Taylor Martinez likes road games and road games like him.
Martinez has repeatedly mentioned his preference for away games, most recently while looking ahead to this week’s game at Texas A&M:
“I heard [College Station] is a really tough place to play. I think it’ll be a really fun environment, a hostile environment to play in, and I think it’ll be really fun. I love playing in away games. I just love going up against that crowd.”
We’ve heard this from Martinez before. After the Kansas State game he said similar things:
“I love playing in these kinds of environments — I prefer to play in away games. I think it’s fun.”
Martinez has played in three road games in his young career — not exactly a significant sample size. But in each of those contests, he exploded:
@Washington: 287 total yards; 4TDs
@Kansas State: 369 yds.; 5TDs
@Oklahoma State: 435 yds.; 5TDs
Here’s the breakout of his three road starts against his six home starts:
ROAD GAME AVG.: 364 yds.; 4.7 TDs
HOME GAME AVG.: 199 yds.; 1.2 TDs
Note that four of the six home starts were against Western Kentucky, Idaho, South Dakota State and Kansas, so one can’t argue that the level of competition was softer on the road. And Martinez sat out parts of the fourth quarters of the KSU and Washington games so relative playing time isn’t much of a factor in these numbers, either. (If you want to allow for the fact that Martinez missed the second half of the MU game due to injury, doubling his MU stats will add back 22 to his home yardage average and 0.17 to his home TD average.)
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