Gus Ragland: QB · Miami (OH) · #14.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Gus Ragland
Operates within the system without forcing anything. A two-star recruit with four seasons on the field at Miami (OH) since. A game that shows it: 357 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Marshall — Week 1, 2018.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
61.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.2% conversion-per-dropback — 59.4% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
9 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (31.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Miami (OH) | 226 | 371 | 60.9% | 2,547 | 6.9 | 17 | 5 | 131.0 | 59 |
| 2017 | Miami (OH) | 152 | 270 | 56.3% | 2,041 | 7.6 | 19 | 7 | 137.8 | 53 |
| 2016 | Miami (OH) | 115 | 179 | 64.2% | 1,537 | 8.6 | 17 | 1 | 166.6 | 60 |
| 2015 | Miami (OH) | 20 | 29 | 69.0% | 196 | 6.8 | 3 | 0 | 159.9 | -- |
| Career | 513 | 849 | 60.4% | 6,321 | 7.4 | 56 | 13 | 141.7 | 57 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Miami (OH) | 92 | 214 | 2.3 | 7 | 27 |
| 2017 | Miami (OH) | 74 | 123 | 1.7 | 3 | 22 |
| 2016 | Miami (OH) | 84 | 202 | 2.4 | 2 | 20 |
| 2015 | Miami (OH) | 57 | 331 | 5.8 | 2 | 40 |
| Career | 307 | 870 | 2.8 | 14 | 40 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 28-35vs Marshall | 25/46 | 357 | 3 | 0 | 7.8 | — | Season-high 357 yds |
| Wk 2 | L 0-21vs Cincinnati | 22/41 | 139 | 0 | 1 | 3.4 | 18.9 | |
| Wk 3 | L 3-26@ Minnesota | 11/20 | 108 | 0 | 1 | 5.4 | — | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-23@ Bowling Green | 10/15 | 119 | 2 | 0 | 7.9 | — | |
| Wk 5 | L 39-40vs Western Michigan | 22/32 | 294 | 3 | 0 | 9.2 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | W 41-17@ Akron | 24/33 | 214 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | — | |
| Wk 7 | W 31-6vs Kent State | 16/24 | 209 | 1 | 0 | 8.7 | — | |
| Wk 8 | L 30-31@ Army | 30/53 | 329 | 4 | 0 | 6.2 | 63.2 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | L 42-51@ Buffalo | 20/35 | 313 | 1 | 0 | 8.9 | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 30-28vs Ohio | 20/32 | 199 | 1 | 1 | 6.2 | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 13-7@ Northern Illinois | 15/24 | 107 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 37.4 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-21vs Ball State | 11/16 | 159 | 1 | 1 | 9.9 | — | |
| Total | 226/371 | 2547 | 17 | 5 | 6.9 | — |
Week 8 · 2018
L 30-31
at Army
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 329 passing plays (203 completions) against the box score's 371 attempts (226 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.6289 of 207 QBsSack rate
4.6%55 of 207 QBsRarely sacked (55 of 207 QBs) and still 89 of 207 in Adjusted ANY/A.
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 60.9% completion on 371 attempts · 39 deep completions averaging 27.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
+67
percentile points better on third down or later
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
4 seasons under Chuck Martin — 20-29 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 226 | 1.5 | 7.5 | 0.5 |
| Road6g | 198 | 1.3 | 6.6 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 206 | 1.4 | 7.0 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 221 | 1.4 | 7.1 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chuck Martin
Pass share
46.5%
375 pass / 432 run
Plays / game
67.2
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
371 pass attempts and 92 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Miami (OH), 6,321 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 37 games over four seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Chuck Martin.
