Putting Up Numbers· college football

Old Dominion’s penalty yards with Quinn Henicle and without Quinn Henicle

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Old Dominion was 4.5 yards under with Quinn Henicle and 20.9 yards over without Quinn Henicle in 2026, 4 games against 4. The plain averages are 57.0 and 80.0, a difference of 23.0. All 3 nonconference games were with Quinn Henicle.

Quinn Henicle, quarterback: 654 passing yards, 98 pass attempts and 54 completions in 6 games this season.

penalty yards a game over expected

A −25.4 difference in penalty yards over expected with Quinn Henicle vs without Quinn Henicle is about what you’d expect.

A −23.0 difference in penalty yards with Quinn Henicle vs without Quinn Henicle is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Quinn Henicle and it comes up 18 times in 100.

The games

with Quinn Heniclewithout Quinn Henicle
Old Dominion’s games, 2026, each marked with Quinn Henicle or without Quinn Henicle
SideDateGameResultpenalty yardsExpected
Sep 5, 2026vsNNorfolk StateW65—
Sep 12, 2026@Virginia TechL4560.7
Sep 19, 2026vsEast CarolinaL9557.4
Sep 26, 2026vsJames MadisonL9657.9
Oct 3, 2026@Georgia StateL4556.9
Oct 10, 2026@Appalachian StateW3563.2
Oct 15, 2026vsGeorgia SouthernL10058.8
Oct 24, 2026@Louisiana TechL3268.7
Oct 31, 2026vsMarshallL9251.1

Method

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  • 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.
  • Norfolk State 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 for 7 of these 9 games; in the other 2 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.