Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
FBS
Conference USA · WKU
Team Vitals
-0.2
power · 2026 · #186 D1
+5.5 / -5.6
off / def (higher = better)
0–2
2026 record
109
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 67%ile 0.692
- Offense (PPA/play) 43%ile 0.167
- Defense (PPA allowed) 60%ile 0.119
- Offensive success rate 57%ile 0.432
- Defensive success rate allowed 84%ile 0.368
- Explosiveness 43%ile 1.255
- Explosiveness allowed 20%ile 1.349
- Plays per game 72%ile 64.9
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 | Indiana FBS | AWAY | Indiana 98% |
| 2026-09-26 | Wk 4 | Mercyhurst FCS | HOME | Western Kentucky 93% |
| 2026-10-01 | Wk 5 | New Mexico State FBS | AWAY | New Mexico State 54% |
| 2026-10-08 | Wk 6 | Missouri State FBS | HOME | Missouri State 62% |
| 2026-10-14 | Wk 7 | Sam Houston FBS | AWAY | Western Kentucky 58% |
| 2026-10-27 | Wk 9 | Delaware FBS | HOME | Delaware 64% |
| 2026-11-07 | Wk 10 | Middle Tennessee FBS | AWAY | Western Kentucky 50% |
| 2026-11-14 | Wk 11 | Jacksonville State FBS | HOME | Jacksonville State 58% |
| 2026-11-21 | Wk 12 | Liberty FBS | AWAY | Liberty 61% |
| 2026-11-28 | Wk 13 | Kennesaw State FBS | HOME | Western Kentucky 54% |
Recent Results
| Date | Season | Wk | Opponent | Result | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | 2026 | Wk 2 | Georgia @ | L | 20–70 |
| 2026-09-05 | 2026 | Wk 1 | Nevada @ | L | 14–49 |
| 2025-12-23 | 2025 | Bowl | Southern Miss @ | W | 27–16 |
| 2025-11-29 | 2025 | Wk 14 | Jacksonville State @ | L | 34–37 |
| 2025-11-22 | 2025 | Wk 13 | LSU @ | L | 10–13 |
| 2025-11-15 | 2025 | Wk 12 | Middle Tennessee vs | W | 42–26 |
| 2025-11-01 | 2025 | Wk 10 | New Mexico State vs | W | 35–16 |
| 2025-10-21 | 2025 | Wk 9 | Louisiana Tech @ | W | 28–27 |
| 2025-10-14 | 2025 | Wk 8 | Florida International vs | L | 6–25 |
| 2025-10-03 | 2025 | Wk 6 | Delaware @ | W | 27–24 |
| 2025-09-27 | 2025 | Wk 5 | Missouri State @ | W | 27–22 |
| 2025-09-20 | 2025 | Wk 4 | Nevada vs | W | 31–16 |
Season by Season
| Season | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 119 | -85 |
| 2025 | 9 | 4 | 384 | 297 | +87 |
| 2024 | 8 | 6 | 349 | 345 | +4 |
| 2023 | 8 | 5 | 396 | 373 | +23 |
| 2022 | 9 | 5 | 510 | 328 | +182 |
| 2021 | 9 | 5 | 619 | 411 | +208 |
| 2020 | 5 | 7 | 228 | 304 | -76 |
| 2019 | 9 | 4 | 330 | 261 | +69 |
| 2018 | 3 | 9 | 253 | 334 | -81 |
| 2017 | 6 | 7 | 331 | 349 | -18 |
| 2016 | 11 | 3 | 637 | 344 | +293 |
| 2015 | 12 | 2 | 620 | 363 | +257 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajay Allen | RB | 71 | #106 | 2 | 121 rush yds · 2 TD · 3 rec |
| Justin Brown | DB | 69 | #319 | 2 | 9 tkl · 1 INT |
| Coleson Arends | TE | 66 | #92 | 1 | 2 rec · 18 yds · 1 TD |
| Jaylen Lewis | DB | 65 | #491 | 2 | 13 tkl |
| Nolan Imhoff team-inferred | OL | 62 | #25 | 1 | — |
| Brock Glenn | QB | 61 | #155 | 2 | 84 pass yds · 1 TD · 1 INT |
| Cameron Flowers | WR | 60 | #468 | 2 | 8 rec · 74 yds |
| Xavion Griffin | DB | 60 | #789 | 2 | 7 tkl · 1 PD |
| Jonathan Stafford Jr. | WR | 60 | #505 | 2 | 8 rec · 65 yds |
| Nathan Gonzales | DL | 58 | #949 | 2 | 5 tkl · 1.0 TFL |
| CC Ezirim | TE | 56 | #212 | 1 | 2 rec · 35 yds |
| Jaylen Wester | LB | 56 | #645 | 2 | 6 tkl |
| Lofton Howard | TE | 55 | #227 | 2 | 5 rec · 17 yds |
| D'Cambren Verrett | DB | 54 | #1188 | 1 | 5 tkl |
| Le'Kamren Meadows | RB | 52 | #606 | 2 | 69 rush yds · 1 rec |
| Rodney Tisdale Jr. | QB | 52 | #311 | 2 | 234 pass yds · 1 INT · 2 rush yds |
| Josaiah Knight | DL | 51 | #1550 | 2 | 4 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Christian White | DB | 50 | #1493 | 2 | 6 tkl |
| Mackavelli Malotumau | DL | 50 | #1644 | 1 | 2 tkl · 1.0 TFL |
| Zsacari Minnis | DL | 50 | #1664 | 2 | 4 tkl |
| Quincy Burroughs | WR | 50 | #972 | 2 | 3 rec · 40 yds |
| Venson Sneed | DL | 50 | #1669 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Jaden McGill | RB | 50 | #670 | 1 | 6 rush yds · 3 rec |
| Jordan Donald | LB | 49 | #998 | 2 | 6 tkl |
| Latrevion Thompson | DL | 48 | #1822 | 2 | 3 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Zach Smith | LB | 47 | #1095 | 2 | 5 tkl |
| Braxton Myers | DB | 46 | #1803 | 2 | 4 tkl |
| Zion Taylor | WR | 46 | #1163 | 1 | 2 rec · 19 yds |
| Jakeem Fletcher | DL | 46 | #2008 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Moussa Barry | WR | 45 | #1222 | 1 | 2 rec · 13 yds |
| Lataj Wright | DB | 43 | #2068 | 2 | 3 tkl |
| Karl Campbell | K | 42 | #285 | 1 | 2 XP · 2 pts |
| Tony Newsome Jr. | DB | 42 | #2145 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Michael Smith | K | 41 | #296 | 2 | 2 XP · 2 pts |
| Rylen Su'a-Filo | DL | 41 | #2437 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Zeiqui Lawton | DL | 41 | #2436 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Elijah Rumph | LB | 40 | #1399 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Elin Jones | DL | 39 | #2532 | 2 | 2 tkl |
| Dave Herard | DB | 38 | #2422 | 2 | 2 tkl |
| Devin Hamilton | WR | 38 | #1541 | 1 | 1 rec · 6 yds |