Putting Up Numbers· college football

Boise State’s passing yards with Juelz Goff and without Juelz Goff

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Boise State was 4.3 yards over with Juelz Goff and 2.0 yards under without Juelz Goff in 2026, 5 games against 2. The plain averages are 237.0 and 209.0, a difference of 28.0.

Juelz Goff, running back: 64 rushing yards and 20 carries in 5 games this season.

3 games without Juelz Goff 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 +6.2 difference in passing yards over expected with Juelz Goff vs without Juelz Goff is about what you’d expect.

A +28.0 difference in passing yards with Juelz Goff vs without Juelz Goff is about what you’d expect.

The games

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Boise State’s games, 2026, each marked with Juelz Goff or without Juelz Goff
SideDateGameResultpassing yardsExpected
Sep 5, 2026@OregonL181189.8
Sep 12, 2026vsMemphisW221230.7
Sep 19, 2026vsSSouth DakotaW208—
Sep 26, 2026@Western MichiganW204248.9
Oct 3, 2026vsUtah StateW244208.2
Oct 10, 2026@Fresno StateW238233.2
Oct 24, 2026@Washington StateW149220.9
Oct 31, 2026vsTexas StateW367254.9

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, plus 4.1 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 59% 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.
  • South Dakota 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 for 7 of these 8 games; in the other game a player is counted as in it when the box score has a stat for him.