2014 Final Offense Stats

Submitted by Blarvey on

I took a look at the final stats this morning and as we are all aware, this offense was statistically bad. The team had 10 total touchdown passes, the fewest since 1986.

All of this data is not exactly comparable as it is season totals which for 2009 and 2014 will not include bowl games. Otherwise it is a visual comparison of the last 11 Michigan offenses.

This team had 859 fewer yards than last year...

...and the points fell along with it, scoring 27 touchdowns, fewer even than the 28 scored in 2008:

Rushing yards were up...

...as were YPC, but YPA fell dramatically:

Of course the most damning thing for this offense was the turnovers. I don't have stats for fumbles but the TD/INT ratio tells you enough:

Data:

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ish

November 30th, 2014 at 9:34 AM ^

Very helpful charts.

The best thing we can say about the offense this year is that they didn't go backward as much. But of all the things Hoke did wrong, the failure to develop a single competent QB may have done him in more than anything.

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jdon

November 30th, 2014 at 9:39 AM ^

I could be wrong but I think that the YPC  rushing yards should be blue and passing yards red...

outside of that you did a great job.

thanks,

jdon

 

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LSAClassOf2000

November 30th, 2014 at 9:54 AM ^

This is excellent work! Thanks for taking the time to do this and post this.

If there are small victories to be gleaned from the numbers this season, one of them might be the reduction in negative plays on the ground. Last year, there were 510 yards of negative rushing (which includes sacks, of course), but it fell about 40% this year to 300 yards of negative rushing. This translated to what you see - a 16% jump in net rushing despite having close to the same amount of total positive yards (2,144 in 2013, 2,254 this season). Buried in there, I would say, is some improvements on the offensive line. 

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Der Alte

November 30th, 2014 at 9:55 AM ^

A very nice job --- thanks for this.

1986 might have seen just a few TD passes, but that 11-2, BIG Co-Champ team didn't need them. They won all three rivalry games. Jamie Morris ran behind a great offensive line (Husar, Dames, Vitale, Hammerstein, Elliott). The D featured such players as Mark Messner, Billy Harris, Andy Moeller and Garland Rivers. The only time they got outplayed was by a pass-happy Arizona State team in the 1987 Rose Bowl. Bo might have realized then that the game had somewhat passed him by (pun intended). He retired after the loss to USC in the 1990 Rose Bowl.

The quarterback for the 1986 team was also voted the team's most valuable player: a guy by the name of Jim Harbaugh.

 

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ama11

November 30th, 2014 at 10:00 AM ^

I know people hated Borges (I was done with him at the end of last year, too), and he did get worse every year from the chart above, but he had us at a respectable 8.37 and 8.15 YPA... Almost on par with RR his last year here. I think if he had been retained we would have seen DG have a good year and we go 10-2, losing only to OSU and Staee, which is still unacceptable, but I missed big Al this year...

All things considered after this season: I fully expected Nuss to improve the offense over the course of the season, but he did not have it firing on all cylinders at the end, which is unacceptable. Would rather have had Borges with DG another year to see how that panned out.

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bklein09

November 30th, 2014 at 10:47 AM ^

Maybe that post from a few weeks ago about Saban wanting to come here were true! So Saban fired Nuss and sent him to Michigan as a double agent. His mission was to submarine the offense and end the Brady Hoke era. Therefore opening the door for Saban to come here next season.
It's totally possible you guys!!! /s



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YoOoBoMoLloRoHo

November 30th, 2014 at 10:21 AM ^

The other definitive statistic is turnover rate (below). The O not only struggled for yards and points, it also gave up the ball 2X per game. DG's interception and fumble yesterday were simply par for the course. [The least discussed issue on Mgoblog in relation to impact on W-L record, IMO, is the D's utter failure to generate TOs this year. 10 is alarmingly bad.] As a point of comparison, OSU has 1 year in the last seven with 20 lost TOs and the rest in the teens; they also have 20+ gained in 5 years, 30 in one and 35 in 2009. UM turnover statistics Year. Lost. Gained. Net. 2014. 26. 10. -16 2013. 21. 26. +5 2012. 27. 18. -9 2011. 22. 29. +7 2010. 29. 19. -10 2009. 28. 16. -12 2008. 30. 20. -10

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Jevablue

November 30th, 2014 at 10:44 AM ^

This O-Line was good enough for this team to win 8-9 games this year and showed marked improvement.  Give them a coaching staff next year that figures out that there job is to exploit the other team's weaknesses and I give the O a decent chance to be very good.  And I do not fear our QB situaton nearly as much if intelligent coaching is present.  This is COLLEGE ball, not the NFL,  examples of young QBs abound. Eliminating our coaching disadvantage will improve this. There are enough solid pieces around next year's QB to work with here. Bank it.

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alum96

November 30th, 2014 at 10:48 AM ^

Announcer said this was the worst turnover margin since 2007.  For the entire conference.

Devin was the major cause of a lot of it but the defense didnt create many turnovers at all. We had 5 fumbles recovered and 5 INTs all year.  PSU had I believe 5 INT vs Gary Nova in 1 afternoon (maybe it was 4).

Lewis was the only CB to have an INT all year - with 2.   Our DL had 2.  One LB had 1.  That's it.  So our DL had as many INT as our DBs.

This conference is so bad that just reducing the turnover margin by 8 this year (1 per conf game) and we probably win 3 more games.  Not that it would have fixed all the other issues but this was a historically bad year for turnovers.

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bklein09

November 30th, 2014 at 10:50 AM ^

It's incredible how that happened on both sides of the ball. If the defense had even an average number of turnovers, maybe we have 6-8 wins. But instead both the defense and the offense put up historically bad turnover numbers. Is some of that luck? Or are we that bad? Or coaching? Can coaching really cause a horrible TO margin to that extent? Particularly on defense I feel like some of it must be luck, but what do I know.



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bacon

November 30th, 2014 at 10:53 AM ^

I'm pretty sure this is the first time since 1967 that Michigan went the whole season without being ranked in the top 25 in either poll at any point in the season. That's two years before Bo.

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kb

November 30th, 2014 at 11:50 AM ^

This should probably be a diary. The TD to turnover ratio is most telling. We are turning the ball over at an alarming rate and lack the playmakers to get the ball into the endzone. That is the main reason for our drop to a middle-of-the-pack team.

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MonkeyMan

November 30th, 2014 at 12:42 PM ^

These are great charts- and they point out a pattern that is hard to ignore:

Gardner killed us this year

lower passing yards, interceptions and fumbles (he had a few), sacks for loss

Pass blocking was actually better this year- as was run blocking

The regression of DG explains a lot of this season

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wahooverine

November 30th, 2014 at 2:01 PM ^

is it Nuss' fault for that regression?  Genuinely curious.  I thought he was supposed to be a qb guru, and coming from Sabans staff a can't miss right?  Devin's play this year was the binding constraint on the season and I find it perplexing.

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