Ohio’s penalty yards with Nick Poulos and without Nick Poulos
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Ohio was 24.3 yards under with Nick Poulos and 2.6 yards under without Nick Poulos in 2026, 3 games against 3. The plain averages are 34.0 and 48.0, a difference of 14.0.
Nick Poulos, quarterback: 966 passing yards, 117 pass attempts and 69 completions in 6 games this season.
penalty yards a game over expected
with Nick Poulos
−24.3
without Nick Poulos
−2.6
-200
A −21.7 difference in penalty yards over expected with Nick Poulos vs without Nick Poulos is about what you’d expect.
plain
34.0
48.0
4060
A −14.0 difference in penalty yards with Nick Poulos vs without Nick Poulos is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Nick Poulos and it comes up 16 times in 100.
The games
with Nick Pouloswithout Nick Poulos
| Side | Date | Game | Result | penalty yards | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 | @ Nebraska | L | 30 | 52.2 | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | vs Jacksonville State | W | 25 | 58.4 | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | @ South Alabama | L | 52 | 46.0 | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | vsSStonehill | W | 45 | — | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | @ Kent State | W | 70 | 50.4 | |
| Oct 10, 2026 | vs Central Michigan | W | 26 | 47.9 | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | @SSacramento State | W | 55 | — | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | vs Eastern Michigan | W | 25 | 53.8 |
Method
- 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 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.
- Stonehill, Sacramento 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, 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.