Texas State — Pac-12
HC
G.J. Kinne · Bobcat Stadium (TX) · San Marcos, TX · 30,000 cap
PPA off / def
0.31 / 0.16
2025
Class rank
#74
class of 2026
Returning PPA
76%
returning production
2026 schedule
2025 results (7–6)
Statistical comps — 2025 Texas State's closest analogs
Nearest neighbors by z-scored success rate, explosiveness, run rate & havoc (offense + defense), 2015–25.
2025 leaders
Transfer portal — 2026 (18 in / 21 out)
Origins
The only president to graduate from a Texas public university walked this campus. Football moved up to the FBS in 2012 and won its first bowl in 2023.
Founded 1899 · Southwest Texas State Normal School, founded to train teachers · first football 1904 · defined by Lyndon B. Johnson
All-time record
All-time
118–174–1
1909–2025
Win %
40.4%
45 seasons played
Winning seasons
13
29% of seasons
By level: ii/iii 1–7–1 (1909–1921) · FBS 64–109 (1923–2025) · D-II 1–2 (1977–1981) · FCS 52–56 (1984–2011)
| Best seasons | W | L | Conference |
|---|
| 2005 | 11 | 2 | Southland |
| 2024 | 8 | 5 | Sun Belt |
| 2023 | 8 | 5 | Sun Belt |
| 2009 | 7 | 4 | Southland |
| 2014 | 7 | 5 | Sun Belt |
Season records from CollegeFootballData, which is why the span starts at 1909 — 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 | 377 | 59% |
41% | 99 of 136 | 6.7 | 12% |
| 2nd down | 298 | 57% |
51% | 7 of 136 | 7.5 | 15% |
| 3rd & short (≤3) | 51 | 76% |
65% | — | 5.8 | 14% |
| 3rd & medium (4–7) | 52 | 40% |
46% | — | 7.0 | 15% |
| 3rd & long (8+) | 55 | 36% |
24% | — | 7.1 | 18% |
| 4th down | 23 | 43% |
57% | — | 3.9 | 4% |
161 drives · 43% ended in points · 7.4 plays and 47.8 yards per drive · 1.80 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 |
|---|
| 12 | Southern Miss |
(06:16) No Huddle-Shotgun #8 B.Jackson pass complete short middle to #1 C.Dawn, Jr. caught… |
82 | 7.11 |
| 8 | Marshall |
Brad Jackson pass complete to Beau Sparks for 73 yds for a TD (Tyler Robles KICK) |
73 | 7.01 |
| 7 | Troy |
Lincoln Pare run for 62 yds for a TD (Tyler Robles KICK) |
62 | 5.81 |
| CFP | Rice |
(14:14) No Huddle-Shotgun #8 B.Jackson pass complete short left to #11 B.Sparks caught at … |
69 | 5.61 |
| 1 | Eastern Michigan |
Jaylen Jenkins 58 Yd Run (Tyler Robles Kick) |
58 | 5.44 |
| 7 | Troy |
Greg Burrell run for 59 yds for a TD (Tyler Robles KICK) |
59 | 5.38 |
| 2 | UTSA |
Beau Sparks 65 Yd pass from Brad Jackson (Tyler Robles Kick) |
65 | 5.24 |
| CFP | Rice |
(14:47) No Huddle-Shotgun #7 L.Pare rush middle for 63 yards gain to the RICE00 TOUCHDOWN,… |
63 | 5.05 |