Putting Up Numbers· college football

Akron’s pass attempts with Brayden Roggow and without Brayden Roggow

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Akron was 1.2 pass attempts over with Brayden Roggow and 1.9 pass attempts under without Brayden Roggow in 2026, 6 games against 1. The plain averages are 32.2 and 33.0, a difference of 0.8. Expected was 3.9 pass attempts lower with Brayden Roggow than without Brayden Roggow. All 4 conference games were with Brayden Roggow. All 4 second-half games were with Brayden Roggow.

Brayden Roggow, quarterback: 1,343 passing yards, 192 pass attempts and 112 completions in 9 games this season, 74% of Akron’s pass attempts in those games.

2 games without Brayden Roggow is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

pass attempts a game over expected

A −0.8 difference in pass attempts with Brayden Roggow vs without Brayden Roggow is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Brayden Roggowwithout Brayden Roggow
Akron’s games, 2026, each marked with Brayden Roggow or without Brayden Roggow
SideDateGameResultpass attemptsExpected
Sep 3, 2026@Wake ForestL3334.9
Sep 12, 2026vsRRobert MorrisW33—
Sep 19, 2026@MinnesotaL3926.8
Sep 26, 2026vsUNLVL2631.0
Oct 3, 2026@Central MichiganL3229.9
Oct 10, 2026vsEastern MichiganL2432.4
Oct 17, 2026@Miami (OH)L3837.8
Oct 24, 2026@Kent StateL3428.2

Method

Read against .

  • Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every 2026 game between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, minus 0.1 for the home team (the edge the fit finds once strength is in), nothing at a neutral site.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 60% of the difference the model predicts.
  • The two sides are the games before and after one date, so the shuffle moves any game between them.
  • Robert Morris has no other game in the table, so that game has no expected number and sits out the second figure.
  • Who played is read from the schools’ box scores’ participation lists, which name every player who entered the game.
  • With him means he was the team’s quarterback that game, at least half of its pass attempts; a game he left early or came into late reads as without him.