Putting Up Numbers· college football

Iowa’s penalty yards with Jeremy Hecklinski and without Jeremy Hecklinski

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Iowa was 20.2 yards over with Jeremy Hecklinski and 14.1 yards under without Jeremy Hecklinski over its last 25 games, 1 game against 18. The plain averages are 73.0 and 33.7, a difference of 39.4. All 12 home games were without Jeremy Hecklinski. All 16 day games were without Jeremy Hecklinski. All 8 ranked opponents were without Jeremy Hecklinski.

Jeremy Hecklinski, quarterback: 480 passing yards, 69 pass attempts and 43 completions in 7 of those 25 games.

One game with Jeremy Hecklinski is one game, not a sample, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

penalty yards a game over expected

The games

with Jeremy Hecklinskiwithout Jeremy Hecklinski
Iowa’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Jeremy Hecklinski or without Jeremy Hecklinski
SideDateGameResultpenalty yardsExpected
Nov 8, 2024@UCLAL2039.9
Nov 23, 2024@MarylandW3049.2
Nov 29, 2024vsNebraskaW1550.3
Dec 30, 2024vsMissouri (neutral)L4641.3
Aug 30, 2025vsUUAlbanyW20—
Sep 6, 2025@Iowa StateL3851.2
Sep 13, 2025vsUMassW544.2
Sep 19, 2025@RutgersW3044.7
Sep 27, 2025vsIndianaL2536.5
Oct 11, 2025@WisconsinW1041.0
Oct 18, 2025vsPenn StateW2034.7
Oct 25, 2025vsMinnesotaW3545.7
Nov 8, 2025vsOregonL043.7
Nov 15, 2025@USCL7046.4
Nov 22, 2025vsMichigan StateW4042.1
Nov 28, 2025@NebraskaW4538.1
Dec 31, 2025vsVanderbilt (neutral)W5346.7
Sep 5, 2026vsNorthern IllinoisW6050.6
Sep 12, 2026vsIowa StateW2554.2
Sep 19, 2026vsNNorthern IowaW83—
Sep 26, 2026@MichiganW3451.9
Oct 3, 2026vsOhio StateL4550.2
Oct 9, 2026@WashingtonW7352.8
Oct 24, 2026@MinnesotaL2551.9
Oct 31, 2026vsWisconsinW1049.9

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, minus 2.1 in 2025, minus 1.3 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 45% in 2025, 27% in 2026 of the difference the model predicts.
  • UAlbany, Northern Iowa 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 16 of these 21 games; in the other 5 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.
  • 4 games in 2024 are neither with Jeremy Hecklinski nor without Jeremy Hecklinski: Jeremy Hecklinski had no game for the team that season, and sit out.