Texas Tech’s carries with Will Hammond and without Will Hammond
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Texas Tech was 0.7 carries under with Will Hammond and 1.9 carries over without Will Hammond over its last 25 games, 10 games against 13. The plain averages are 37.0 and 38.7, a difference of 1.7. Both top-10 opponents were without Will Hammond. Both games while in the top 5 were without Will Hammond.
Will Hammond, quarterback: 2,521 passing yards, 349 pass attempts and 228 completions in 17 of those 25 games, 14% of Texas Tech’s carries in those games.
carries a game over expected
A −2.6 difference in carries over expected with Will Hammond vs without Will Hammond is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Will Hammond and it comes up 15 times in 100.
A −1.7 difference in carries with Will Hammond vs without Will Hammond is about what you’d expect.
The games
| Side | Date | Game | Result | carries | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 2024 | @ Oklahoma State | W | 38 | 40.0 | |
| Nov 30, 2024 | vs West Virginia | W | 32 | 34.4 | |
| Dec 27, 2024 | vs Arkansas (neutral) | L | 37 | 36.4 | |
| Aug 30, 2025 | vsAArkansas-Pine Bluff | W | 28 | — | |
| Sep 6, 2025 | vs Kent State | W | 40 | 42.9 | |
| Sep 13, 2025 | vs Oregon State | W | 38 | 36.4 | |
| Sep 20, 2025 | @ Utah | W | 37 | 40.6 | |
| Oct 4, 2025 | @ Houston | W | 48 | 35.8 | |
| Oct 11, 2025 | vs Kansas | W | 40 | 38.2 | |
| Oct 18, 2025 | @ Arizona State | L | 27 | 35.7 | |
| Oct 25, 2025 | vsOklahoma State | W | 38 | 39.7 | |
| Nov 1, 2025 | @ Kansas State | W | 42 | 40.1 | |
| Nov 8, 2025 | vs BYU | W | 41 | 34.5 | |
| Nov 15, 2025 | vs UCF | W | 33 | 39.3 | |
| Nov 29, 2025 | @West Virginia | W | 51 | 37.7 | |
| Dec 6, 2025 | vsBYU (neutral) | W | 38 | 34.6 | |
| Jan 1, 2026 | vs Oregon (neutral) | L | 30 | 36.2 | |
| Sep 5, 2026 | vsAAbilene Christian | W | 39 | — | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | @Oregon State | W | 47 | 35.6 | |
| Sep 18, 2026 | vsHouston | W | 31 | 34.7 | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | vs Sam Houston | W | 35 | 43.2 | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | @ Colorado | W | 37 | 39.0 | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | vsArizona State | W | 37 | 35.3 | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | @ Cincinnati | L | 39 | 37.3 | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | vs Arizona | W | 46 | 36.7 |
Method
- Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every game of its season between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, plus 0.1 in 2024, plus 0.3 in 2025, plus 0.6 in 2026 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 73% in 2024, 74% in 2025, 61% in 2026 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.
- Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Abilene Christian have no other game in the table, so those games have no expected number and sit out the second figure.
- Who played is read from the schools’ box scores’ participation lists for 22 of these 25 games; in the other 3 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.