Putting Up Numbers· college football

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

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Boise State was 32.6 yards over with Juelz Goff and 2.5 yards under without Juelz Goff over its last 25 games, 5 games against 2. The plain averages are 220.6 and 232.0, a difference of 11.4.

Juelz Goff, running back: 64 rushing yards and 20 carries in 5 of those 25 games, 6% of Boise State’s rushing yards in those 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.

rushing yards a game over expected

A +35.1 difference in rushing yards over expected with Juelz Goff vs without Juelz Goff is about what you’d expect.

A −11.4 difference in rushing yards with Juelz Goff vs without Juelz Goff is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Juelz Goffwithout Juelz Goff
Boise State’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Juelz Goff or without Juelz Goff
SideDateGameResultrushing yardsExpected
Nov 29, 2024vsOregon StateW272237.0
Dec 6, 2024vsUNLVW218185.3
Dec 31, 2024vsPenn State (neutral)L108173.5
Aug 28, 2025@South FloridaL122146.2
Sep 5, 2025vsEEastern WashingtonW330—
Sep 20, 2025@Air ForceW285153.5
Sep 27, 2025vsAppalachian StateW153187.8
Oct 4, 2025@Notre DameL100104.2
Oct 11, 2025vsNew MexicoW163133.1
Oct 18, 2025vsUNLVW296182.7
Oct 24, 2025@NevadaW139170.8
Nov 1, 2025vsFresno StateL91190.3
Nov 15, 2025@San Diego StateL164163.0
Nov 22, 2025vsColorado StateW280211.2
Nov 28, 2025@Utah StateW171188.5
Dec 5, 2025vsUNLVW172198.7
Dec 13, 2025vsWashington (neutral)L58125.0
Sep 5, 2026@OregonL94189.0
Sep 12, 2026vsMemphisW359203.7
Sep 19, 2026vsSSouth DakotaW327—
Sep 26, 2026@Western MichiganW177183.6
Oct 3, 2026vsUtah StateW185165.4
Oct 10, 2026@Fresno StateW275185.0
Oct 24, 2026@Washington StateW261205.4
Oct 31, 2026vsTexas StateW121181.8

Method

Read against .

  • 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.
  • 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.