Louisiana Tech’s yards a carry with Blake Baker and without Blake Baker
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Louisiana Tech averaged 4.19 yards a carry with Blake Baker and 4.41 without Blake Baker over its last 25 games, 11 games against 14, a difference of 0.23. Both neutral-site games were without Blake Baker. Both bowl and playoff games were without Blake Baker.
Blake Baker, quarterback: 2,578 passing yards, 304 pass attempts and 208 completions in 15 of those 25 games.
yards a carry a game
with Blake Baker
4.19
without Blake Baker
4.41
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A −0.23 difference in yards a carry with Blake Baker vs without Blake Baker is about what you’d expect.
The games
with Blake Bakerwithout Blake Baker
| Side | Date | Game | Result | yards a carry | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2024 | @ Western Kentucky | W | 4.53 | — | |
| Nov 23, 2024 | @ Arkansas | L | 1.84 | — | |
| Nov 30, 2024 | vs Kennesaw State | W | 5.45 | — | |
| Dec 28, 2024 | vs Army (neutral) | L | 2.23 | — | |
| Aug 30, 2025 | vsSS E Louisiana | W | 4.15 | — | |
| Sep 6, 2025 | @ LSU | L | 2.35 | — | |
| Sep 13, 2025 | vs New Mexico State | W | 5.62 | — | |
| Sep 20, 2025 | vs Southern Miss | W | 2.73 | — | |
| Sep 27, 2025 | @ UTEP | W | 2.26 | — | |
| Oct 9, 2025 | @Kennesaw State | L | 3.40 | — | |
| Oct 21, 2025 | vsWestern Kentucky | L | 2.95 | — | |
| Oct 31, 2025 | vs Sam Houston | W | 10.92 | — | |
| Nov 8, 2025 | @ Delaware | L | 3.97 | — | |
| Nov 15, 2025 | @ Washington State | L | 3.57 | — | |
| Nov 22, 2025 | vs Liberty | W | 5.91 | — | |
| Nov 29, 2025 | @ Missouri State | W | 8.17 | — | |
| Dec 30, 2025 | vs Coastal Carolina (neutral) | W | 3.98 | — | |
| Sep 5, 2026 | vs Northwestern State | W | 6.69 | — | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | @LSU | L | -0.13 | — | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | @ Baylor | L | 4.33 | — | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | vsArmy | W | 7.94 | — | |
| Oct 10, 2026 | vs Louisiana | W | 4.48 | — | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | @ Louisiana Monroe | W | 3.72 | — | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | vs Old Dominion | W | 3.02 | — | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | @ South Alabama | W | 3.77 | — |
Method
- 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.
- Who played is read from the schools’ box scores’ participation lists for 21 of these 25 games; in the other 4 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.