Rankings
BOA Team Profile
Northern Illinois
Mountain West · Current BOA team profile
BOA Rank
#132
Power Rating
1258.1
Ranking score 1219.8 · résumé -59.7
Offense
4.7
#134 nationally · 4th percentile
Defense
15.0
#124 nationally · 11th percentile
Schedule Strength
25.5
#103 nationally · 26th percentile
Recent Form
21.7
National Component Profile
How Northern Illinois compares with the FBS
138-team active BOA publication
Offensive Strength
4.7
#134 nationally4th percentile
Defensive Strength
15.0
#124 nationally11th percentile
Schedule Strength
25.5
#103 nationally26th 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
-0.330
Play-weighted
Season Success Rate
4.5%
Play-weighted
Season Explosiveness
1.020
Play-weighted
Points / Opportunity
0.00
Opportunity-weighted
Latest advanced game
Week 1 · at Iowa
0–40 · Data quality: advanced box
Source: CFBD advanced box
Efficiency · EPA / Play
—
Value created per play
Consistency · Success Rate
4.5%
How often the offense stayed on schedule
Big-Play Threat · Explosiveness
1.020
Damage created on successful plays
Disruption · Havoc Rate
17.6%
Negative events created by the defense
Field Position
Own 23
BOA Expected Win Share
1.0%
How often this performance profile would be expected to win
Advanced details
PPA / Play
-0.330
Pass PPA / Play
-0.274
Rush PPA / Play
-0.323
Cumulative PPA
-7.30
Standard-Down Success
7.7%
Passing-Down Success
0.0%
Stuff Rate
45.5%
Power Success
0.0%
Line Yards / Rush
1.40
2nd-Level Yards / Rush
0.10
Open-Field Yards / Rush
0.00
Points / Opportunity
0.00
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
0.167
24 attempts
Success Rate
29.2%
7 successful
aDOT
9.9
100% air-yard coverage
Explosiveness
1.802
96% location coverage
PPA Allowed
-0.017
Opponent passing production
Success Allowed
42.5%
Opponent success rate
aDOT Allowed
7.9
100% coverage
Expl. Allowed
1.087
Opponent explosiveness
Passing PPA by game
Field View
Northern Illinois passing map
Deep ↑
Behind LOS ↓
Behind LOS ↓
Deep
Left
1att
Comp 0%
YPA 0.0
PPA -1.125
Success 0%
aDOT 28.0
YAC —
Middle
2att
Comp 0%
YPA 0.0
PPA -0.887
Success 0%
aDOT 35.5
YAC —
Right
0att
Comp —
YPA —
PPA 0.000
Success 0%
aDOT —
YAC —
Short
Short
Left
11att
Comp 64%
YPA 6.6
PPA 0.686
Success 36%
aDOT 7.6
YAC 25
Middle
3att
Comp 33%
YPA 6.7
PPA 0.380
Success 33%
aDOT 10.0
YAC 6
Right
6att
Comp 83%
YPA 3.3
PPA -0.044
Success 33%
aDOT 0.0
YAC 24
Line of Scrimmage
Behind LOS
Left
Play-level
charting only
charting only
Middle
Play-level
charting only
charting only
Right
Play-level
charting only
charting only
Backfield / screen area
Unclassified: 1 attempts · 0% comp · -1.507 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.
Week 0
#128
1319.9
Week 0
#128
1319.9
+0.0 rating
No rank change
Week 1
#127
1319.9
-0.0 rating
▲ 1 spots
Week 1
#80
1316.9
-2.9 rating
▲ 47 spots
Rating History
Each bar shows that week's rating relative to this team's highest published rating.
Week 01319.9
Week 01319.9
Week 11319.9
Week 11316.9
Week 21316.9
Week 21298.1
Week 21298.1
Week 21298.1
Week 31298.1
Week 31298.1
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Week 41296.8
Week 41296.8
Week 41297.0
Week 41279.5
Week 41279.5
Week 51258.1
Week 51258.1
2026 Model Schedule
Week 1
at Iowa#10 BOA
Final 40–0
Week 3
at Arizona#25 BOA
Final 42–17
Week 4
at Georgia State#112 BOA
Final 35–14
Week 6
vs Air Force#104 BOA
No active forecast
Week 7
at Wyoming#120 BOA
No active forecast
Week 8
vs Hawai'i#114 BOA
No active forecast
Week 9
at UNLV#71 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.