Putting Up Numbers· college football

Miami (OH)’s total yards with Caleb Heavner and without Caleb Heavner

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Miami (OH) was 42.7 yards under with Caleb Heavner and 44.1 yards over without Caleb Heavner over its last 25 games, 5 games against 3. The plain averages are 333.4 and 388.0, a difference of 54.6. All 5 conference games were with Caleb Heavner. All 4 nonconference games were without Caleb Heavner.

Caleb Heavner, quarterback: 769 passing yards, 125 pass attempts and 68 completions in 8 of those 25 games.

total yards a game over expected

A −86.9 difference in total yards over expected with Caleb Heavner vs without Caleb Heavner is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Caleb Heavner and it comes up 8 times in 100.

A −54.6 difference in total yards with Caleb Heavner vs without Caleb Heavner is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Caleb Heavner and it comes up 20 times in 100.

The games

with Caleb Heavnerwithout Caleb Heavner
Miami (OH)’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Caleb Heavner or without Caleb Heavner
SideDateGameResulttotal yardsExpected
Dec 7, 2024vsOhio (neutral)L190338.5
Dec 28, 2024vsColorado State (neutral)W401367.6
Aug 28, 2025@WisconsinL117269.4
Sep 6, 2025@RutgersL368364.5
Sep 20, 2025vsUNLVL396377.1
Sep 27, 2025vsLLindenwoodW476—
Oct 4, 2025@Northern IllinoisW368345.4
Oct 11, 2025@AkronW353402.4
Oct 18, 2025vsEastern MichiganW460398.3
Oct 25, 2025vsWestern MichiganW412290.1
Nov 4, 2025@OhioL304332.1
Nov 12, 2025vsToledoL222309.6
Nov 19, 2025@BuffaloW353363.2
Nov 29, 2025vsBall StateW460367.5
Dec 6, 2025vsWestern Michigan (neutral)L272301.1
Dec 27, 2025vsFresno State (neutral)L192289.8
Sep 5, 2026@PittsburghL289270.3
Sep 12, 2026vsHoly CrossW438—
Sep 19, 2026@CincinnatiL410341.9
Sep 26, 2026vsUConnW415369.4
Oct 3, 2026vsBowling GreenL306385.2
Oct 10, 2026@UMassW261345.7
Oct 17, 2026vsAkronW389418.9
Oct 24, 2026@Central MichiganW361338.6
Nov 3, 2026vsBuffaloL350392.2

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 two sides are the games before and after one date, so the shuffle moves any game between them.
  • Holy Cross 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 for 8 of these 9 games; in the other game a player is counted as in it 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.
  • 16 games in 2024 and 2025 are neither with Caleb Heavner nor without Caleb Heavner: Caleb Heavner had no game for the team those seasons, and sit out.