NCAA leaders. Wow offense has changed through the years.

[Toms Wife]

I expected us to be much higher. On offense we are 55th after racking up 463 yards.
Total Offensive stats

On defense we are 102nd after giving up 497 yards. Once we get to Big Ten run-oriented offenses these numbers will improve.
Total Defense stats

 

[phoenix4nu]

I would imagine that the high offensive numbers are due to the mismatches that happen in the first games of the season. Oregon vs. Southern Utah is a perfect example.

 

[jflores]

From the Hail Varsity article, the average yards per play last year and to begin this year (for all FBS teams) is 5.8 (the Blackshirts gave up 5.6 ypp on Saturday night).

According to this tempo chart...

https://www.footballstudyhall.com/2016/11/7/13549506/college-football-tempo-pace-increasing

We're seeing in excess of 70 snaps per game. Which is on average....420YPG.

 

[Toms Wife]

From the Hail Varsity article, the average yards per play last year and to begin this year (for all FBS teams) is 5.8 (the Blackshirts gave up 5.6 ypp on Saturday night).

According to this tempo chart...

https://www.footballstudyhall.com/2016/11/7/13549506/college-football-tempo-pace-increasing

We're seeing in excess of 70 snaps per game. Which is on average....420YPG.

Then the yards per play must have been significantly down so far this year...possible I guess. Nebraska is 82nd at ypp currently according to the NCAA website. With your numbers you would expect them to be in the top half.

If you look at ESPN's defensive efficiency stat (which is mostly based on ypp) Nebraska is 97th. Interesting new stat for stat geeks.

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

12-15 game sample vs 1-2 game sample. its fairly basic statistical analysis, you can't look at 1 game to determine averages, you have 1/12 of your data available.

 

[Toms Wife]

12-15 game sample vs 1-2 game sample. its fairly basic statistical analysis, you can't look at 1 game to determine averages, you have 1/12 of your data available.

You still have 70 or so games that determine the sample this year. That's not 600+ but the sample of 70 tends to mute the few games that are huge outliers.

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

You still have 70 or so games that determine the sample this year. That's not 600+ but the sample of 70 tends to mute the few games that are huge outliers.

What? It's not a 70 game sample it's 70 1 game samples. To think that you can make an analysis by comparing how Florida St did vs Alabama to what Oregon did against Southern Utah is silly. The data JFlores presented was the average of 128 12-15 game samples not 128 1 game samples.

 

[jflores]

Tom is confusing median with average. They are often not the same. Also consider that we faced a good number more snaps than the chart presented so we are on the higher end of the scale

 

[jflores]

I generally agree with tom about the numbers getting better for us. The couple of spread teams I think are going to give us our high end numbers for the average by seasons end.