3 key stats from the 2016 Football season
Michigan Team Rushing, last 3 seasons-
| Year | Att. | Yards | TDs | YPG | Record |
| 2014 | 425 | 1,954 | 17 | 162.8 | 5-7 |
| 2015 | 491 | 2,057 | 27 | 158.2 | 10-3 |
| 2016 | 574 | 2,768 | 41 | 212.9 | 10-3 |
Michigan Team Turnover Margin, last 3 seasons
| Season | Margin |
| 2014 | -16 |
| 2015 | -4 |
| 2016 | +7 |
7 interceptions as a team this year was the fewest Michigan has thrown since 2002.
January 4th, 2017 at 8:55 PM ^
January 4th, 2017 at 9:03 PM ^
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January 4th, 2017 at 9:44 PM ^
It's beginning to look like basketball 2016/17 will resemble football 2014. Just falling off the table.
January 4th, 2017 at 9:45 PM ^
I assume at least 35 of those were Khalid's
January 4th, 2017 at 9:49 PM ^
January 4th, 2017 at 10:54 PM ^
Poor snowflake...
January 4th, 2017 at 10:42 PM ^
"7 interceptions as a team this year was the fewest Michigan has thrown since 2002."
A lot of that is attributed to the fact that his accuracy on quite a few passes were so bad that nobody had a chance to catch it. Receiver or defense.
January 5th, 2017 at 7:54 AM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 9:05 AM ^
Don't know too much about Peters but I've seen enough of Speight.
January 4th, 2017 at 11:20 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 12:44 AM ^
well, it hasn't been that long. Then again, improving from 3-9 to 5-7 to 7-6 isn't really anything to get all that excited about.
January 4th, 2017 at 11:21 PM ^
10-3 , only stat that matters
January 5th, 2017 at 8:36 AM ^
Yes, but for anyone nerdy enough to want to consider more than one number from the past season, the turnover margin numbers help to explain a lot of the final record.
January 5th, 2017 at 9:41 AM ^
We all know the record and most of us can explain qualitatively why this happened. WD puts an eye-opening (at least IMO) statistic-based OP and you come back with this?? Do better.
Anyway, I'll add that at Stanford:
2010 - 524 rushing attempts, 2801 yards, 213.8 Y/G, 34 TDs, record 12-1
2009 - 527 attempts, 2852 yards, 218.2 Y/G, 39 TDs (28 for Gerhart alone!), record 8-5
I'm not adding more because I had to manually calculate totals and I'm lazy. But, from the data we have, I think it's fair to say that Harbaugh ideally would like to pass a bit more, but I think he was protecting Speight a bit. I also thought that maybe all the blowouts this year had something to do with it (i.e. run the ball more during blowouts), but 2010 Stanford for example had only 2 wins by less than 10 points, along with a loss to Oregon. Next year, unless we land Harris, I would expect the team rushing attempts total to come down closer to 500, unless the reality is that this year's Michigan team had substantially more plays overall than 2010 or 2009 Stanford, but I digress.
January 5th, 2017 at 6:01 AM ^
As our defense gets younger, I would expect a decreased TO margin given the lesser experience of the 2017 CBs, safeties and D-linemen. On the other hand, if Speight win the qb battle, he may throw less INTs and fumble less with experience. If Peters or McCaffrey win the QB battle, I would fully expect us to have a worst TO margin than 2016 given our youth.
January 5th, 2017 at 10:18 PM ^
January 6th, 2017 at 9:57 AM ^