Troy’s rushing yards with Goose Crowder and without Goose Crowder
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Troy was 4.5 yards under with Goose Crowder and 1.6 yards over without Goose Crowder over its last 25 games, 11 games against 12. The plain averages are 148.5 and 131.0, a difference of 17.5. All 3 ranked opponents were with Goose Crowder. Both opponents outside the major colleges were with Goose Crowder.
Goose Crowder, quarterback: 2,489 passing yards, 379 pass attempts and 217 completions in 15 of those 25 games, 14% of Troy’s rushing yards in those games.
rushing yards a game over expected
with Goose Crowder
−4.5
without Goose Crowder
+1.6
-1000100200
A −6.1 difference in rushing yards over expected with Goose Crowder vs without Goose Crowder is about what you’d expect.
plain
148.5
131.0
0200400
A +17.5 difference in rushing yards with Goose Crowder vs without Goose Crowder is about what you’d expect.
The games
with Goose Crowderwithout Goose Crowder
| Side | Date | Game | Result | rushing yards | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2024 | @ Georgia Southern | W | 156 | 147.6 | |
| Nov 23, 2024 | @ Louisiana | L | 135 | 150.8 | |
| Nov 30, 2024 | vs Southern Miss | W | 272 | 194.6 | |
| Aug 30, 2025 | vsNNicholls | W | 273 | — | |
| Sep 6, 2025 | @ Clemson | L | 78 | 48.5 | |
| Sep 13, 2025 | vs Memphis | L | 40 | 78.8 | |
| Sep 20, 2025 | @ Buffalo | W | 164 | 126.2 | |
| Oct 4, 2025 | vs South Alabama | W | 217 | 104.5 | |
| Oct 11, 2025 | @ Texas State | W | 43 | 110.8 | |
| Oct 18, 2025 | @ Louisiana Monroe | W | 92 | 108.9 | |
| Oct 25, 2025 | vsLouisiana | W | 168 | 127.4 | |
| Nov 1, 2025 | vs Arkansas State | L | 27 | 135.6 | |
| Nov 13, 2025 | @ Old Dominion | L | 26 | 74.6 | |
| Nov 22, 2025 | vs Georgia State | W | 63 | 144.6 | |
| Nov 29, 2025 | @Southern Miss | W | 134 | 105.8 | |
| Dec 5, 2025 | @ James Madison | L | -26 | 33.7 | |
| Dec 16, 2025 | vs Jacksonville State (neutral) | L | 88 | 117.6 | |
| Sep 5, 2026 | vs Sam Houston | W | 178 | 211.2 | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | vsAAlabama State | W | 227 | — | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | @ Missouri | L | 93 | 106.1 | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | @ Utah State | L | 169 | 123.8 | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | vsSouthern Miss | W | 437 | 197.4 | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | @Louisiana | L | 126 | 182.8 | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | vsLouisiana Monroe | L | 153 | 252.4 | |
| Oct 29, 2026 | @James Madison | W | 170 | 150.1 |
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 3.8 in 2024, plus 5.9 in 2025, plus 8.0 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 75% in 2024, 77% in 2025, 60% 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.
- Nicholls, Alabama State 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.