Arkansas State — Sun Belt
HC
Butch Jones · Centennial Bank Stadium · Jonesboro, AR · 30,382 cap
PPA off / def
0.09 / 0.19
2025
Class rank
#85
class of 2026
Returning PPA
30%
returning production
2026 schedule
2025 results (7–6)
Statistical comps — 2025 Arkansas State's closest analogs
Nearest neighbors by z-scored success rate, explosiveness, run rate & havoc (offense + defense), 2015–25.
2025 leaders
Transfer portal — 2026 (25 in / 37 out)
Origins
Five conference titles in seven years across the 2010s under a rotating cast of coaches — Freeze, Malzahn, Harsin, Anderson — every one of whom left for a bigger job almost immediately.
Founded 1909 · A district agricultural school in the Delta · first football 1911 · defined by Blake Anderson
All-time record
All-time
255–333–7
1914–2025
Win %
43.4%
83 seasons played
Winning seasons
25
30% of seasons
By level: ii/iii 5–10–2 (1914–1954) · D-II 1–14 (1935–1963) · FBS 240–293–2 (1965–2025) · FCS 9–16–3 (1982–1989)
| Best seasons | W | L | Conference |
|---|
| 1975 | 11 | 0 | Southland |
| 2012 | 10 | 3 | Sun Belt |
| 2011 | 10 | 3 | Sun Belt |
| 2015 | 9 | 4 | Sun Belt |
| 2024 | 8 | 5 | Sun Belt |
Season records from CollegeFootballData, which is why the span starts at 1914 — that is where its coverage of this program begins, not necessarily the first year it fielded a team.
Play-calling tendencies (2025 · garbage time excluded)
| Situation | Plays | Run % | Success % | Nat'l | Avg yds | Expl % |
|---|
| 1st down | 403 | 52% |
44% | 70 of 136 | 5.3 | 11% |
| 2nd down | 303 | 37% |
39% | 93 of 136 | 5.1 | 10% |
| 3rd & short (≤3) | 52 | 65% |
65% | — | 4.3 | 12% |
| 3rd & medium (4–7) | 63 | 14% |
35% | — | 4.0 | 2% |
| 3rd & long (8+) | 75 | 17% |
27% | — | 7.5 | 20% |
| 4th down | 23 | 30% |
70% | — | 4.5 | 9% |
161 drives · 32% ended in points · 7.4 plays and 39.4 yards per drive · 0.56 PPA per drive
Success: 50% of yardage needed on 1st, 70% on 2nd, 100% on 3rd/4th. Explosive: 12+ yd rush / 16+ yd pass. National rank is shown only for 1st and 2nd down, where every team has 100+ plays; the later buckets average 18-43 and a rank there would be noise.
League leaderboard →Most valuable plays (by PPA, 2025)
| Wk | Opp | Play | Yds | PPA |
|---|
| CFP | Missouri State |
(03:02) No Huddle-Shotgun #1 J.Raynor pass complete deep left to #7 C.Rucker caught at MOS… |
71 | 7.04 |
| 1 | Southeast Missouri State |
Jaylen Raynor pass complete to Chauncy Cobb for 45 yds to the SEMO 30 for a 1ST down South… |
45 | 4.31 |
| 1 | Southeast Missouri State |
Devin Spencer run for 43 yds for a TD (Clune Van Andel KICK) |
43 | 4.29 |
| 4 | Kennesaw State |
Jaylen Raynor pass complete to Hunter Summers for 28 yds for a TD (Clune Van Andel KICK) |
28 | 4.08 |
| 3 | Iowa State |
Jaylen Raynor pass complete to Jaylen Bonelli for 34 yds to the ISU 39 for a 1ST down |
34 | 3.87 |
| 6 | Texas State |
Jaylen Raynor pass complete to Kenyon Clay for 27 yds to the TXST 35 for a 1ST down |
27 | 3.82 |
| 14 | App State |
(02:00) No Huddle-Shotgun #1 J.Raynor pass complete deep middle to #16 C.Cobb caught at AP… |
43 | 3.65 |
| 1 | Southeast Missouri State |
Jaylen Raynor pass complete to Tyler Little for 28 yds to the SEMO 33 for a 1ST down |
28 | 3.62 |