Sunday Morning Stats - Week 7

Submitted by HeismanPose on

Figured I'd turn this into a regular feature.  Just a compilation of stats to show where the team is at, presented without comment.  All rankings are national (out of 120 FBS teams) unless otherwise noted.

Sagarin

Overall Rank- 37th (5th in the Big Ten)

SOS Rank - 49th (3rd in the Big Ten)

 

Offense

Scoring - 36.0 p/g (17th)

Rushing - 281.6 yds/g (7th)

Passing - 250.4 yds/g (36th)

Pass Eff - 159.83 (15th)

Total - 532.0 yds/g (3rd)

Sacks Allowed - .43/game (5th)

TFL Allowed - 3.57 (5th)

Turnovers Lost  - 12 (67th)

RedZone - 84% (50th)

3rd Down - 46.59% (28th)

4th Down - 80.0% (11th)

 

Defense

Scoring - 28.4 pts/g (82nd)

Rushing - 144.7 yds/g (57th)

Passing - 296.3 yds/g (105th)

Pass Eff - 140.95 (94th)

Total - 441.0 yds/g (105th)

Sacks - 1.43/game (85th)

TFL - 5.71/g (71st)

Turnovers Gained - 9 (83rd)

Red Zone - 88% (93rd)

3rd Down - 42.00% (86th)

4th Down - 64.71% (90th)

 

Special Teams/Other

Net Punting- 37.68 (42nd)

Net Kicking- ?

Punt Returning - 5.11 yds/ret (100th)

Kick Returning - 19.37 yds/ret (100th)

Punt Return D - 9.4 yds/ret (71st)

Kick Return D - 18.42 yds/ret (11th)

Field Goals - 25.0% (118th)

Penalties- 5.0 pen/g (16th)

Penalty Yards - 51.0 pen yds/g (54th)

TOP - 28:32 (90th)

 

Individual

Denard  - Rushing

1096 rush yds (1st); 156.6 rush yds/g (2nd)

Denard - Passing

1319 pass yds (53rd); 188.4 pass yds/g (66th); 9.2 yds/att (9th); 159.1 rating (16th)



Mouton

9.00 tackles/g (44th)

Kovacs

8.71 tackles/g (53rd)

Floyd

8.43 tackles/g (63rd)

Hagerup

43.6 avg punt (34th)

(Note: over the past three games, Hagerup has punted 11 times for an average of 48.3 yards.  That would be good for 2nd nationally).

Comments

SeattleChris

October 17th, 2010 at 1:56 PM ^

The O spotted the opposition points early via T/O but when the D could've stepped up and tackled ballcarriers on key third downs to get us the ball back, they preferred to not tackle. Therefore in my view they are equal culprits. BTW - what is the deal with all the friggin facemasking?

J.Swift

October 17th, 2010 at 12:58 PM ^

We squeaked by Indiana by 7 points and lost to Michigan State and Iowa by 17 and 10 respecitvely.  In conference play, Indiana has allowed 17.5 points more than it has scored.  State & Iowa on average have scored 15.7 & 15.5 points more than they have allowed, but of course all three have inflated points scored averages, thanks to having played us. 

So if we look at our remaining games by comparing average points scored versus average points allowed, one might predict the following:

In Conference: results through 10/16/2010  Remaining

          Ave Pts    Scored Yielded      Diff  W/L   Prediction

U of M                  29            35.7     -  6.7

Penn St.               8.0          28.5      -20.5           W

Illinois                17.3          21.0      - 3.7            toss up

Purdue               24,0          17.0      +7.0            L

Wisconsin         31.7          25.0      +6.7            L

Ohio State         26.7          18.0      +8.7            L





 

Based on the above alone, we go 2-3 and finish conference play at 3-5.  If so, we've barely improved on 2008 or 2009.   But since we have allowed on average 35.7 points in

3 conference games, it is difficult to be optimistic about the rest of the schedule.  Still, if a miracle occurs and our defense begins actually to play defense--imagine the lift that would give to our offense.  Not to mention well, us fans.

SeattleChris

October 17th, 2010 at 1:52 PM ^

Both Heismanpose and Enjoy Live - well done. Gives me some math to sink my teeth into to justify my John L. Smith style face-slapping reaction whenever I watch Denard pat the ball or Tate circle backward in an S curve trying to avoid the rush. I wonder how much of the Int-itis is due to schemes shutting down primary and secondary reads vs. Denard and/or Tate losing patience with their progressions and hucking it hoping for Hemingway or someone else to make a play when they feel the rush.