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[QUOTE="Louie and Bouie, post: 2401630, member: 793"]
As stated on numerous occasions in statistical threads I believe the only way to compare/contrast offensive and defensive efficiency across different seasons/coaches/schemes/pace/conferences is through a statistical measurement called points per possession.  I have found an advanced statistical site (highly recommended for statistical junkies) called cfbanalytics.com which does a very thorough job of sorting out advanced statistics for college football.  This particular measure takes points per possession and adjusts it to account for home field advantage and strength of schedule.  Thus, the actual points per possession of a team is modified to account for these issues and its relabeled adjusted points per possession.  The bracketed number after the points per possession number is the national ranking among FBS schools.  All seasons since Coach P was terminated are included in the following post.

As with any statistic there are flaws but the rankings under this particular statistic strongly correlate to season success in the W/L column and the highest ranked teams in these categories strongly correlate to the highest ranked teams in the nation so I submit it is a very strong indicator of team success over the course of a season.
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