SU 19th in yardage margin per game

[Millhouse]

Tops in Big East, behind FSU and Clemson in the ACC

It doesn't explain everything but when you look at all the teams, it's a pretty good measure

Rank Name Yardage Margin
1 Florida State 217
2 Alabama 193.1
3 Oregon 168.4
4 Texas A&M 163
5 Utah State 147
6 Fresno State 139
7 Notre Dame 134.5
8 BYU 134.3
9 Texas Tech 128.5
10 Oklahoma 126.8
11 Oklahoma State 125.3
12 Clemson 116.2
13 Arizona State 113.7
14 Georgia 109.8
15 Tulsa 109.3
16 San Jose State 101.5
17 Northern Illinois 100.2
18 Nebraska 100.2
19 Syracuse 98.9
20 North Carolina 96
21 Arkansas State 95.3
22 Michigan State 84.9
23 Louisville 78.5
24 Oregon State 77.5
25 Marshall 77.5
26 Boise State 75.7
27 Pittsburgh 74.6
28 Nevada 72.3
29 Wisconsin 70.7
30 Baylor 70

 

[SmilinBob]

I'd like to see an SOS...a true SOS put into this equation along with what quality defenses you played. Oregon and FSU played horrible OOC schedules and that always skews the numbers.


Plus just think we played only 5 games out of 13 at the Dome I mean seriously, nobody does that in college football. Thanks for posting this Millhouse.

 

[Millhouse]

in just conference games we were 15th. 11th among BCS schools (inc. ND)

Rank Name Yardage Margin
1 Utah State 189.6
2 Florida State 188.1
3 Alabama 169
4 San Jose State 166.2
5 Oregon 160.3
6 Texas A&M 159.4
7 Notre Dame 135.5
8 Clemson 110.7
9 BYU 107.4
10 Arizona State 103.3
11 Georgia 101.6
12 Oklahoma 99.8
13 Oklahoma State 95.5
14 Colorado State 94
15 Syracuse 93.4
16 Ohio 92.8
17 Northern Illinois 92.6
18 Tulsa 85.1
19 Western Michigan 82.6
20 Penn State 80.4
21 Fresno State 72.5
22 Georgia Tech 70.9
23 Nebraska 70.5
24 Wisconsin 69.1
25 San Diego State 68.6
26 Oregon State 68.5
27 Baylor 67.1
28 Michigan 66.4
29 Texas Tech 66.4
30 South Carolina 66.3

 

[SmilinBob]

Good stuff Millhouse...I love reading stats like this, especially when it's SU doing well!

 

[GoSU96]

The biggest single issue was still points lagging the yardage.

Couple of reasons:

1. Continuing issues in the close redzone, which I think is tied to not having a go to top notch athlete at WR or RB. You can move the ball through execution, but when the field gets compressed not having a great player makes it harder. Also the OL is on the small side and they could never get a lot of push outside of the tank package at the goal line.

2. Not many short fields. Defense didn't generate all that many TO's, and they didn't start on the plus side of the field all that often.

 

[Millhouse]

The biggest single issue was still points lagging the yardage.

Couple of reasons:

1. Continuing issues in the close redzone, which I think is tied to not having a go to top notch athlete at WR or RB. You can move the ball through execution, but when the field gets compressed not having a great player makes it harder. Also the OL is on the small side and they could never get a lot of push outside of the tank package at the goal line.

2. Not many short fields. Defense didn't generate all that many TO's, and they didn't start on the plus side of the field all that often.

i chalk a lot of it up to the line working their way up to what they became. some of it goes to hands on receivers. seemed like they had a lot of their drops in the red zone

SB was a big one, a bunch of short yardage problems that i don't think exist now. a lot of the other big mismatches in yards and points came in the games where they threw more.

it is pretty amazing that we were only a little above avg in ppg. but i think that's flukey.

over time, yards and points would converge. in cfb though, there's too much turnover and too few games to prove that.

i'm not too worried about it.

 

[GoSU96]

i chalk a lot of it up to the line working their way up to what they became. some of it goes to hands on receivers. seemed like they had a lot of their drops in the red zone

SB was a big one, a bunch of short yardage problems that i don't think exist now. a lot of the other big mismatches in yards and points came in the games where they threw more.

it is pretty amazing that we were only a little above avg in ppg. but i think that's flukey.

over time, yards and points would converge. in cfb though, there's too much turnover and too few games to prove that.

i'm not too worried about it.

Points and the pass defense are the only lingering issues from when Marrone took over. The run game finally took off and that's what was the huge issue last year.

 

[CusefanATL]

Tops in Big East, behind FSU and Clemson in the ACC

It doesn't explain everything but when you look at all the teams, it's a pretty good measure

Rank Name Yardage Margin
1 Florida State 217
2 Alabama 193.1
3 Oregon 168.4
4 Texas A&M 163
5 Utah State 147
6 Fresno State 139
7 Notre Dame 134.5
8 BYU 134.3
9 Texas Tech 128.5
10 Oklahoma 126.8
11 Oklahoma State 125.3
12 Clemson 116.2
13 Arizona State 113.7
14 Georgia 109.8
15 Tulsa 109.3
16 San Jose State 101.5
17 Northern Illinois 100.2
18 Nebraska 100.2
19 Syracuse 98.9
20 North Carolina 96
21 Arkansas State 95.3
22 Michigan State 84.9
23 Louisville 78.5
24 Oregon State 77.5
25 Marshall 77.5
26 Boise State 75.7
27 Pittsburgh 74.6
28 Nevada 72.3
29 Wisconsin 70.7
30 Baylor 70

fla st's is simply unfair. i think they had 2 games that were +500 yards due to level of competition.