Putting Up Numbers· college football

Georgia State’s carries with Cameran Brown and without Cameran Brown

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Georgia State was 2.0 carries over with Cameran Brown and 3.1 carries under without Cameran Brown over its last 25 games, 9 games against 9. The plain averages are 35.8 and 29.8, a difference of 6.0.

Cameran Brown, quarterback: 2,652 passing yards, 351 pass attempts and 230 completions in 17 of those 25 games, 18% of Georgia State’s carries in those games.

carries a game over expected

A +5.1 difference in carries over expected with Cameran Brown vs without Cameran Brown is unusual: shuffle which games were with Cameran Brown and it comes up 4 times in 100.

A +6.0 difference in carries with Cameran Brown vs without Cameran Brown is unusual: shuffle which games were with Cameran Brown and it comes up 3 times in 100.

The games

with Cameran Brownwithout Cameran Brown
Georgia State’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Cameran Brown or without Cameran Brown
SideDateGameResultcarriesExpected
Nov 1, 2024@UConnL2630.8
Nov 9, 2024@James MadisonL2730.2
Nov 16, 2024vsArkansas StateL2332.4
Nov 23, 2024@Texas StateW4029.9
Nov 30, 2024vsCoastal CarolinaL3333.0
Aug 30, 2025@Ole MissL3430.2
Sep 6, 2025vsMemphisL2630.4
Sep 13, 2025vsMMurray StateW31—
Sep 20, 2025@VanderbiltL2026.7
Oct 4, 2025vsJames MadisonL2227.7
Oct 11, 2025vsAppalachian StateL2333.3
Oct 18, 2025@Georgia SouthernL3433.4
Oct 23, 2025vsSouth AlabamaL3731.2
Nov 8, 2025@Coastal CarolinaL3733.4
Nov 15, 2025vsMarshallL3534.0
Nov 22, 2025@TroyL3433.5
Nov 29, 2025@Old DominionL3032.5
Sep 4, 2026vsNNorth Carolina A&TW37—
Sep 12, 2026@Kennesaw StateW4433.9
Sep 19, 2026@UCFL3533.8
Sep 26, 2026vsNorthern IllinoisW3435.5
Oct 3, 2026vsOld DominionW4338.8
Oct 17, 2026@James MadisonL3733.4
Oct 24, 2026@Arkansas StateL3137.5
Oct 31, 2026vsCoastal CarolinaL3239.2

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 0.3 in 2025, plus 0.6 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 74% in 2025, 61% 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.
  • Murray State, North Carolina A&T 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 Cameran Brown nor without Cameran Brown: Cameran Brown had no game for the team that season, and sit out.