Putting Up Numbers· college football

New Mexico’s yards a carry with Toa Fa'avae and without Toa Fa'avae

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New Mexico averaged 4.94 yards a carry with Toa Fa'avae and 4.18 without Toa Fa'avae over its last 25 games, 7 games against 14, a difference of 0.76.

Toa Fa'avae, quarterback: 888 passing yards, 101 pass attempts and 58 completions in 9 of those 25 games.

yards a carry a game

A +0.76 difference in yards a carry with Toa Fa'avae vs without Toa Fa'avae is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Toa Fa'avaewithout Toa Fa'avae
New Mexico’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Toa Fa'avae or without Toa Fa'avae
SideDateGameResultyards a carryExpected
Nov 2, 2024vsWyomingL14.21—
Nov 8, 2024@San Diego StateW8.85—
Nov 16, 2024vsWashington StateW7.35—
Nov 30, 2024@HawaiiL6.22—
Aug 30, 2025@MichiganL1.89—
Sep 6, 2025vsIdaho StateW5.74—
Sep 12, 2025@UCLAW6.48—
Sep 27, 2025vsNew Mexico StateW3.59—
Oct 3, 2025@San Jose StateL2.81—
Oct 11, 2025@Boise StateL2.17—
Oct 18, 2025vsNevadaW5.46—
Oct 25, 2025vsUtah StateW5.49—
Nov 1, 2025@UNLVW4.52—
Nov 15, 2025vsColorado StateW3.13—
Nov 22, 2025@Air ForceW4.30—
Nov 28, 2025vsSan Diego StateW5.17—
Dec 26, 2025vsMinnesota (neutral)L3.05—
Sep 5, 2026vsCentral MichiganW4.66—
Sep 12, 2026vsMMercyhurstW5.52—
Sep 19, 2026@OklahomaL1.82—
Sep 26, 2026@New Mexico StateW5.38—
Oct 3, 2026vsUTEPW5.50—
Oct 17, 2026@HawaiiW6.19—
Oct 24, 2026vsNNorth Dakota StateW4.63—
Oct 31, 2026@San Jose StateW5.52—

Method

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  • The two sides are the games before and after one date, so the shuffle moves any game between them.
  • Who played is read from the schools’ box scores’ participation lists for 14 of these 21 games; in the other 7 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.
  • 4 games in 2024 are neither with Toa Fa'avae nor without Toa Fa'avae: Toa Fa'avae had no game for the team that season, and sit out.