Putting Up Numbers· college football

Vanderbilt’s yards a carry with Jared Curtis and without Jared Curtis

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Vanderbilt averaged 3.23 yards a carry with Jared Curtis and 4.08 without Jared Curtis over its last 25 games, 6 games against 2, a difference of 0.85.

Jared Curtis, quarterback: 1,489 passing yards, 197 pass attempts and 128 completions in 7 of those 25 games.

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

yards a carry a game

A −0.85 difference in yards a carry with Jared Curtis vs without Jared Curtis is about what you’d expect.

The games

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Vanderbilt’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Jared Curtis or without Jared Curtis
SideDateGameResultyards a carryExpected
Nov 9, 2024vsSouth CarolinaL3.86—
Nov 23, 2024@LSUL5.08—
Nov 30, 2024vsTennesseeL3.63—
Dec 27, 2024vsGeorgia Tech (neutral)W4.68—
Aug 30, 2025vsCCharleston SouthernW6.48—
Sep 6, 2025@Virginia TechW7.54—
Sep 13, 2025@South CarolinaW4.23—
Sep 20, 2025vsGeorgia StateW7.97—
Sep 27, 2025vsUtah StateW8.04—
Oct 4, 2025@AlabamaL7.56—
Oct 18, 2025vsLSUW5.76—
Oct 25, 2025vsMissouriW5.48—
Nov 1, 2025@TexasL2.42—
Nov 8, 2025vsAuburnW4.64—
Nov 22, 2025vsKentuckyW2.60—
Nov 29, 2025@TennesseeW8.49—
Dec 31, 2025vsIowa (neutral)L2.32—
Sep 5, 2026vsAAustin PeayW4.89—
Sep 12, 2026vsDelawareW3.09—
Sep 19, 2026vsNC StateW5.50—
Sep 26, 2026@AuburnL2.73—
Oct 3, 2026@GeorgiaL3.27—
Oct 10, 2026vsOle MissL3.06—
Oct 17, 2026vsArkansasL4—
Oct 24, 2026@KentuckyL1—

Method

Read against .

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 17 games in 2024 and 2025 are neither with Jared Curtis nor without Jared Curtis: Jared Curtis had no game for the team those seasons, and sit out.