Putting Up Numbers· college football

Marshall’s penalty yards with Carlos Del Rio-Wilson and without Carlos Del Rio-Wilson

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Marshall was 12.4 yards over with Carlos Del Rio-Wilson and 19.3 yards under without Carlos Del Rio-Wilson over its last 25 games, 12 games against 6. The plain averages are 70.6 and 37.7, a difference of 33.0. Both opponents outside the major colleges were with Carlos Del Rio-Wilson.

Carlos Del Rio-Wilson, quarterback: 3,123 passing yards, 404 pass attempts and 263 completions in 18 of those 25 games.

penalty yards a game over expected

A +31.7 difference in penalty yards over expected with Carlos Del Rio-Wilson vs without Carlos Del Rio-Wilson is rare: shuffle which games were with Carlos Del Rio-Wilson and it comes up less than once in 100.

A +33.0 difference in penalty yards with Carlos Del Rio-Wilson vs without Carlos Del Rio-Wilson is rare: shuffle which games were with Carlos Del Rio-Wilson and it comes up less than once in 100.

The games

with Carlos Del Rio-Wilsonwithout Carlos Del Rio-Wilson
Marshall’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Carlos Del Rio-Wilson or without Carlos Del Rio-Wilson
SideDateGameResultpenalty yardsExpected
Nov 9, 2024@Southern MissW4050.4
Nov 16, 2024vsCoastal CarolinaW5047.8
Nov 23, 2024@Old DominionW1551.5
Nov 30, 2024@James MadisonW2550.3
Dec 7, 2024@LouisianaW6046.5
Aug 30, 2025@GeorgiaL4252.0
Sep 6, 2025vsMissouri StateL4067.7
Sep 13, 2025vsEEastern KentuckyW75—
Sep 20, 2025@Middle TennesseeW6249.5
Sep 27, 2025@LouisianaL10255.2
Oct 11, 2025vsOld DominionW7057.2
Oct 18, 2025vsTexas StateW6050.2
Oct 30, 2025@Coastal CarolinaL7057.5
Nov 8, 2025vsJames MadisonL5551.8
Nov 15, 2025@Georgia StateW5656.3
Nov 22, 2025@Appalachian StateL6053.9
Nov 29, 2025vsGeorgia SouthernL2757.9
Sep 5, 2026@Penn StateL4553.3
Sep 12, 2026vsMiddle TennesseeW3555.0
Sep 19, 2026@Missouri StateW6061.1
Sep 26, 2026vsGGardner-WebbW105—
Oct 3, 2026@James MadisonL7556.6
Oct 10, 2026vsCoastal CarolinaL3256.8
Oct 20, 2026vsSouth AlabamaW5052.8
Oct 31, 2026@Old DominionW9457.9

Method

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  • 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.
  • Eastern Kentucky, Gardner-Webb 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 Carlos Del Rio-Wilson nor without Carlos Del Rio-Wilson: Carlos Del Rio-Wilson had no game for the team that season, and sit out.