We're averaging 61.6 plays per game

[OttoinGrotto]

That's... startlingly low. We outpace one team in all of college football - Army.

https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/plays-per-game

As a point of comparison, #1 Tulsa runs 30 more plays a game than we do. On a 12 game season, they'll have accumulated a full six games worth of our offense more than we have.

Does our defense first staff feel our defense is so bad that we have to play that slow? Our offense YPP is pretty middle of the pack - https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/yards-per-play. Ranked 71 at 5.3 per play.

 

[K Otto XLIV]

I don't think our O pace is the issue as much as the extremely long drives our D gives up.

 

[CuyahogaCuse]

We had one possession in the third quarter yesterday, and I believe we had two in the fourth quarter ... Never possessing the ball after UVA got the ball at its 4 with half the quarter to go.

The defense is almost requiring the offense to be perfect, because they can't get off the field.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

We had one possession in the third quarter yesterday, and I believe we had two in the fourth quarter ... Never possessing the ball after UVA got the ball at its 4 with half the quarter to go.

The defense is almost requiring the offense to be perfect, because they can't get off the field.

Right. We also started the game forcing like three straight three and outs though.