Putting Up Numbers· college football

South Alabama’s total yards with Jared Hollins and without Jared Hollins

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, South Alabama was 6.1 yards over with Jared Hollins and 76.6 yards over without Jared Hollins in 2026, 6 games against 1. The plain averages are 416.8 and 436.5, a difference of 19.7. 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.

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.

total yards a game over expected

A −19.7 difference in total yards with Jared Hollins vs without Jared Hollins is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Jared Hollinswithout Jared Hollins
South Alabama’s games, 2026, each marked with Jared Hollins or without Jared Hollins
SideDateGameResulttotal yardsExpected
Sep 5, 2026vsSS E LouisianaW395—
Sep 12, 2026@TulaneL478401.4
Sep 19, 2026vsOhioW458424.3
Sep 26, 2026@KentuckyL369335.6
Oct 3, 2026vsLouisiana MonroeW570425.5
Oct 8, 2026@Arkansas StateW381411.3
Oct 20, 2026@MarshallL326471.3
Oct 31, 2026vsLouisiana TechL397396.4

Method

Read against .

  • 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 12.1 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 67% 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.