Putting Up Numbers· college football

New Mexico’s total yards with Luke Moga and since Luke Moga’s last game

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, New Mexico was 47.1 yards under with Luke Moga and 4.4 yards over since Luke Moga’s last game in 2026, 1 game against 5. The plain averages are 412.0 and 348.3, a difference of 63.7. All 4 away games were since Luke Moga’s last game. All 4 conference games were since Luke Moga’s last game. All 4 second-half games were since Luke Moga’s last game.

Luke Moga, quarterback: 248 passing yards, 38 pass attempts and 23 completions in 4 games this season.

2 games with Luke Moga is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

total yards a game over expected

A +63.7 difference in total yards with Luke Moga vs since Luke Moga’s last game is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Luke Mogasince Luke Moga’s last game
New Mexico’s games, 2026, each marked with Luke Moga or since Luke Moga’s last game
SideDateGameResulttotal yardsExpected
Sep 5, 2026vsCentral MichiganW364411.1
Sep 12, 2026vsMMercyhurstW460—
Sep 19, 2026@OklahomaL185296.7
Sep 26, 2026@New Mexico StateW427329.4
Oct 3, 2026vsUTEPW493387.8
Oct 17, 2026@HawaiiW360375.7
Oct 24, 2026vsNNorth Dakota StateW282—
Oct 31, 2026@San Jose StateW343396.2

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.
  • Mercyhurst, North Dakota State 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 5 of these 8 games; in the other 3 a player is counted as in them 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.