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BOA Team Profile

Buffalo

Mid-American · Current BOA team profile

BOA Rank
#122
Power Rating
1313.7
Ranking score 1284.0 · résumé -29.7
Offense
21.3
#110 nationally · 21st percentile
Defense
10.5
#131 nationally · 6th percentile
Schedule Strength
10.2
#124 nationally · 11th percentile
Recent Form
20.4
National Component Profile

How Buffalo compares with the FBS

138-team active BOA publication
Offensive Strength
21.3
#110 nationally21st percentile
Defensive Strength
10.5
#131 nationally6th percentile
Schedule Strength
10.2
#124 nationally11th percentile

Component ratings use a 0–100 national-strength scale. Higher offense and defense mean stronger units; higher schedule strength means a more difficult schedule.

Advanced Team Intelligence

CFBD advanced game performance

Measured game performance is displayed separately from BOA model ratings.

1 completed game with advanced data
Season PPA / Play
+0.046
Play-weighted
Season Success Rate
24.3%
Play-weighted
Season Explosiveness
1.800
Play-weighted
Points / Opportunity
5.00
Opportunity-weighted
Latest advanced game

Week 2 · at Florida International

20–33 · Data quality: advanced box
Source: CFBD advanced box
Efficiency · EPA / Play
—
Value created per play
Consistency · Success Rate
24.3%
How often the offense stayed on schedule
Big-Play Threat · Explosiveness
1.800
Damage created on successful plays
Disruption · Havoc Rate
15.0%
Negative events created by the defense
Field Position
Own 26
BOA Expected Win Share
—
How often this performance profile would be expected to win
Advanced details
PPA / Play
+0.046
Pass PPA / Play
+0.204
Rush PPA / Play
-0.219
Cumulative PPA
+3.30
Standard-Down Success
29.7%
Passing-Down Success
18.2%
Stuff Rate
28.0%
Power Success
0.0%
Line Yards / Rush
1.60
2nd-Level Yards / Rush
0.50
Open-Field Yards / Rush
0.30
Points / Opportunity
5.00
Pass EPA / Play
—
Rush EPA / Play
—
CFBD Passing Intelligence

Passing production + efficiency

PPA, success, explosiveness, aDOT, air yards, YAC and location availability.

full
Offense PPA
0.197
47 attempts
Success Rate
40.4%
19 successful
aDOT
9.4
100% air-yard coverage
Explosiveness
1.340
100% location coverage
PPA Allowed
0.129
Opponent passing production
Success Allowed
26.8%
Opponent success rate
aDOT Allowed
10.1
100% coverage
Expl. Allowed
2.204
Opponent explosiveness
Passing PPA by game
W1W200.150.30.450.6
Field View

Buffalo passing map

Deep ↑
Behind LOS ↓
Deep
Left
4att
Comp 75%
YPA 13.0
PPA 1.022
Success 75%
aDOT 25.8
YAC -17
Middle
2att
Comp 0%
YPA 0.0
PPA -0.767
Success 0%
aDOT 35.0
YAC —
Right
0att
Comp —
YPA —
PPA 0.000
Success 0%
aDOT —
YAC —
Short
Short
Left
17att
Comp 47%
YPA 3.3
PPA 0.231
Success 35%
aDOT 9.2
YAC 5
Middle
2att
Comp 50%
YPA -1.5
PPA -1.159
Success 0%
aDOT 3.0
YAC 0
Right
22att
Comp 64%
YPA 3.8
PPA 0.232
Success 46%
aDOT 4.8
YAC 20
Line of Scrimmage
Behind LOS
Left
Play-level
charting only
Middle
Play-level
charting only
Right
Play-level
charting only
Backfield / screen area
Unclassified: 0 attempts · — comp · 0.000 PPA/play

Behind LOS includes only passes with negative charted air yards. Missing play-level charting is shown as unavailable, never as zero.

Movement Intelligence

Rank + Rating History

Published BOA position and rating by week.

National board →
Week 0
#125
1331.6
Week 0
#125
1331.6
-0.0 rating
No rank change
Week 1
#124
1331.6
+0.0 rating
▲ 1 spots
Week 1
#78
1331.6
0.0 rating
▲ 46 spots

Rating History

Each bar shows that week's rating relative to this team's highest published rating.

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Week 21331.6
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Week 31303.5
Week 31313.7
Week 41290.3
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Week 41300.5
Week 41313.7
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Week 51313.7
Week 51313.7

2026 Model Schedule

Week 2
at Florida International#113 BOA
Final 33–20
Week 3
at Penn State#21 BOA
Final 55–13
Week 5
vs Western Michigan#80 BOA
Week 6
at Toledo#72 BOA
No active forecast
Week 7
vs Massachusetts#126 BOA
No active forecast
Week 8
vs Bowling Green#130 BOA
No active forecast
BOA rating context

BOA team profiles use the current published ratings and forecasts. They update automatically as new game results are processed.

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