Putting Up Numbers· college football

Missouri State’s penalty yards with Skyler Locklear and since Skyler Locklear’s last game

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Missouri State was 4.3 yards under with Skyler Locklear and 21.5 yards over since Skyler Locklear’s last game over its last 21 games, 4 games against 3. The plain averages are 62.0 and 79.7, a difference of 17.7. Both ranked opponents were with Skyler Locklear. All 4 nonconference games were with Skyler Locklear.

Skyler Locklear, quarterback: 788 passing yards, 108 pass attempts and 71 completions in 5 of those 21 games.

3 games since Skyler Locklear’s last game is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

penalty yards a game over expected

A −25.7 difference in penalty yards over expected with Skyler Locklear vs since Skyler Locklear’s last game is about what you’d expect.

A −17.7 difference in penalty yards with Skyler Locklear vs since Skyler Locklear’s last game is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Skyler Locklearsince Skyler Locklear’s last game
Missouri State’s games, last 21 games, each marked with Skyler Locklear or since Skyler Locklear’s last game
SideDateGameResultpenalty yardsExpected
Aug 30, 2025@USCL6059.4
Sep 6, 2025@MarshallW9346.4
Sep 13, 2025vsSMUL7254.7
Sep 20, 2025vsUUT MartinW84—
Sep 27, 2025vsWestern KentuckyL7058.7
Oct 8, 2025@Middle TennesseeW4152.3
Oct 22, 2025@New Mexico StateW11063.2
Oct 29, 2025vsFlorida InternationalW3657.6
Nov 8, 2025@LibertyW2255.1
Nov 15, 2025vsUTEPW7059.2
Nov 22, 2025@Kennesaw StateL5863.6
Nov 29, 2025vsLouisiana TechL3365.1
Dec 18, 2025vsArkansas State (neutral)L11562.8
Sep 5, 2026@Texas A&ML4160.5
Sep 12, 2026vsLLindenwoodW90—
Sep 19, 2026vsMarshallL8752.8
Sep 26, 2026@SMUL6061.7
Oct 8, 2026@Western KentuckyL3262.2
Oct 14, 2026vsKennesaw StateW8459.5
Oct 20, 2026@DelawareL10056.8
Oct 27, 2026vsSam HoustonW5558.3

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, minus 1.3 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 27% 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.
  • Lindenwood 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, 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.
  • 13 games in 2025 are neither with Skyler Locklear nor since Skyler Locklear’s last game: Skyler Locklear had no game for the team that season, and sit out.