Putting Up Numbers· college football

Bowling Green’s total yards at home and away

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Bowling Green was 57.7 yards under at home and 10.5 yards over away over its last 25 games, 10 games against 12. The plain averages are 310.2 and 345.2, a difference of 35.0. Both opponents outside the major colleges were at home.

Bowling Green’s −68.2 at home vs away over expected ranks 134th of the 136 teams with 4 games on each side over their last 25 games through Sep 12, 2026.

total yards a game over expected

A −68.2 difference in total yards over expected at home vs away is rare: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up once in 100.

A −35.0 difference in total yards at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

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Bowling Green’s games, last 25 games, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResulttotal yardsExpected
Sep 21, 2024@Texas A&ML339291.4
Sep 28, 2024vsOld DominionL399377.6
Oct 5, 2024@AkronW389402.6
Oct 12, 2024vsNorthern IllinoisL205320.5
Oct 19, 2024vsKent StateW440491.7
Oct 26, 2024@ToledoW402350.4
Nov 5, 2024@Central MichiganW389364.7
Nov 12, 2024vsWestern MichiganW404424.6
Nov 23, 2024@Ball StateW365451.4
Nov 29, 2024vsMiami (OH)L261348.8
Dec 26, 2024vsArkansas State (neutral)L479421.6
Aug 28, 2025vsLafayetteW268—
Sep 6, 2025@CincinnatiL372294.9
Sep 13, 2025vsLibertyW310330.9
Sep 20, 2025@LouisvilleL321207.6
Sep 27, 2025@OhioL350285.6
Oct 11, 2025vsToledoW249266.9
Oct 18, 2025vsCentral MichiganL310328.4
Oct 25, 2025@Kent StateL379368.6
Nov 1, 2025vsBuffaloL217362.9
Nov 8, 2025@Eastern MichiganL259378.7
Nov 18, 2025vsAkronL273392.6
Nov 25, 2025@UMassW408376.9
Sep 5, 2026vsTTarleton StateL386—
Sep 12, 2026@NebraskaL169242.9

Method

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  • Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every game of its season between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, plus 6.1 in 2024, plus 7.7 in 2025, plus 12.1 in 2026 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 79% in 2024, 79% in 2025, 67% in 2026 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.
  • Lafayette, Tarleton State have no other game in the table, so those games have no expected number and sit out the second figure.
  • Read against the season’s ratings as of Oct 31, 2026; the games are the ones through Sep 12.