
Western Kentucky’s carries with Brock Glenn and without Brock Glenn
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Western Kentucky was 0.3 carries over with Brock Glenn and 1.0 carries over without Brock Glenn in 2026, 5 games against 2. The plain averages are 36.2 and 35.0, a difference of 1.2. Both ranked opponents were with Brock Glenn. Both top-10 opponents were with Brock Glenn.
Brock Glenn, quarterback: 887 passing yards, 165 pass attempts and 92 completions in 8 games this season, 32% of Western Kentucky’s carries in those games.
3 games without Brock Glenn is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
carries a game over expected
A −0.8 difference in carries over expected with Brock Glenn vs without Brock Glenn is about what you’d expect.
A +1.2 difference in carries with Brock Glenn vs without Brock Glenn is about what you’d expect.
The games
| Side | Date | Game | Result | carries | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 | @ | L | 42 | 32.7 | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | @ | L | 37 | 31.4 | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | @ | L | 28 | 35.7 | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | vsMMercyhurst | W | 32 | — | |
| Oct 1, 2026 | @ | L | 31 | 38.2 | |
| Oct 8, 2026 | vs | W | 40 | 38.8 | |
| Oct 14, 2026 | @ | W | 42 | 37.1 | |
| Oct 27, 2026 | vs | L | 34 | 36.6 |
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 0.6 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 61% 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.
- Mercyhurst 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 7 of these 8 games; in the other game a player is counted as in it 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.