Putting Up Numbers· college football

Brad Jackson’s passing yards at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed quarterbacks, Brad Jackson was 26.9 yards under at home and 69.5 yards over away in 2026, 4 games against 3. The plain averages are 216.8 and 283.0, a difference of 66.2. Both ranked opponents were away.

3 games away is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

passing yards a game over expected

A −96.5 difference in passing yards over expected at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 12 times in 100.

A −66.2 difference in passing yards at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Brad Jackson’s games, 2026, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultpassing yardsExpected
Sep 5, 2026@TexasL150152.8
Sep 12, 2026vsUTSAL192205.3
Sep 19, 2026vsNorth TexasW268245.6
Sep 26, 2026vsIIncarnate WordW244—
Oct 3, 2026@San Diego StateL372253.9
Oct 15, 2026vsColorado StateW213272.6
Oct 24, 2026vsUtah StateW167224.2
Oct 31, 2026@Boise StateL327233.7

Method

  • Expected is what the opponent allowed quarterbacks in its other 2026 games, plus 9.1 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for quarterbacks that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s quarterbacks’ passing yards in his games, 94%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 102% of the difference the model predicts.
  • The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut in two where one date leaves the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.
  • Incarnate Word has no other game in the table, so that game has no expected number and sits out the second figure.