Putting Up Numbers· college football

Georgia State’s penalty yards with Cameran Brown and since Cameran Brown’s last game

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Georgia State was 1.2 yards under with Cameran Brown and 21.8 yards over since Cameran Brown’s last game in 2026, 5 games against 2. The plain averages are 57.2 and 76.0, a difference of 18.8. All 4 nonconference games were with Cameran Brown. All 4 first-half games were with Cameran Brown.

Cameran Brown, quarterback: 1,356 passing yards, 166 pass attempts and 110 completions in 7 games this season.

2 games since Cameran Brown’s last game is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

penalty yards a game over expected

A −23.0 difference in penalty yards over expected with Cameran Brown vs since Cameran Brown’s last game is about what you’d expect.

A −18.8 difference in penalty yards with Cameran Brown vs since Cameran Brown’s last game is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Cameran Brownsince Cameran Brown’s last game
Georgia State’s games, 2026, each marked with Cameran Brown or since Cameran Brown’s last game
SideDateGameResultpenalty yardsExpected
Sep 4, 2026vsNNorth Carolina A&TW50—
Sep 12, 2026@Kennesaw StateW6560.3
Sep 19, 2026@UCFL6057.2
Sep 26, 2026vsNorthern IllinoisW5356.1
Oct 3, 2026vsOld DominionW7562.1
Oct 17, 2026@James MadisonL4063.2
Oct 24, 2026@Arkansas StateL5654.9
Oct 31, 2026vsCoastal CarolinaL9653.5

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, minus 1.3 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 27% of the difference the model predicts.
  • The two sides are the games before and after one date, so the shuffle moves any game between them.
  • North Carolina A&T 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.