Putting Up Numbers· college football

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

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Boise State was 1.5 yards under with Juelz Goff and 2.2 yards over without Juelz Goff over its last 25 games, 5 games against 2. The plain averages are 56.4 and 49.0, a difference of 7.4.

Juelz Goff, running back: 64 rushing yards and 20 carries in 5 of those 25 games.

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.

penalty yards a game over expected

A −3.7 difference in penalty yards over expected with Juelz Goff vs without Juelz Goff is about what you’d expect.

A +7.4 difference in penalty yards with Juelz Goff vs without Juelz Goff is about what you’d expect.

The games

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Boise State’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Juelz Goff or without Juelz Goff
SideDateGameResultpenalty yardsExpected
Nov 29, 2024vsOregon StateW3048.3
Dec 6, 2024vsUNLVW1052.5
Dec 31, 2024vsPenn State (neutral)L9035.8
Aug 28, 2025@South FloridaL5763.4
Sep 5, 2025vsEEastern WashingtonW55—
Sep 20, 2025@Air ForceW10747.9
Sep 27, 2025vsAppalachian StateW5550.8
Oct 4, 2025@Notre DameL11249.2
Oct 11, 2025vsNew MexicoW5060.0
Oct 18, 2025vsUNLVW3760.0
Oct 24, 2025@NevadaW1062.1
Nov 1, 2025vsFresno StateL9455.0
Nov 15, 2025@San Diego StateL4553.5
Nov 22, 2025vsColorado StateW9553.3
Nov 28, 2025@Utah StateW6557.9
Dec 5, 2025vsUNLVW2061.3
Dec 13, 2025vsWashington (neutral)L3051.0
Sep 5, 2026@OregonL2552.7
Sep 12, 2026vsMemphisW8752.9
Sep 19, 2026vsSSouth DakotaW39—
Sep 26, 2026@Western MichiganW5859.4
Oct 3, 2026vsUtah StateW2558.6
Oct 10, 2026@Fresno StateW8351.0
Oct 24, 2026@Washington StateW7259.3
Oct 31, 2026vsTexas StateW4059.4

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.
  • 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.
  • 17 games in 2024 and 2025 are neither with Juelz Goff nor without Juelz Goff: Juelz Goff had no game for the team those seasons, and sit out.