Putting Up Numbers· college football

Louisiana Monroe’s penalty yards with Aidan Armenta and without Aidan Armenta

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Louisiana Monroe was 2.4 yards under with Aidan Armenta and 46.4 yards under without Aidan Armenta in 2026, 6 games against 1. The plain averages are 51.0 and 32.5, a difference of 18.5. Both night games were with Aidan Armenta. All 4 conference games were with Aidan Armenta. All 4 second-half games were with Aidan Armenta.

Aidan Armenta, quarterback: 1,300 passing yards, 180 pass attempts and 112 completions in 7 games this season.

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

penalty yards a game over expected

A +18.5 difference in penalty yards with Aidan Armenta vs without Aidan Armenta is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Aidan Armentawithout Aidan Armenta
Louisiana Monroe’s games, 2026, each marked with Aidan Armenta or without Aidan Armenta
SideDateGameResultpenalty yardsExpected
Sep 5, 2026@Mississippi StateL5557.3
Sep 12, 2026@UABL551.4
Sep 19, 2026vsSS E LouisianaL60—
Sep 26, 2026vsFlorida AtlanticL3550.1
Oct 3, 2026@South AlabamaL2253.6
Oct 17, 2026vsLouisiana TechL11851.6
Oct 24, 2026@TroyW3051.8
Oct 31, 2026vsSouthern MissL4656.1

Method

Read against .

  • 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, minus 1.3 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 27% 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.
  • S E Louisiana 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, 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.