Putting Up Numbers· college football

Georgia’s total yards with Gunner Stockton and without Gunner Stockton

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Georgia was 0.7 yards over with Gunner Stockton and 5.9 yards under without Gunner Stockton over its last 25 games, 22 games against 1. The plain averages are 399.1 and 533.0, a difference of 133.9. All 5 away games were with Gunner Stockton. All 7 neutral-site games were with Gunner Stockton. All 11 ranked opponents were with Gunner Stockton.

Gunner Stockton, quarterback: 4,870 passing yards, 615 pass attempts and 431 completions in 24 of those 25 games.

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

total yards a game over expected

A −133.9 difference in total yards with Gunner Stockton vs without Gunner Stockton is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Gunner Stockton and it comes up 15 times in 100.

The games

with Gunner Stocktonwithout Gunner Stockton
Georgia’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Gunner Stockton or without Gunner Stockton
SideDateGameResulttotal yardsExpected
Nov 29, 2024vsGeorgia TechW405410.9
Dec 7, 2024vsTexas (neutral)W277348.0
Jan 2, 2025vsNotre Dame (neutral)L296381.9
Aug 30, 2025vsMarshallW488473.7
Sep 6, 2025vsAAustin PeayW421—
Sep 13, 2025@TennesseeW503406.1
Sep 27, 2025vsAlabamaL357340.4
Oct 4, 2025vsKentuckyW428380.2
Oct 11, 2025@AuburnW296343.0
Oct 18, 2025vsOle MissW513378.6
Nov 1, 2025vsFlorida (neutral)W363382.2
Nov 8, 2025@Mississippi StateW569391.8
Nov 15, 2025vsTexasW357363.8
Nov 22, 2025vsCharlotteW449508.3
Nov 28, 2025vsGeorgia Tech (neutral)W260459.8
Dec 6, 2025vsAlabama (neutral)W299340.8
Jan 1, 2026vsOle Miss (neutral)L343393.1
Sep 5, 2026vsTennessee StateW661—
Sep 12, 2026vsWestern KentuckyW497478.0
Sep 19, 2026@ArkansasW468405.7
Sep 26, 2026vsOklahomaW306382.5
Oct 3, 2026vsVanderbiltW473420.1
Oct 10, 2026@AlabamaW458334.4
Oct 17, 2026vsAuburnL440419.2
Oct 31, 2026vsFlorida (neutral)W318411.8

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 6.1 in 2024, plus 7.7 in 2025, plus 12.1 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 79% in 2024, 79% in 2025, 67% 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.
  • Austin Peay, Tennessee State 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 for 22 of these 25 games; in the other 3 a player is counted as in them when the box score has a stat for him.
  • 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.