Putting Up Numbers· college football

Akron’s rushing yards with Brayden Roggow and without Brayden Roggow

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Akron was 26.4 yards under with Brayden Roggow and 1.5 yards over without Brayden Roggow over its last 25 games, 6 games against 17. The plain averages are 116.2 and 145.7, a difference of 29.5. All 6 night games were without Brayden Roggow. Both opponents outside the major colleges were without Brayden Roggow. All 3 games after a bye were without Brayden Roggow.

Brayden Roggow, quarterback: 1,434 passing yards, 208 pass attempts and 123 completions in 11 of those 25 games.

rushing yards a game over expected

A −27.9 difference in rushing yards over expected with Brayden Roggow vs without Brayden Roggow is about what you’d expect.

A −29.5 difference in rushing yards with Brayden Roggow vs without Brayden Roggow is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Brayden Roggowwithout Brayden Roggow
Akron’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Brayden Roggow or without Brayden Roggow
SideDateGameResultrushing yardsExpected
Oct 26, 2024vsEastern MichiganW220133.4
Nov 2, 2024vsBuffaloL74133.5
Nov 13, 2024@Northern IllinoisL51102.7
Nov 19, 2024@Kent StateW279197.6
Nov 26, 2024vsToledoW107132.7
Aug 28, 2025vsWyomingL92145.3
Sep 6, 2025@NebraskaL113122.4
Sep 13, 2025@UABL159108.6
Sep 20, 2025vsDuquesneW269—
Sep 27, 2025@ToledoL5884.6
Oct 4, 2025vsCentral MichiganW167125.3
Oct 11, 2025vsMiami (OH)L62117.7
Oct 18, 2025@Ball StateL128135.3
Oct 25, 2025@BuffaloW100158.9
Nov 4, 2025vsUMassW243173.6
Nov 11, 2025vsKent StateL106169.8
Nov 18, 2025@Bowling GreenW148110.0
Sep 3, 2026@Wake ForestL15181.1
Sep 12, 2026vsRRobert MorrisW241—
Sep 19, 2026@MinnesotaL51142.7
Sep 26, 2026vsUNLVL107174.9
Oct 3, 2026@Central MichiganL160156.6
Oct 10, 2026vsEastern MichiganL143154.7
Oct 17, 2026@Miami (OH)L8997.7
Oct 24, 2026@Kent StateL147128.5

Method

Read against .

  • Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every game of its season between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, plus 3.8 in 2024, plus 5.9 in 2025, plus 8.0 in 2026 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 75% in 2024, 77% in 2025, 60% in 2026 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.
  • Duquesne, Robert Morris have no other game in the table, so those games have no expected number and sit out the second figure.
  • Who played is read from the schools’ box scores’ participation lists for 20 of these 25 games; in the other 5 a player is counted as in them when the box score has a stat for him.
  • 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.