Putting Up Numbers· college football

Penn State’s yards a carry with Quinton Martin Jr. and without Quinton Martin Jr.

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Penn State averaged 3.69 yards a carry with Quinton Martin Jr. and 5.82 without Quinton Martin Jr. over its last 25 games, 13 games against 12, a difference of 2.13.

Quinton Martin Jr., running back: 270 rushing yards, 54 carries and 5 receptions in 8 of those 25 games.

yards a carry a game

A −2.13 difference in yards a carry with Quinton Martin Jr. vs without Quinton Martin Jr. is unusual: shuffle which games were with Quinton Martin Jr. and it comes up once in 100.

The games

with Quinton Martin Jr.without Quinton Martin Jr.
Penn State’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Quinton Martin Jr. or without Quinton Martin Jr.
SideDateGameResultyards a carryExpected
Dec 7, 2024vsOregon (neutral)L8.74—
Dec 21, 2024vsSMUW4.73—
Dec 31, 2024vsBoise State (neutral)W5.43—
Jan 9, 2025vsNotre Dame (neutral)L4.86—
Aug 30, 2025vsNevadaW3.75—
Sep 6, 2025vsFlorida InternationalW6.74—
Sep 13, 2025vsVillanovaW6.24—
Sep 27, 2025vsOregonL3.97—
Oct 4, 2025@UCLAL5.06—
Oct 11, 2025vsNorthwesternL4.42—
Oct 18, 2025@IowaL3.76—
Nov 1, 2025@Ohio StateL1.77—
Nov 8, 2025vsIndianaL3.55—
Nov 15, 2025@Michigan StateW5.06—
Nov 22, 2025vsNebraskaW6.16—
Nov 29, 2025@RutgersW9.41—
Dec 27, 2025vsClemson (neutral)W3.59—
Sep 5, 2026vsMarshallW3.62—
Sep 12, 2026@TempleW4.35—
Sep 19, 2026vsBuffaloW7.41—
Sep 26, 2026vsWisconsinL3.31—
Oct 2, 2026@NorthwesternL2.18—
Oct 10, 2026vsUSCL2.19—
Oct 17, 2026@MichiganL2.28—
Oct 31, 2026vsPurdueW5.27—

Method

Read against .

  • 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.
  • Who played is read from the schools’ box scores’ participation lists for 13 of these 25 games; in the other 12 a player is counted as in them when the box score has a stat for him.