Putting Up Numbers· college football

East Carolina’s yards a carry with Mitch Griffis and without Mitch Griffis

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East Carolina averaged 4.01 yards a carry with Mitch Griffis and 5.47 without Mitch Griffis over its last 25 games, 5 games against 3, a difference of 1.46.

Mitch Griffis, quarterback: 753 passing yards, 126 pass attempts and 69 completions in 8 of those 25 games.

3 games without Mitch Griffis is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

yards a carry a game

A −1.46 difference in yards a carry with Mitch Griffis vs without Mitch Griffis is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Mitch Griffiswithout Mitch Griffis
East Carolina’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Mitch Griffis or without Mitch Griffis
SideDateGameResultyards a carryExpected
Nov 14, 2024@TulsaW5.29—
Nov 23, 2024@North TexasW4.57—
Nov 29, 2024vsNavyL3.85—
Dec 28, 2024vsNC State (neutral)W8.61—
Aug 28, 2025@NC StateL1.89—
Sep 6, 2025vsCCampbellW4.65—
Sep 13, 2025@Coastal CarolinaW4.38—
Sep 20, 2025vsBYUL3.40—
Sep 25, 2025vsArmyW3.67—
Oct 9, 2025@TulaneL3.72—
Oct 16, 2025vsTulsaW5.15—
Nov 1, 2025@TempleW7.18—
Nov 8, 2025vsCharlotteW4.43—
Nov 15, 2025vsMemphisW3.21—
Nov 22, 2025@UTSAL4.94—
Nov 29, 2025@Florida AtlanticW4.55—
Dec 27, 2025vsPittsburgh (neutral)W1.78—
Sep 5, 2026@AlabamaL1.45—
Sep 12, 2026vsAppalachian StateL5.34—
Sep 19, 2026@Old DominionW3.93—
Sep 26, 2026vsNNorth Carolina CentralW6.73—
Oct 10, 2026vsRiceW5.85—
Oct 15, 2026@UABL3.82—
Oct 22, 2026@MemphisL4.24—
Oct 31, 2026vsTempleW5.07—

Method

Read against .

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 17 games in 2024 and 2025 are neither with Mitch Griffis nor without Mitch Griffis: Mitch Griffis had no game for the team those seasons, and sit out.