Texas’ yards a carry with Derrek Cooper and without Derrek Cooper
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Texas averaged 3.68 yards a carry with Derrek Cooper and 3.43 without Derrek Cooper over its last 25 games, 6 games against 2, a difference of 0.26.
Derrek Cooper, running back: 103 rushing yards, 29 carries and 2 receptions in 6 of those 25 games.
2 games without Derrek Cooper 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
with Derrek Cooper
3.68
without Derrek Cooper
3.43
2345
A +0.26 difference in yards a carry with Derrek Cooper vs without Derrek Cooper is about what you’d expect.
The games
with Derrek Cooperwithout Derrek Cooper
| Side | Date | Game | Result | yards a carry | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 2024 | vs Georgia (neutral) | L | 1.11 | — | |
| Dec 21, 2024 | vs Clemson | W | 6.41 | — | |
| Jan 1, 2025 | vs Arizona State (neutral) | W | 1.90 | — | |
| Jan 10, 2025 | vs Ohio State (neutral) | L | 2 | — | |
| Aug 30, 2025 | @Ohio State | L | 4.49 | — | |
| Sep 6, 2025 | vs San Jose State | W | 4.84 | — | |
| Sep 13, 2025 | vs UTEP | W | 4.13 | — | |
| Sep 20, 2025 | vs Sam Houston | W | 6.44 | — | |
| Oct 4, 2025 | @ Florida | L | 2 | — | |
| Oct 11, 2025 | vs Oklahoma (neutral) | W | 4.31 | — | |
| Oct 18, 2025 | @ Kentucky | W | 1.88 | — | |
| Oct 25, 2025 | @ Mississippi State | W | 2.25 | — | |
| Nov 1, 2025 | vs Vanderbilt | W | 3.88 | — | |
| Nov 15, 2025 | @Georgia | L | 1.35 | — | |
| Nov 22, 2025 | vs Arkansas | W | 3.63 | — | |
| Nov 28, 2025 | vs Texas A&M | W | 6.67 | — | |
| Dec 31, 2025 | vs Michigan (neutral) | W | 8.32 | — | |
| Sep 5, 2026 | vs Texas State | W | 4.33 | — | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | vsOhio State | W | 3.55 | — | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vs UTSA | W | 4.75 | — | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | @ Tennessee | W | 2.09 | — | |
| Oct 10, 2026 | vsOklahoma (neutral) | L | 3.81 | — | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | vsFlorida | L | 3.30 | — | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | vs Ole Miss | W | 5.23 | — | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | vsMississippi State | W | 1.88 | — |
Method
- 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 8 games; in the other game a player is counted as in it when the box score has a stat for him.
- 17 games in 2024 and 2025 are neither with Derrek Cooper nor without Derrek Cooper: Derrek Cooper had no game for the team those seasons, and sit out.