Putting Up Numbers· college football

Louisiana Monroe’s total yards with Austin Carlisle and without Austin Carlisle

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Louisiana Monroe was 6.9 yards under with Austin Carlisle and 26.4 yards under without Austin Carlisle over its last 25 games, 1 game against 6. The plain averages are 376.0 and 315.7, a difference of 60.3. Expected was 78.1 yards lower with Austin Carlisle than without Austin Carlisle. Both night games were without Austin Carlisle. All 4 conference games were without Austin Carlisle.

Austin Carlisle, quarterback: 360 passing yards, 67 pass attempts and 42 completions in 6 of those 25 games.

2 games with Austin Carlisle 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 +60.3 difference in total yards with Austin Carlisle vs without Austin Carlisle is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Austin Carlislewithout Austin Carlisle
Louisiana Monroe’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Austin Carlisle or without Austin Carlisle
SideDateGameResulttotal yardsExpected
Nov 2, 2024@MarshallL388317.9
Nov 9, 2024vsTexas StateL282325.5
Nov 16, 2024@AuburnL242259.6
Nov 23, 2024@Arkansas StateL393393.5
Nov 30, 2024vsLouisianaL335320.0
Aug 28, 2025vsSSt. Francis (PA)W434—
Sep 6, 2025@AlabamaL148234.2
Sep 20, 2025@UTEPW401332.2
Sep 27, 2025vsArkansas StateW385354.2
Oct 4, 2025@NorthwesternL273255.0
Oct 11, 2025@Coastal CarolinaL316388.3
Oct 18, 2025vsTroyL326327.7
Oct 25, 2025@Southern MissL312360.2
Nov 1, 2025vsOld DominionL293283.4
Nov 15, 2025vsSouth AlabamaL154359.6
Nov 22, 2025@Texas StateL300350.8
Nov 29, 2025@LouisianaL516331.8
Sep 5, 2026@Mississippi StateL282260.6
Sep 12, 2026@UABL257263.9
Sep 19, 2026vsSS E LouisianaL495—
Sep 26, 2026vsFlorida AtlanticL332413.1
Oct 3, 2026@South AlabamaL442335.2
Oct 17, 2026vsLouisiana TechL236320.1
Oct 24, 2026@TroyW243322.0
Oct 31, 2026vsSouthern MissL359401.5

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, plus 12.1 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 67% 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.
  • 17 games in 2024 and 2025 are neither with Austin Carlisle nor without Austin Carlisle: Austin Carlisle had no game for the team those seasons, and sit out.