Putting Up Numbers· college football

Colorado State’s rushing yards with Hauss Hejny and without Hauss Hejny

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Colorado State was 9.4 yards under with Hauss Hejny and 3.2 yards over without Hauss Hejny in 2026, 3 games against 4. The plain averages are 189.3 and 144.0, a difference of 45.3.

Hauss Hejny, quarterback: 1,138 passing yards, 134 pass attempts and 90 completions in 5 games this season, 25% of Colorado State’s rushing yards in those games.

rushing yards a game over expected

A −12.6 difference in rushing yards over expected with Hauss Hejny vs without Hauss Hejny is about what you’d expect.

A +45.3 difference in rushing yards with Hauss Hejny vs without Hauss Hejny is about what you’d expect.

The games

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Colorado State’s games, 2026, each marked with Hauss Hejny or without Hauss Hejny
SideDateGameResultrushing yardsExpected
Sep 5, 2026vsWyomingW158193.5
Sep 12, 2026vsSSouthern UtahW300—
Sep 19, 2026vsBYUL82148.1
Sep 26, 2026@UTSAL156149.7
Oct 3, 2026vsOregon StateL190152.7
Oct 15, 2026@Texas StateL148112.6
Oct 24, 2026vsSan Diego StateW220160.4
Oct 31, 2026@Utah StateL79131.3

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.
  • Southern Utah 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.