Putting Up Numbers· college football

Mississippi State’s yards a carry with Kamario Taylor and without Kamario Taylor

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Mississippi State averaged 4.74 yards a carry with Kamario Taylor and 3.69 without Kamario Taylor over its last 25 games, 7 games against 14, a difference of 1.05.

Kamario Taylor, quarterback: 2,089 passing yards, 236 pass attempts and 147 completions in 17 of those 25 games.

yards a carry a game

A +1.05 difference in yards a carry with Kamario Taylor vs without Kamario Taylor is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Kamario Taylorwithout Kamario Taylor
Mississippi State’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Kamario Taylor or without Kamario Taylor
SideDateGameResultyards a carryExpected
Nov 2, 2024vsUMassW8.38—
Nov 9, 2024@TennesseeL4.71—
Nov 23, 2024vsMissouriL6.68—
Nov 29, 2024@Ole MissL1.30—
Aug 30, 2025@Southern MissW4.54—
Sep 6, 2025vsArizona StateW2.52—
Sep 13, 2025vsAlcorn StateW7.83—
Sep 20, 2025vsNorthern IllinoisW5.96—
Sep 27, 2025vsTennesseeL3.56—
Oct 4, 2025@Texas A&ML2.48—
Oct 18, 2025@FloridaL3.27—
Oct 25, 2025vsTexasL1.47—
Nov 1, 2025@ArkansasW3.25—
Nov 8, 2025vsGeorgiaL3.67—
Nov 15, 2025@MissouriL2.36—
Nov 28, 2025vsOle MissL6.36—
Jan 2, 2026vsWake Forest (neutral)L2.71—
Sep 5, 2026vsLouisiana MonroeW9.72—
Sep 12, 2026@MinnesotaW5.48—
Sep 19, 2026@South CarolinaW4.84—
Sep 26, 2026vsMissouriW3.48—
Oct 3, 2026vsAlabamaL0.60—
Oct 17, 2026@LSUL4.05—
Oct 24, 2026vsOklahomaL5.03—
Oct 31, 2026@TexasL1.66—

Method

Read against .

  • 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 20 of these 21 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.
  • 4 games in 2024 are neither with Kamario Taylor nor without Kamario Taylor: Kamario Taylor had no game for the team that season, and sit out.