California’s penalty yards with Jackson Brousseau and without Jackson Brousseau
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, California was 32.8 yards over with Jackson Brousseau and 13.8 yards over without Jackson Brousseau in 2026, 3 games against 5. The plain averages are 94.3 and 79.2, a difference of 15.2. All 4 first-half games were without Jackson Brousseau.
Jackson Brousseau, quarterback: 701 passing yards, 120 pass attempts and 75 completions in 5 games this season.
3 games with Jackson Brousseau 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 +19.0 difference in penalty yards over expected with Jackson Brousseau vs without Jackson Brousseau is about what you’d expect.
A +15.2 difference in penalty yards with Jackson Brousseau vs without Jackson Brousseau is about what you’d expect.
The games
| Side | Date | Game | Result | penalty yards | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 | vs UCLA | L | 59 | 66.4 | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | @ Syracuse | W | 87 | 67.5 | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vsWWagner | W | 80 | — | |
| Sep 25, 2026 | vs Clemson | L | 61 | 65.5 | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | @ UNLV | L | 147 | 58.6 | |
| Oct 10, 2026 | vs Virginia Tech | W | 99 | 62.4 | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | vs Wake Forest | L | 37 | 63.5 | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | @ SMU | L | 107 | 63.2 | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | @ NC State | L | 81 | 63.4 |
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, 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.
- Wagner 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.