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New Haven vs Wagner: prediction and projected score

We project New Haven 29-22, a 7.5-point margin with 50.6 total points; New Haven wins 69% of the time.

Matchup analysis

Our model projects New Haven 29, Wagner 22 at Hameline Field at Wagner College Stadium in Week 11. That is a solid edge: New Haven wins about 69% of the time by our estimate, with a projected margin of 7.5 points and 50.6 combined points.

New Haven is 2-6 against the 74th-toughest schedule so far, scoring 15.3 and allowing 29 points per game (-13.7 per game). Wagner is 1-7 against the 64th-toughest schedule so far, scoring 13.1 and allowing 38.8 points per game (-25.7 per game).

College football is noisy: even a well-rated projection misses the final margin by about 14 points on average. Based on how real results have scattered around our numbers, the final margin should land somewhere between New Haven by 30 and Wagner by 15 about 80% of the time.

Wagner gets about 2.1 points for playing at home. New Haven is still favoured on the road, so the ratings gap is bigger than the value of playing at home.

Market lines

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New Haven vs Wagner: stat comparison

Basic
StatNew HavenWagner
Points per game15.313.1
Points allowed per game29.038.8
Yards per play4.624.43
Yards per play allowed6.176.78
Rushing yards per game103.592.5
Net passing yards per game191.5190.6
Rushing yards allowed per game155.8187.0
Net passing yards allowed per game209.0229.8
Turnovers per game1.130.88
Takeaways per game0.881.00
Sacks per game2.131.13
Sacks allowed per game1.752.75
Advanced
StatNew HavenWagner
EPA per play-0.09-0.10
EPA per play allowed+0.05+0.10
Success rate35.7%33.6%
Success rate allowed40.2%44.2%
Explosive play rate10.1%6.6%
Explosive plays allowed13.3%15.5%
Havoc rate14.1%12.6%
Havoc allowed18.6%16.3%
Points per scoring opportunity2.532.98
Points per opportunity allowed3.724.15
Average starting field positionopp 0opp 20
Opponents' starting field positionopp 0opp 15
Offensive plays per game (pace)63.963.9
Situational
StatNew HavenWagner
Rushing EPA per play-0.12-0.13
Passing EPA per play-0.07-0.07
Rushing EPA allowed-0.03+0.16
Passing EPA allowed+0.12+0.02
Rushing success rate33.0%27.2%
Passing success rate33.5%37.1%
Run stuff rate26.1%23.9%
Passing-down success rate24.2%25.4%
Passing-down success allowed31.4%35.8%
Third-down conversion rate31.3%27.1%
Third-down rate allowed33.7%42.9%
Red-zone touchdown rate44.2%50.8%
Red-zone TD rate allowed57.6%59.2%

# = rank among 138 FBS teams. Efficiency numbers exclude garbage time. Per-play numbers of teams with a weak schedule are pulled toward their opponent-adjusted values (fully at one standard deviation below an average schedule). Source: play-by-play (cfbfastR / sportsdataverse), aggregated by us.

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