Putting Up Numbers· college football

Georgia State’s rushing yards with Cameran Brown and without Cameran Brown

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Georgia State was 22.0 yards over with Cameran Brown and 20.8 yards under without Cameran Brown over its last 25 games, 9 games against 9. The plain averages are 188.0 and 122.2, a difference of 65.8.

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

rushing yards a game over expected

A +42.8 difference in rushing yards over expected with Cameran Brown vs without Cameran Brown is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Cameran Brown and it comes up 10 times in 100.

A +65.8 difference in rushing yards 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
SideDateGameResultrushing yardsExpected
Nov 1, 2024@UConnL115131.2
Nov 9, 2024@James MadisonL46122.1
Nov 16, 2024vsArkansas StateL65193.3
Nov 23, 2024@Texas StateW222111.1
Nov 30, 2024vsCoastal CarolinaL202156.1
Aug 30, 2025@Ole MissL192103.1
Sep 6, 2025vsMemphisL51117.0
Sep 13, 2025vsMMurray StateW168—
Sep 20, 2025@VanderbiltL3284.4
Oct 4, 2025vsJames MadisonL3775.1
Oct 11, 2025vsAppalachian StateL78157.1
Oct 18, 2025@Georgia SouthernL164187.4
Oct 23, 2025vsSouth AlabamaL199146.4
Nov 8, 2025@Coastal CarolinaL130168.9
Nov 15, 2025vsMarshallL158134.1
Nov 22, 2025@TroyL156141.7
Nov 29, 2025@Old DominionL12998.0
Sep 4, 2026vsNNorth Carolina A&TW286—
Sep 12, 2026@Kennesaw StateW236156.4
Sep 19, 2026@UCFL203110.0
Sep 26, 2026vsNorthern IllinoisW146230.0
Oct 3, 2026vsOld DominionW188171.1
Oct 17, 2026@James MadisonL188134.8
Oct 24, 2026@Arkansas StateL201205.4
Oct 31, 2026vsCoastal CarolinaL160216.6

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 5.9 in 2025, plus 8.0 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 77% in 2025, 60% 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.