57% | 39.29% | 26.29% |
39 |
ULM | 50.00% | 23.88% | 26.12% |
40 |
Texas A&M | 65.67% | 40.43% | 25.25% |
41 |
Western Michigan | 59.26% | 34.43% | 24.83% |
42 |
SMU | 43.33% | 18.64% | 24.69% |
43 |
Southern Miss | 71.93% | 47.54% | 24.39% |
44 |
Houston | 63.33% | 39.29% | 24.05% |
45 |
USF | 73.77% | 50.00% | 23.77% |
46 |
Wisconsin | 79.71% | 56.00% | 23.71% |
47 |
Idaho | 40.00% | 16.42% | 23.58% |
48 |
UCF | 61.67% | 38.33% | 23.33% |
49 |
Utah | 84.48% | 61.40% | 23.08% |
50 |
Louisiana | 50.00% | 26.98% | 23.02% |
51 |
South Carolina | 66.67% | 43.75% | 22.92% |
52 |
Washington | 47.69% | 25.00% | 22.69% |
53 |
Middle Tennessee | 61.54% | 39.06% | 22.48% |
54 |
Colorado St | 56.36% | 33.93% | 22.44% |
55 |
Purdue | 61.19% | 39.22% | 21.98% |
56 |
California | 68.25% | 46.30% | 21.96% |
57 |
Cincinnati | 71.67% | 50.00% | 21.67% |
58 |
Syracuse | 49.21% | 27.78% | 21.43% |
59 |
Tulsa | 63.33% | 41.94% | 21.40% |
60 |
Memphis | 50.79% | 29.63% | 21.16% |
61 |
Kent St | 48.15% | 27.42% | 20.73% |
62 |
Oklahoma St | 69.70% | 49.02% | 20.68% |
63 |
Central Michigan | 59.62% | 39.06% | 20.55% |
64 |
FIU | 41.30% | 20.75% | 20.55% |
65 |
Tulane | 43.33% | 22.81% | 20.53% |
66 |
Michigan St | 63.24% | 42.86% | 20.38% |
67 |
Auburn | 79.45% | 59.09% | 20.36% |
68 |
Ohio | 54.72% | 34.38% | 20.34% |
69 |
Kentucky | 51.47% | 31.25% | 20.22% |
70 |
Illinois | 50.00% | 29.79% | 20.21% |
71 |
Louisville | 74.19% | 54.55% | 19.65% |
72 |
Temple | 42.86% | 23.33% | 19.52% |
73 |
NC State | 60.29% | 40.82% | 19.48% |
74 |
Fresno St | 74.14% | 54.69% | 19.45% |
75 |
East Carolina | 57.14% | 37.70% | 19.44% |
76 |
LSU | 85.92% | 66.67% | 19.25% |
77 |
Boston College | 76.92% | 57.69% | 19.23% |
78 |
WKU | 59.65% | 40.63% | 19.02% |
79 |
TCU | 87.93% | 68.97% | 18.97% |
80 |
Minnesota | 56.06% | 37.25% | 18.81% |
81 |
Air Force | 63.93% | 45.45% | 18.48% |
82 |
West Virginia | 80.00% | 61.54% | 18.46% |
83 |
Mississippi St | 43.08% | 25.00% | 18.08% |
84 |
Eastern Michigan | 32.00% | 14.29% | 17.71% |
85 |
Michigan | 72.86% | 55.32% | 17.54% |
86 |
Alabama | 73.61% | 56.82% | 16.79% |
87 |
BYU | 73.33% | 56.90% | 16.44% |
88 |
Boise St | 96.92% | 80.70% | 16.22% |
89 |
Florida St | 71.43% | 55.77% | 15.66% |
90 |
North Carolina | 52.38% | 37.04% | 15.34% |
91 |
New Mexico | 53.23% | 37.93% | 15.29% |
92 |
UNLV | 37.29% | 22.03% | 15.25% |
93 |
Stanford | 53.33% | 38.18% | 15.15% |
94 |
Ohio St | 90.14% | 75.56% | 14.59% |
95 |
Pittsburgh | 67.19% | 52.83% | 14.36% |
96 |
Oregon | 79.69% | 66.04% | 13.65% |
97 |
Florida Atlantic | 52.08% | 38.46% | 13.62% |
98 |
Florida | 81.82% | 68.29% | 13.53% |
99 |
Arizona | 48.48% | 35.29% | 13.19% |
100 |
Rutgers | 52.31% | 39.22% | 13.09% |
101 |
Wake Forest | 55.56% | 42.59% | 12.96% |
102 |
Tennessee | 71.43% | 58.70% | 12.73% |
103 |
Georgia Tech | 68.25% | 55.56% | 12.70% |
104 |
Bowling Green | 65.38% | 53.13% | 12.26% |
105 |
Washington St | 50.00% | 38.89% | 11.11% |
106 |
Virginia Tech | 83.82% | 72.92% | 10.91% |
107 |
Navy | 62.96% | 52.17% | 10.79% |
108 |
Miami, Ohio | 56.86% | 46.27% | 10.59% |
109 |
USC | 86.67% | 76.27% | 10.40% |
110 |
Northwestern | 55.74% | 45.45% | 10.28% |
111 |
North Texas | 40.38% | 30.77% | 9.62% |
112 |
Miami | 76.19% | 66.67% | 9.52% |
113 |
Notre Dame | 59.38% | 50.00% | 9.38% |
114 |
Vanderbilt | 32.31% | 23.08% | 9.23% |
115 |
Buffalo | 29.09% | 20.97% | 8.12% |
116 |
Duke | 22.58% | 14.55% | 8.04% |
117 |
Ball St | 46.30% | 40.63% | 5.67% |
118 |
Army | 30.91% | 26.00% | 4.91% |
119 |
Georgia | 80.95% | 77.27% | 3.68% |
120 |
Texas | 85.25% | 88.37% | -3.13% |
Troy St wins 87% of its home games and only 36% of the time on the road. That makes playing in Veterans Memorial Stadium a tough test. Of course Troy does play a lot of BCS non conference teams on the road and hosts some FCS or 1AA teams as well as the Sun Belt so that has something to do with the difference. I would expect the majority of the top 25 to be made up of non BCS schools who must take on the big boys away from home in money games. There are some surprising BCS conference schools in the Top 20 and most of those teams are ones that I equate as having solid home field edges and this bears that out. Kansas St wins 70.6% of its games at home but only 29.8% of the time on the road and their 40.8% difference is 3rd highest in the NCAA. Kansas wins 62.1% of their games at home and just 23.9% on the road. Penn St and Iowa have two of the tougher home stadiums and both are in the top 20 in terms of disparity between home and away records.
I have to admit before I produced the chart my first question was is there a team or teams in the NCAA that has a higher winning % on the road than they do at home? The answer is yes. Texas has actually won 88.4% of their true away games while winning just 85.3% at home (2-5 LY!). Teams that perform almost as well on the road as they do at home are Georgia, Army, Ball St, Duke, Buffalo, Vanderbilt and Notre Dame. Check the chart above for the exact percentages.
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