Putting Up Numbers· college football

UCF’s rushing yards with Taevion Swint and since Taevion Swint’s last game

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, UCF was 12.0 yards under with Taevion Swint and 12.4 yards under since Taevion Swint’s last game over its last 25 games, 5 games against 2. The plain averages are 162.2 and 122.0, a difference of 40.2. All 3 away games were with Taevion Swint. All 3 nonconference games were with Taevion Swint.

Taevion Swint, running back: 162 rushing yards, 32 carries and 4 receptions in 6 of those 25 games, 17% of UCF’s rushing yards in those games.

2 games since Taevion Swint’s last game is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

rushing yards a game over expected

A +0.4 difference in rushing yards over expected with Taevion Swint vs since Taevion Swint’s last game is about what you’d expect.

A +40.2 difference in rushing yards with Taevion Swint vs since Taevion Swint’s last game is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Taevion Swintsince Taevion Swint’s last game
UCF’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Taevion Swint or since Taevion Swint’s last game
SideDateGameResultrushing yardsExpected
Oct 26, 2024vsBYUL181201.0
Nov 2, 2024vsArizonaW308224.8
Nov 9, 2024@Arizona StateL177176.6
Nov 23, 2024@West VirginiaL176202.0
Nov 29, 2024vsUtahL173216.4
Aug 28, 2025vsJacksonville StateW110191.8
Sep 6, 2025vsNNorth Carolina A&TW360—
Sep 20, 2025vsNorth CarolinaW145151.5
Sep 27, 2025@Kansas StateL205136.3
Oct 4, 2025vsKansasL199154.9
Oct 11, 2025@CincinnatiL191158.1
Oct 18, 2025vsWest VirginiaW256120.6
Nov 1, 2025@BaylorL83188.9
Nov 7, 2025vsHoustonL146144.5
Nov 15, 2025@Texas TechL6067.6
Nov 22, 2025vsOklahoma StateW128156.8
Nov 29, 2025@BYUL44127.3
Sep 3, 2026vsBBethune-CookmanW360—
Sep 12, 2026@PittsburghL20121.4
Sep 19, 2026vsGeorgia StateW304153.3
Sep 26, 2026vsTCUW106134.9
Oct 3, 2026@HoustonL73114.9
Oct 10, 2026@Oklahoma StateL110148.5
Oct 24, 2026vsBYUW178120.5
Oct 30, 2026vsBaylorL66148.3

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 8.1 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 60% 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.
  • Bethune-Cookman 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 6 of these 8 games; in the other 2 a player is counted as in them when the box score has a stat for him.
  • 17 games in 2024 and 2025 are neither with Taevion Swint nor since Taevion Swint’s last game: Taevion Swint had no game for the team those seasons, and sit out.