Putting Up Numbers· college football

San Jose State’s yards a carry with Luke Weaver and without Luke Weaver

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San Jose State averaged 3.33 yards a carry with Luke Weaver and 4.41 without Luke Weaver over its last 25 games, 7 games against 2, a difference of 1.08. All 4 home games were with Luke Weaver. All 4 nonconference games were with Luke Weaver.

Luke Weaver, quarterback: 1,810 passing yards, 242 pass attempts and 154 completions in 8 of those 25 games.

2 games without Luke Weaver is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

yards a carry a game

A −1.08 difference in yards a carry with Luke Weaver vs without Luke Weaver is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Luke Weaverwithout Luke Weaver
San Jose State’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Luke Weaver or without Luke Weaver
SideDateGameResultyards a carryExpected
Nov 16, 2024vsBoise StateL1.81—
Nov 22, 2024vsUNLVL1.38—
Nov 29, 2024vsStanfordW3.21—
Dec 24, 2024vsSouth Florida (neutral)L4.63—
Aug 29, 2025vsCentral MichiganL3.13—
Sep 6, 2025@TexasL3.07—
Sep 20, 2025vsIdahoW7.62—
Sep 27, 2025@StanfordL4—
Oct 3, 2025vsNew MexicoW4.62—
Oct 11, 2025@WyomingL1.54—
Oct 17, 2025@Utah StateL7.19—
Nov 1, 2025vsHawaiiW6.73—
Nov 8, 2025vsAir ForceL5.53—
Nov 15, 2025@NevadaL4.92—
Nov 22, 2025@San Diego StateL3.69—
Nov 29, 2025vsFresno StateL4.35—
Aug 29, 2026@USCL4.25—
Sep 4, 2026@Eastern MichiganW4.09—
Sep 12, 2026vsCCal PolyW5.80—
Sep 19, 2026vsFresno StateL2.84—
Oct 3, 2026@HawaiiW2.29—
Oct 9, 2026vsWyomingL2.68—
Oct 17, 2026@UTEPW6.66—
Oct 24, 2026@NevadaL2.17—
Oct 31, 2026vsNew MexicoL1.37—

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 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.
  • 16 games in 2024 and 2025 are neither with Luke Weaver nor without Luke Weaver: Luke Weaver had no game for the team those seasons, and sit out.