Putting Up Numbers· college football

Tulane’s passing yards with Kadin Semonza and since Kadin Semonza’s last game

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Tulane was 26.2 yards under with Kadin Semonza and 22.6 yards over since Kadin Semonza’s last game over its last 25 games, 5 games against 3. The plain averages are 180.6 and 241.3, a difference of 60.7. All 4 nonconference games were with Kadin Semonza.

Kadin Semonza, quarterback: 804 passing yards, 119 pass attempts and 64 completions in 5 of those 25 games, 89% of Tulane’s passing yards in those games.

3 games since Kadin Semonza’s last game 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 −48.8 difference in passing yards over expected with Kadin Semonza vs since Kadin Semonza’s last game is about what you’d expect.

A −60.7 difference in passing yards with Kadin Semonza vs since Kadin Semonza’s last game is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Kadin Semonza and it comes up 8 times in 100.

The games

with Kadin Semonzasince Kadin Semonza’s last game
Tulane’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Kadin Semonza or since Kadin Semonza’s last game
SideDateGameResultpassing yardsExpected
Nov 28, 2024vsMemphisL317236.2
Dec 6, 2024@ArmyL209193.5
Dec 20, 2024vsFlorida (neutral)L125194.1
Aug 30, 2025vsNorthwesternW152224.3
Sep 6, 2025@South AlabamaW165236.3
Sep 13, 2025vsDukeW270273.6
Sep 20, 2025@Ole MissL104228.6
Sep 27, 2025@TulsaW252240.6
Oct 9, 2025vsEast CarolinaW362241.9
Oct 18, 2025vsArmyW261209.4
Oct 30, 2025@UTSAL299228.2
Nov 7, 2025@MemphisW332231.1
Nov 15, 2025vsFlorida AtlanticW241252.7
Nov 22, 2025@TempleW231242.4
Nov 29, 2025vsCharlotteW312269.3
Dec 5, 2025vsNorth TexasW145244.3
Dec 20, 2025@Ole MissL306206.9
Sep 5, 2026@DukeL204164.5
Sep 12, 2026vsSouth AlabamaW212240.0
Sep 19, 2026@Kansas StateL165161.7
Sep 26, 2026vsSouthern MissW164223.0
Oct 10, 2026@ArmyL158245.0
Oct 16, 2026vsMemphisW175217.8
Oct 24, 2026vsUTSAL265211.4
Oct 30, 2026@CharlotteW284227.0

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 two sides are the games before and after one date, so the shuffle moves any game between them.
  • 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.
  • 17 games in 2024 and 2025 are neither with Kadin Semonza nor since Kadin Semonza’s last game: Kadin Semonza had no game for the team those seasons, and sit out.