Iowa’s carries with Hank Brown and without Hank Brown
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Iowa was 2.8 carries under with Hank Brown and 6.6 carries over without Hank Brown in 2026, 6 games against 1. The plain averages are 31.7 and 38.0, a difference of 6.3. All 5 home games were with Hank Brown. All 6 day games were with Hank Brown. All 3 ranked opponents were with Hank Brown.
Hank Brown, quarterback: 1,190 passing yards, 169 pass attempts and 109 completions in 7 games this season, 11% of Iowa’s carries in those games.
One game without Hank Brown is one game, not a sample, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
carries a game over expected
with Hank Brown
−2.8
without Hank Brown
+6.6
-10-505
plain
31.7
38.0
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The games
with Hank Brownwithout Hank Brown
| Side | Date | Game | Result | carries | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 | vs Northern Illinois | W | 38 | 33.5 | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | vs Iowa State | W | 29 | 30.7 | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vsNNorthern Iowa | W | 41 | — | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | @ Michigan | W | 24 | 33.7 | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | vs Ohio State | L | 21 | 33.9 | |
| Oct 9, 2026 | @ Washington | W | 38 | 31.4 | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | @ Minnesota | L | 30 | 32.2 | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | vs Wisconsin | W | 39 | 33.6 |
Method
- 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, plus 0.6 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 61% of the difference the model predicts.
- Northern Iowa 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 for 7 of these 8 games; in the other game a player is counted as in it 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.