Baylor’s rushing yards with DJ Lagway and without DJ Lagway
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Baylor was 7.2 yards under with DJ Lagway and 17.6 yards over without DJ Lagway in 2026, 6 games against 1. The plain averages are 139.7 and 197.0, a difference of 57.3. All 3 away games were with DJ Lagway. All 5 conference games were with DJ Lagway. All 4 second-half games were with DJ Lagway.
DJ Lagway, quarterback: 1,671 passing yards, 242 pass attempts and 129 completions in 6 games this season, 5% of Baylor’s rushing yards in those games.
2 games without DJ Lagway is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
rushing yards a game over expected
with DJ Lagway
−7.2
without DJ Lagway
+17.6
-1000100
plain
139.7
197.0
100150200
A −57.3 difference in rushing yards with DJ Lagway vs without DJ Lagway is about what you’d expect.
The games
with DJ Lagwaywithout DJ Lagway
| Side | Date | Game | Result | rushing yards | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 | vs Auburn (neutral) | L | 117 | 162.2 | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | vs Prairie View A&M | W | 223 | — | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vs Louisiana Tech | W | 171 | 153.4 | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | vs Colorado | W | 117 | 136.1 | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | @ Arizona State | W | 244 | 108.0 | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | vs TCU | L | 54 | 162.5 | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | @ Kansas | L | 122 | 188.5 | |
| Oct 30, 2026 | @ UCF | W | 184 | 123.9 |
Method
- 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, plus 8.0 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 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.
- Prairie View A&M 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.