South Alabama’s rushing yards with Jared Hollins and without Jared Hollins
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, South Alabama was 30.3 yards over with Jared Hollins and 18.4 yards under without Jared Hollins in 2026, 6 games against 1. The plain averages are 217.7 and 211.5, a difference of 6.2. Expected was 13.1 yards lower with Jared Hollins than without Jared Hollins. Both day games were with Jared Hollins. All 4 conference games were with Jared Hollins. Both games after a bye were with Jared Hollins.
Jared Hollins, quarterback: 1,195 passing yards, 156 pass attempts and 82 completions in 7 games this season, 10% of South Alabama’s rushing yards in those games.
2 games without Jared Hollins is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
rushing yards a game over expected
A +6.2 difference in rushing yards with Jared Hollins vs without Jared Hollins is about what you’d expect.
The games
| Side | Date | Game | Result | rushing yards | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 | vsSS E Louisiana | W | 241 | — | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | @ Tulane | L | 182 | 200.4 | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vs Ohio | W | 266 | 172.0 | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | @ Kentucky | L | 103 | 144.7 | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | vs Louisiana Monroe | W | 249 | 238.7 | |
| Oct 8, 2026 | @ Arkansas State | W | 305 | 201.1 | |
| Oct 20, 2026 | @ Marshall | L | 178 | 211.2 | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | vs Louisiana Tech | L | 205 | 156.3 |
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, plus 8.1 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 60% of the difference the model predicts.
- The two sides are the games before and after one date, so the shuffle moves any game between them.
- S E Louisiana 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.
- 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.