Austin Aune: QB · North Texas · #2.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Austin Aune
Pushes it downfield on every look. Fourth year in the same quarterback room at North Texas. First career honor, 2022: All-Conference USA. One game to point at: 414 passing yards and 20 rushing yards against Florida International — Week 10, 2022.
Play style
Elite arm talent, pushing downfield. Completion rate is the variable.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
53.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 33.9% conversion-per-dropback — 32.1% 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
4 of the team's 38 inside-the-5 carries (10.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
University of North Texas Athletics Oct 20
CBS News Oct 16Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | North Texas | 232 | 409 | 56.7% | 3,547 | 8.7 | 33 | 15 | 148.9 | 78 |
| 2021 | North Texas | 151 | 295 | 51.2% | 1,991 | 6.7 | 9 | 9 | 111.8 | 31 |
| 2020 | North Texas | 101 | 185 | 54.6% | 1,650 | 8.9 | 13 | 4 | 148.4 | 59 |
| 2019 | North Texas | 4 | 5 | 80.0% | 136 | 27.2 | 1 | 0 | 374.5 | -- |
| Career | 488 | 894 | 54.6% | 7,324 | 8.2 | 56 | 28 | 137.8 | 60 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | North Texas | 44 | 52 | 1.2 | 1 | 16 |
| 2021 | North Texas | 80 | 325 | 4.1 | 3 | 22 |
| 2020 | North Texas | 27 | 29 | 1.1 | 2 | 9 |
| 2019 | North Texas | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 151 | 406 | 2.7 | 6 | 22 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-13@ UTEP | 16/29 | 236 | 3 | 0 | 8.1 | 82.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 1 | L 10-48vs SMU | 14/29 | 186 | 0 | 2 | 6.4 | 69.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 59-27vs Texas Southern | 11/20 | 218 | 4 | 0 | 10.9 | 80.4 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 27-58@ UNLV | 17/29 | 305 | 2 | 2 | 10.5 | 81.0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 34-44@ Memphis | 27/49 | 371 | 3 | 2 | 7.6 | 27.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 45-28vs Florida Atlantic | 14/20 | 180 | 3 | 1 | 9.0 | 76.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 47-27vs Louisiana Tech | 11/20 | 196 | 2 | 1 | 9.8 | 85.8 | |
| Wk 8 | L 27-31@ UTSA | 15/31 | 325 | 3 | 1 | 10.5 | 60.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 40-13@ Western Kentucky | 20/28 | 322 | 3 | 0 | 11.5 | 87.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | W 52-14vs Florida International | 25/34 | 414 | 5 | 2 | 12.2 | 89.3 | Season-high 414 yds |
| Wk 11 | L 21-41@ UAB | 15/32 | 159 | 1 | 0 | 5.0 | 62.1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 21-17vs Rice | 16/29 | 203 | 2 | 0 | 7.0 | 39.5 | |
| Wk 14 | L 27-48@ No. 23 UTSA | 14/28 | 194 | 1 | 2 | 6.9 | — | |
 Bowl | L 32-35vs Boise State | 17/31 | 238 | 1 | 2 | 7.7 | — | |
| Total | 232/409 | 3547 | 33 | 15 | 8.7 | — |
Week 2 · 2022
W 59-27
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 397 passing plays (228 completions) against the box score's 409 attempts (232 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.3425 of 206 QBsSack rate
2.4%18 of 206 QBsRarely sacked (18 of 206 QBs) and still 25 of 206 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 56.7% completion on 409 attempts · 57 deep completions averaging 35.2 yds.
4 seasons under Seth Littrell — 21-28 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 233 | 2.7 | 9.2 | 1.0 |
| Road7g | 273 | 2.3 | 8.6 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 241 | 2.2 | 8.8 | 1.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 270 | 2.5 | 8.8 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Seth Littrell
Pass share
44.8%
428 pass / 528 run
Plays / game
68.3
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2022
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Four seasons at North Texas, 7,324 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA
All-Conference USA mention (2022)
Weekly recognition
1 weekly honor (2022)
Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week
Coaching lineage · 2019–2022
1 coachPlayed every college season under Seth Littrell.
