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Message: [QUOTE="orange_in_VA, post: 1941036, member: 1356"] While this team has seemed/been marginally better than last year overall. We are actually worse in scoring points so far this year. All of the yards kind of distract people from this fact. Also, having 4 wins with 4 games left looks more promising. The reality is our team is not very good at scoring which is the ultimate statistic for having a good offense. Currently we are tied at #110 in the country with Boston College in Redzone Offense, #50 in 3rd down conversion percentage, and #81 in scoring offense. We need to turn yards into points to have any chance against elite teams like Clemson unless they totally lay an egg (Realistically I don't see that happening). Surprisingly (Hard to tell by the eyeball test) it's our defense that has been keeping us in games. Defense ranks #36 in the country for 3rd down defense and #9 in redzone defense. Pass efficiency defense is kind of middle of the pack at #62. The defense ranks pretty poorly in yards and points given up, but those are due to anomalies (Blowouts). The offense has one anomaly game (Wake Forest). Disregarding that game gets us to 29.1 points per game. This would currently have us at the #72 scoring offense in the country. They've been consistently average/below average at scoring points. In 3 games the defensive stats got "skewed". Louisville, South Florida and Notre Dame averaged 52.3 points per game on us. Notre Dame was a bad game by the defense. Louisville and South Florida score on everyone. However, in the other 5 games, the defense is only giving up on average 19.2 points per game. We may win shootouts someday, but the stats tell me not to hold my breath that it will be this week (Or this season for that matter). If we hang around in this game, it will most likely be our defense that keeps us in it. We're still quite a ways away from being a good offense. [/QUOTE]

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