Ole Miss’ penalty yards with Kewan Lacy and without Kewan Lacy
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Ole Miss was 1.4 yards over with Kewan Lacy and 24.4 yards over without Kewan Lacy over its last 25 games, 20 games against 2. The plain averages are 55.1 and 82.0, a difference of 26.9. All 3 neutral-site games were with Kewan Lacy. All 9 night games were with Kewan Lacy. All 5 top-10 opponents were with Kewan Lacy.
Kewan Lacy, running back: 1,955 rushing yards, 384 carries and 39 receptions in 21 of those 25 games.
2 games without Kewan Lacy is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
penalty yards a game over expected
A −23.0 difference in penalty yards over expected with Kewan Lacy vs without Kewan Lacy is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Kewan Lacy and it comes up 7 times in 100.
A −26.9 difference in penalty yards with Kewan Lacy vs without Kewan Lacy is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Kewan Lacy and it comes up 5 times in 100.
The games
| Side | Date | Game | Result | penalty yards | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 2024 | vs Mississippi State | W | 40 | 65.9 | |
| Jan 2, 2025 | vs Duke (neutral) | W | 45 | 68.6 | |
| Aug 30, 2025 | vs Georgia State | W | 51 | 56.0 | |
| Sep 6, 2025 | @ Kentucky | W | 86 | 52.8 | |
| Sep 13, 2025 | vs Arkansas | W | 63 | 49.9 | |
| Sep 20, 2025 | vs Tulane | W | 35 | 54.7 | |
| Sep 27, 2025 | vs LSU | W | 109 | 51.9 | |
| Oct 11, 2025 | vs Washington State | W | 99 | 56.0 | |
| Oct 18, 2025 | @ Georgia | L | 40 | 53.6 | |
| Oct 25, 2025 | @ Oklahoma | W | 50 | 47.6 | |
| Nov 1, 2025 | vs South Carolina | W | 60 | 54.0 | |
| Nov 8, 2025 | vs The Citadel | W | 24 | — | |
| Nov 15, 2025 | vs Florida | W | 32 | 49.5 | |
| Nov 28, 2025 | @Mississippi State | W | 50 | 64.2 | |
| Dec 20, 2025 | vsTulane | W | 5 | 56.9 | |
| Jan 1, 2026 | vsGeorgia (neutral) | W | 48 | 52.0 | |
| Jan 8, 2026 | vs Miami (FL) (neutral) | L | 34 | 48.2 | |
| Sep 6, 2026 | vs Louisville (neutral) | W | 60 | 61.8 | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | vs Charlotte | W | 52 | 62.8 | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vsLSU | W | 77 | 54.7 | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | @Florida | L | 69 | 56.7 | |
| Oct 10, 2026 | @ Vanderbilt | W | 70 | 57.2 | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | vs Missouri | W | 55 | 63.9 | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | @ Texas | L | 58 | 57.7 | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | vs Auburn | W | 95 | 58.5 |
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, minus 2.1 in 2025, minus 1.3 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 45% in 2025, 27% 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.
- The Citadel 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, which name every player who entered the game.
- 2 games in 2024 are neither with Kewan Lacy nor without Kewan Lacy: Kewan Lacy had no game for the team that season, and sit out.