Putting Up Numbers· college football

Central Michigan’s passing yards with Jadyn Glasser and without Jadyn Glasser

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Central Michigan was 47.4 yards under with Jadyn Glasser and 32.9 yards under without Jadyn Glasser in 2026, 3 games against 4. The plain averages are 129.3 and 118.0, a difference of 11.3. Expected was 15.3 yards higher with Jadyn Glasser than without Jadyn Glasser. Both night games were with Jadyn Glasser.

Jadyn Glasser, quarterback: 463 passing yards, 74 pass attempts and 42 completions in 7 games this season, 49% of Central Michigan’s passing yards in those games.

3 games with Jadyn Glasser 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 −14.5 difference in passing yards over expected with Jadyn Glasser vs without Jadyn Glasser is about what you’d expect.

A +11.3 difference in passing yards with Jadyn Glasser vs without Jadyn Glasser is about what you’d expect.

The games

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Central Michigan’s games, 2026, each marked with Jadyn Glasser or without Jadyn Glasser
SideDateGameResultpassing yardsExpected
Sep 5, 2026@New MexicoL30138.9
Sep 12, 2026vsColgateW76—
Sep 19, 2026vsWyomingW32162.1
Sep 26, 2026@Miami (FL)L137175.7
Oct 3, 2026vsAkronW149169.6
Oct 10, 2026@OhioL154152.1
Oct 17, 2026vsWestern MichiganL179161.9
Oct 24, 2026vsMiami (OH)L221215.6

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.
  • Colgate 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.