Putting Up Numbers· college football

Florida’s passing yards with Tramell Jones Jr. and without Tramell Jones Jr.

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Florida was 32.2 yards under with Tramell Jones Jr. and 2.8 yards over without Tramell Jones Jr. over its last 25 games, 2 games against 16. The plain averages are 201.3 and 226.2, a difference of 24.8. All 5 of Billy Gonzales’ games were without Tramell Jones Jr..

Tramell Jones Jr., quarterback: 770 passing yards, 124 pass attempts and 84 completions in 8 of those 25 games, 40% of Florida’s passing yards in those games.

3 games with Tramell Jones Jr. 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 −34.9 difference in passing yards over expected with Tramell Jones Jr. vs without Tramell Jones Jr. is about what you’d expect.

A −24.8 difference in passing yards with Tramell Jones Jr. vs without Tramell Jones Jr. is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Tramell Jones Jr.without Tramell Jones Jr.
Florida’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Tramell Jones Jr. or without Tramell Jones Jr.
SideDateGameResultpassing yardsExpected
Nov 9, 2024@TexasL132190.7
Nov 16, 2024vsLSUW226216.0
Nov 23, 2024vsOle MissW180233.2
Nov 30, 2024@Florida StateW133199.6
Dec 20, 2024vsTulane (neutral)W305200.2
Aug 30, 2025vsLLong Island UniversityW251—
Sep 6, 2025vsSouth FloridaL222240.5
Sep 13, 2025@LSUL287172.4
Sep 20, 2025@Miami (FL)L61207.5
Oct 4, 2025vsTexasW298205.4
Oct 11, 2025@Texas A&ML245171.7
Oct 18, 2025vsMississippi StateW280210.6
Nov 1, 2025vsGeorgia (neutral)L166203.1
Nov 8, 2025@KentuckyL143231.0
Nov 15, 2025@Ole MissL218198.3
Nov 22, 2025vsTennesseeL116241.3
Nov 29, 2025vsFlorida StateW168197.8
Sep 5, 2026vsFlorida AtlanticW343259.1
Sep 12, 2026vsCCampbellW300—
Sep 19, 2026@AuburnW252235.9
Sep 26, 2026vsOle MissW196248.4
Oct 3, 2026@MissouriL283235.1
Oct 10, 2026vsSouth CarolinaL267243.0
Oct 17, 2026@TexasW155198.2
Oct 31, 2026vsGeorgia (neutral)L198219.2

Method

Read against .

  • 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 1.8 in 2025, plus 4.1 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 68% in 2025, 59% 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.
  • Long Island University, Campbell have no other game in the table, so those games have no expected number and sit 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.
  • 5 games in 2024 are neither with Tramell Jones Jr. nor without Tramell Jones Jr.: Tramell Jones Jr. had no game for the team that season, and sit out.