Vanderbilt’s third-down conversion rate with Blaze Berlowitz and without Blaze Berlowitz
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Vanderbilt was 6.0 percentage points over with Blaze Berlowitz and 1.3 percentage points over without Blaze Berlowitz in 2026, 1 game against 6. The plain averages are 37.5% and 42.5%, a difference of 5.0%. Expected was 5.6 percentage points lower with Blaze Berlowitz than without Blaze Berlowitz.
Blaze Berlowitz, quarterback: 386 passing yards, 53 pass attempts and 28 completions in 5 games this season.
2 games with Blaze Berlowitz is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
third-down conversion rate a game over expected
with Blaze Berlowitz
+6.0%
without Blaze Berlowitz
+1.3%
-10%0%10%
plain
37.5%
42.5%
30%40%50%
A −5.0% difference in third-down conversion rate with Blaze Berlowitz vs without Blaze Berlowitz is about what you’d expect.
The games
with Blaze Berlowitzwithout Blaze Berlowitz
| Side | Date | Game | Result | 3rd downs | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 | vsAAustin Peay | W | 33.3% | — | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | vs Delaware | W | 33.3% | 42.8% | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vs NC State | W | 41.7% | 40.9% | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | @ Auburn | L | 23.5% | 40.8% | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | @ Georgia | L | 41.7% | 35.6% | |
| Oct 10, 2026 | vs Ole Miss | L | 52.9% | 39.7% | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | vs Arkansas | L | 45.5% | 43.7% | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | @ Kentucky | L | 58.3% | 39.5% |
Method
- 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 1.4% 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 40% 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.
- Austin Peay 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 4 of these 8 games; in the other 4 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.