Putting Up Numbers· college football

UCF’s total yards with Keyone Jenkins and without Keyone Jenkins

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, UCF was 7.0 yards over with Keyone Jenkins and 146.2 yards under without Keyone Jenkins over its last 25 games, 6 games against 1. The plain averages are 352.5 and 383.0, a difference of 30.5. All 3 ranked opponents were with Keyone Jenkins. All 5 conference games were with Keyone Jenkins.

Keyone Jenkins, quarterback: 1,181 passing yards, 180 pass attempts and 122 completions in 8 of those 25 games.

2 games without Keyone Jenkins is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

total yards a game over expected

A −30.5 difference in total yards with Keyone Jenkins vs without Keyone Jenkins is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Keyone Jenkinswithout Keyone Jenkins
UCF’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Keyone Jenkins or without Keyone Jenkins
SideDateGameResulttotal yardsExpected
Oct 26, 2024vsBYUL379389.7
Nov 2, 2024vsArizonaW602456.8
Nov 9, 2024@Arizona StateL406386.9
Nov 23, 2024@West VirginiaL348454.7
Nov 29, 2024vsUtahL379411.1
Aug 28, 2025vsJacksonville StateW424422.6
Sep 6, 2025vsNNorth Carolina A&TW564—
Sep 20, 2025vsNorth CarolinaW368359.0
Sep 27, 2025@Kansas StateL402352.9
Oct 4, 2025vsKansasL375394.1
Oct 11, 2025@CincinnatiL413390.6
Oct 18, 2025vsWest VirginiaW579370.8
Nov 1, 2025@BaylorL234391.6
Nov 7, 2025vsHoustonL282382.0
Nov 15, 2025@Texas TechL238263.1
Nov 22, 2025vsOklahoma StateW399391.7
Nov 29, 2025@BYUL298322.0
Sep 3, 2026vsBBethune-CookmanW560—
Sep 12, 2026@PittsburghL206352.2
Sep 19, 2026vsGeorgia StateW390414.2
Sep 26, 2026vsTCUW266299.5
Oct 3, 2026@HoustonL332321.3
Oct 10, 2026@Oklahoma StateL375377.1
Oct 24, 2026vsBYUW471280.2
Oct 30, 2026vsBaylorL281380.4

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 12.1 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 67% 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.
  • 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 Keyone Jenkins nor without Keyone Jenkins: Keyone Jenkins had no game for the team those seasons, and sit out.