Putting Up Numbers· college football

Ball State’s penalty yards with Tyler Mizzell and without Tyler Mizzell

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Ball State was 3.9 yards under with Tyler Mizzell and 9.1 yards over without Tyler Mizzell over its last 25 games, 1 game against 5. The plain averages are 60.0 and 72.1, a difference of 12.1. All 3 home games were without Tyler Mizzell. Both opponents outside the major colleges were without Tyler Mizzell. All 4 nonconference games were without Tyler Mizzell.

Tyler Mizzell, quarterback: 260 passing yards, 38 pass attempts and 23 completions in 6 of those 25 games.

One game with Tyler Mizzell is one game, not a sample, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

penalty yards a game over expected

The games

with Tyler Mizzellwithout Tyler Mizzell
Ball State’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Tyler Mizzell or without Tyler Mizzell
SideDateGameResultpenalty yardsExpected
Oct 26, 2024vsNorthern IllinoisW5047.8
Nov 5, 2024vsMiami (OH)L4046.3
Nov 12, 2024@BuffaloL5744.8
Nov 23, 2024vsBowling GreenL8742.8
Nov 29, 2024@OhioL4352.1
Aug 30, 2025@PurdueL1846.9
Sep 6, 2025@AuburnL5746.0
Sep 13, 2025vsNew HampshireW56—
Sep 20, 2025@UConnL3243.7
Oct 4, 2025vsOhioW1542.9
Oct 11, 2025@Western MichiganL3145.0
Oct 18, 2025vsAkronW5049.2
Oct 25, 2025@Northern IllinoisL4047.2
Nov 5, 2025vsKent StateW4043.7
Nov 15, 2025vsEastern MichiganL4552.0
Nov 22, 2025@ToledoL3243.7
Nov 29, 2025@Miami (OH)L5043.0
Sep 5, 2026@Ohio StateL1560.6
Sep 12, 2026vsSStony BrookW99—
Sep 19, 2026@LibertyL10758.0
Sep 26, 2026@Kent StateL6063.9
Oct 3, 2026vsToledoL3558.2
Oct 10, 2026@NorthwesternL11953.2
Oct 17, 2026@Bowling GreenW5757.6
Oct 24, 2026vsSSacramento StateW73—

Method

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  • 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 1.3 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 27% of the difference the model predicts.
  • Stony Brook, Sacramento State 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, 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.
  • 17 games in 2024 and 2025 are neither with Tyler Mizzell nor without Tyler Mizzell: Tyler Mizzell had no game for the team those seasons, and sit out.