Putting Up Numbers· college football

Texas A&M’s passing yards with Jamarion Morrow and without Jamarion Morrow

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Texas A&M was 11.3 yards under with Jamarion Morrow and 21.3 yards under without Jamarion Morrow in 2026, 4 games against 3. The plain averages are 203.8 and 170.7, a difference of 33.1. All 3 nonconference games were with Jamarion Morrow.

Jamarion Morrow, running back: 146 rushing yards, 40 carries and 8 receptions in 5 games this season.

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

passing yards a game over expected

A +10.0 difference in passing yards over expected with Jamarion Morrow vs without Jamarion Morrow is about what you’d expect.

A +33.1 difference in passing yards with Jamarion Morrow vs without Jamarion Morrow is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Jamarion Morrowwithout Jamarion Morrow
Texas A&M’s games, 2026, each marked with Jamarion Morrow or without Jamarion Morrow
SideDateGameResultpassing yardsExpected
Sep 5, 2026vsMissouri StateW269214.8
Sep 12, 2026vsArizona StateW163211.7
Sep 19, 2026vsKentuckyL236189.8
Sep 26, 2026@LSUL106176.1
Oct 3, 2026vsArkansasW170210.1
Oct 10, 2026@MissouriL187201.0
Oct 17, 2026vsThe CitadelW237—
Oct 24, 2026@AlabamaL163199.6

Method

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  • 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 4.1 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 59% 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 for 2 of these 8 games; in the other 6 a player is counted as in them when the box score has a stat for him.