- Aug 28, 2014
- 16,541
- 26,096
Played around with the statistics just for kicks. Some thoughts:
We've run 367 plays, and our opponents have run 411. The biggest disadvantaged games were Colorado State and Tennessee. CSU ran 39 more plays than us, and UT ran 26 more than us. What do these have in common? We have short fields, so fewer plays to get to the end zone. The other games we are fairly even - we ran 8 more than MSU, and 4 fewer than LSU. We ran 10 more than Kentucky, and only 7 more than Charleston Southern.
We've had 70 non-kneeling possessions, and our opponents have had 75. Why? We've scored on special teams a few times and kneeled out the game a few times. So I'm not concerned about the comparison here. Interestingly, though, we score an average of 2.9 points per possession, while only allowing an average of 1.2 points per possession. Again, this sounds like a good stat.
Similarly, points per play - we score an average of 0.55 points per play, while the opponents score an average of 0.22 points per play.
Anything else? Yards per play? We have 6.22 yards per play, our opponents have 4.09 yards per play.
Long story short - I think our offense is doing just fine. Could they be doing better? Sure. But the slower tempo is leading to more efficient plays, possessions, and point totals.
Good work but where's the pie chart.
So obviously we aren't the only team in CFB that's running the meerkat offense and they're ahead of us in plays per game.
Getting the ball back one more possession a game would do wonders for our offensive stats since we have been productive with the ball.