Putting Up Numbers· college football

Kansas’ penalty yards with Isaiah Marshall and without Isaiah Marshall

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Kansas was 3.0 yards over with Isaiah Marshall and 6.7 yards under without Isaiah Marshall over its last 25 games, 6 games against 12. The plain averages are 60.7 and 41.5, a difference of 19.2. All 3 night games were without Isaiah Marshall.

Isaiah Marshall, quarterback: 1,534 passing yards, 199 pass attempts and 108 completions in 15 of those 25 games.

penalty yards a game over expected

A +9.6 difference in penalty yards over expected with Isaiah Marshall vs without Isaiah Marshall is about what you’d expect.

A +19.2 difference in penalty yards with Isaiah Marshall vs without Isaiah Marshall is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Isaiah Marshallwithout Isaiah Marshall
Kansas’ games, last 25 games, each marked with Isaiah Marshall or without Isaiah Marshall
SideDateGameResultpenalty yardsExpected
Oct 26, 2024@Kansas StateL2541.7
Nov 9, 2024vsIowa State (neutral)W3251.4
Nov 16, 2024@BYUW1046.9
Nov 23, 2024vsColorado (neutral)W3556.0
Nov 30, 2024@BaylorL1549.3
Aug 23, 2025vsFresno StateW7250.2
Aug 29, 2025vsWWagnerW55—
Sep 6, 2025@MissouriL1050.5
Sep 20, 2025vsWest VirginiaW4049.3
Sep 27, 2025vsCincinnatiL2639.8
Oct 4, 2025@UCFW4146.3
Oct 11, 2025@Texas TechL4542.0
Oct 25, 2025vsKansas StateL4636.8
Nov 1, 2025vsOklahoma StateW3045.3
Nov 8, 2025@ArizonaL5546.4
Nov 22, 2025@Iowa StateL2556.0
Nov 28, 2025vsUtahL3246.7
Sep 4, 2026vsLLong Island UniversityW60—
Sep 11, 2026vsMissouriL8960.1
Sep 19, 2026vsArizona State (neutral)L4050.5
Oct 3, 2026vsMiddle TennesseeW5060.1
Oct 10, 2026@UtahL9059.3
Oct 17, 2026@Kansas StateL6657.8
Oct 24, 2026vsBaylorW3059.4
Oct 31, 2026@TCUL6355.6

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, 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.
  • 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.
  • Wagner, Long Island University 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 Isaiah Marshall nor without Isaiah Marshall: Isaiah Marshall had no game for the team that season, and sit out.