Putting Up Numbers· college football

Western Kentucky’s total yards with Brock Glenn and without Brock Glenn

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Western Kentucky was 31.6 yards under with Brock Glenn and 31.8 yards over without Brock Glenn over its last 25 games, 5 games against 2. The plain averages are 326.2 and 441.3, a difference of 115.1. 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 of those 25 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.

total yards a game over expected

A −63.5 difference in total yards over expected with Brock Glenn vs without Brock Glenn is about what you’d expect.

A −115.1 difference in total yards with Brock Glenn vs without Brock Glenn is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Brock Glennwithout Brock Glenn
Western Kentucky’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Brock Glenn or without Brock Glenn
SideDateGameResulttotal yardsExpected
Nov 23, 2024@LibertyL369367.9
Nov 30, 2024vsJacksonville StateW426404.6
Dec 6, 2024@Jacksonville StateL229417.6
Dec 18, 2024vsJames Madison (neutral)L318331.4
Aug 23, 2025vsSam HoustonW506467.0
Aug 30, 2025vsNNorth AlabamaW564—
Sep 6, 2025@ToledoL333319.9
Sep 20, 2025vsNevadaW362372.2
Sep 27, 2025@Missouri StateW478369.3
Oct 3, 2025@DelawareW338425.6
Oct 14, 2025vsFlorida InternationalL341419.5
Oct 21, 2025@Louisiana TechW340402.3
Nov 1, 2025vsNew Mexico StateW434416.2
Nov 15, 2025vsMiddle TennesseeW643392.9
Nov 22, 2025@LSUL153302.6
Nov 29, 2025@Jacksonville StateL386393.1
Dec 23, 2025vsSouthern Miss (neutral)W422410.5
Sep 5, 2026@NevadaL367309.1
Sep 12, 2026@GeorgiaL225284.7
Sep 19, 2026@IndianaL188273.5
Sep 26, 2026vsMMercyhurstW600—
Oct 1, 2026@New Mexico StateL357351.3
Oct 8, 2026vsMissouri StateW464431.9
Oct 14, 2026@Sam HoustonW277377.0
Oct 27, 2026vsDelawareL477422.1

Method

Read against .

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