Putting Up Numbers· college football

Miami (FL)’s penalty yards with CharMar Brown and without CharMar Brown

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Miami (FL) was 4.6 yards over with CharMar Brown and 3.5 yards over without CharMar Brown over its last 25 games, 16 games against 6. The plain averages are 56.4 and 61.7, a difference of 5.2. All 3 neutral-site games were with CharMar Brown. Both opponents outside the major colleges were with CharMar Brown.

CharMar Brown, running back: 571 rushing yards, 135 carries and 22 receptions in 18 of those 25 games.

penalty yards a game over expected

A +1.1 difference in penalty yards over expected with CharMar Brown vs without CharMar Brown is about what you’d expect.

A −5.2 difference in penalty yards with CharMar Brown vs without CharMar Brown is about what you’d expect.

The games

with CharMar Brownwithout CharMar Brown
Miami (FL)’s games, last 25 games, each marked with CharMar Brown or without CharMar Brown
SideDateGameResultpenalty yardsExpected
Dec 28, 2024vsIowa State (neutral)L4564.7
Aug 31, 2025vsNotre DameW5155.1
Sep 6, 2025vsBBethune-CookmanW50—
Sep 13, 2025vsSouth FloridaW6962.9
Sep 20, 2025vsFloridaW3049.5
Oct 4, 2025@Florida StateW11451.5
Oct 17, 2025vsLouisvilleL6753.5
Oct 25, 2025vsStanfordW3059.9
Nov 1, 2025@SMUL9655.3
Nov 8, 2025vsSyracuseW5455.6
Nov 15, 2025vsNC StateW7557.3
Nov 22, 2025@Virginia TechW8854.9
Nov 29, 2025@PittsburghW2869.5
Dec 20, 2025@Texas A&MW3053.5
Dec 31, 2025vsOhio State (neutral)W048.1
Jan 8, 2026vsOle Miss (neutral)W7449.7
Jan 19, 2026vsIndiana (neutral)L6047.7
Sep 4, 2026@StanfordW5060.0
Sep 10, 2026vsFlorida A&MW5—
Sep 18, 2026@Wake ForestW7557.0
Sep 26, 2026vsCentral MichiganW10754.4
Oct 3, 2026@ClemsonW5862.6
Oct 17, 2026vsFlorida StateW6859.9
Oct 24, 2026vsPittsburghW7760.0
Oct 31, 2026@North CarolinaW3058.6

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.
  • Bethune-Cookman, Florida A&M 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 for 15 of these 24 games; in the other 9 a player is counted as in them when the box score has a stat for him.
  • 1 game in 2024 is neither with CharMar Brown nor without CharMar Brown: CharMar Brown had no game for the team that season, and sits out.