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[QUOTE="Archbold44, post: 5537877, member: 10528"]
Our [B]first quarters [/B]this year:

Tennessee 0-17
UConn 0-0
Colgate 14-3
Clemson 10-7
Duke 3-10
SMU 0-3
Pitt 7-7
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20 points in 1st quarter against FBS opponents-- 3.3 per game.  1/2 of that was Clemson.

[B]Second quarters:[/B]

Outscored 80-37 against FBS.

[B]Third quarters:[/B]

Outscored 20-16... although Colgate also outscored us 14-7.

Defense seems to tighten up after halftime.  Also seems like every game we get the ball first, so that is more possessions for our opponents.  Interesting.

[B]Fourth quarters:[/B]

Outscoring FBS opponents 47-41.  Some of this is Tennessee, Duke, and SMU (and perhaps even Pitt and even UConn)... taking the foot of the gas up by comfortable margins.  UConn thought they had a comfortable margin.  Pitt got pretty close to that point also.

[B]Other Analysis:[/B]

We have outscored our opponent in only 6 of 25 quarters (including the OT against UConn as a quarter) against FBS opponents (and 3 of 4 against Colgate). We could have tied Tennessee with 2 XPs in 2 quarters, otherwise we have been tied in 4 quarters. Still, that is 19 quarters  (76%) where we are outscored or tied.

Even with Angeli, we failed to outscore our opponent in the first 7 quarters.  We then went on a streak of outscoring UConn/Clemson 5 straight quarters (Q4, UConn; OT, UConn; Q1, Clemson; Q2, Clemson; and Q3, Clemson).  One each of Q1/Q2/Q3/Q4/OT.  Since then, we have only outscored our opponents in 1 of 13 quarters, with that being garbage time Q4 against SMU.  Even with the PT return from Pitt, we were still outscored in that 2nd quarter 3-0.  We are not just losing games, we are losing the majority of quarters. Other than Clemson, we start slow and then get worse in Q2.
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