Missouri’s points of margin with Donovan Olugbode and without Donovan Olugbode
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Missouri was 0.5 points under with Donovan Olugbode and 11.3 points over without Donovan Olugbode over its last 25 games, 16 games against 3. The plain averages are 11.6 and 14.7, a difference of 3.1. Expected was 4.2 points higher with Donovan Olugbode than without Donovan Olugbode. All 8 ranked opponents were with Donovan Olugbode. All 6 top-10 opponents were with Donovan Olugbode. Both opponents outside the major colleges were with Donovan Olugbode.
Donovan Olugbode, receiver: 994 receiving yards, 71 receptions and 9 receiving touchdowns in 17 of those 25 games.
3 games without Donovan Olugbode is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
points of margin a game over expected
A −11.8 difference in points of margin over expected with Donovan Olugbode vs without Donovan Olugbode is about what you’d expect.
A −3.1 difference in points of margin with Donovan Olugbode vs without Donovan Olugbode is about what you’d expect.
The games
| Side | Date | Game | Result | points of margin | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2024 | @ South Carolina | L | -4 | -11.0 | |
| Nov 23, 2024 | @ Mississippi State | W | 19 | 6.9 | |
| Nov 30, 2024 | vs Arkansas | W | 7 | 5.5 | |
| Dec 30, 2024 | vs Iowa (neutral) | W | 3 | -3.4 | |
| Aug 28, 2025 | vsCCentral Arkansas | W | 55 | — | |
| Sep 6, 2025 | vs Kansas | W | 11 | 9.5 | |
| Sep 13, 2025 | vs Louisiana | W | 42 | 24.4 | |
| Sep 20, 2025 | vsSouth Carolina | W | 9 | 6.8 | |
| Sep 27, 2025 | vs UMass | W | 36 | 49.5 | |
| Oct 11, 2025 | vs Alabama | L | -3 | -3.9 | |
| Oct 18, 2025 | @ Auburn | W | 6 | -1.8 | |
| Oct 25, 2025 | @ Vanderbilt | L | -7 | -9.9 | |
| Nov 8, 2025 | vs Texas A&M | L | -21 | -1.0 | |
| Nov 15, 2025 | vsMississippi State | W | 22 | 9.4 | |
| Nov 22, 2025 | @ Oklahoma | L | -11 | -6.7 | |
| Nov 29, 2025 | @Arkansas | W | 14 | 1.1 | |
| Dec 27, 2025 | vs Virginia (neutral) | L | -6 | 2.5 | |
| Sep 3, 2026 | vsAArkansas-Pine Bluff | W | 40 | — | |
| Sep 11, 2026 | @Kansas | W | 17 | 5.5 | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vs Troy | W | 10 | 34.3 | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | @Mississippi State | L | -7 | 5.2 | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | vs Florida | W | 28 | -3.1 | |
| Oct 10, 2026 | vsTexas A&M | W | 21 | 2.1 | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | @ Ole Miss | L | -28 | -1.3 | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | @Arkansas | W | 24 | 8.0 |
Method
- 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, plus 3.1 in 2025, plus 3.7 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 87% in 2025, 79% 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.
- Central Arkansas, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 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 11 of these 21 games; in the other 10 a player is counted as in them when the box score has a stat for him.
- 4 games in 2024 are neither with Donovan Olugbode nor without Donovan Olugbode: Donovan Olugbode had no game for the team that season, and sit out.