Moderately interesting stat: M football has led by 14+ points for 56% of snaps, 3rd most in the nation
Stumbled upon this interesting stat today:
The first four games have given us plenty to nitpick, but the team has still played dominantly when you zoom out. I find this particularly impressive, given our offensive style and how few drives we've had relative to other teams. Of course, caveats about strength of schedule still apply, but it's a good reminder that plenty of teams that are soaking up praise (ex: Penn State, Georgia) have also had their share of slow starts and sloppy quarters, even against mediocre to bad competition.
September 25th, 2023 at 4:38 PM ^
Moderately interesting at best. Any team running out five different head coaches in four games should be able to achieve that.
/s
September 25th, 2023 at 4:41 PM ^
The BIgTen will be fun next year. Its like we added a real life Big 10 west to the Big 10 east. No more 7 cupcakes for us.
September 25th, 2023 at 5:58 PM ^
Unfortunately we're only going to play nine of our 17 conference rivals per year.
September 26th, 2023 at 1:33 AM ^
Would've loved if we had picked up Stanford and Cal and partitioned the B1G into two 10-team divisions with all teams within a division playing each other every year. Play the conference championship game at the Rose Bowl.
September 25th, 2023 at 4:46 PM ^
I've definitely been a big nitpicker, but if you look on their first half drives:
ECU: 5 drives, 4 with points, 3 TD - 3/4/5, 80% success, 60% TD
UNLV: 3/3/4, 75%, 75%
BGSU: 2/2/5, 40%, 40% (eww)
RU: 2/2/4, 50%, 50%
Compared with 2022
CSU: 2/5/7, 71%, 29%
UH: 6/6/8, 75%, 75%
UConn: 4/5//8, 63%, 50%
UMd: 2/3/6, 50%, 33%
The big "issue" offensively this year is straight up how fast the games are going. half time scores - 29-0, 42-0, 38-0, 17-13, 23-0, 21-0, 14-6, 14-7. UNLV was as successful per drive as JJ's coming out party against Hawai'i and had half as many points and drives. Some of that is explosiveness but also...The clock rules are really having an impact.
September 25th, 2023 at 4:51 PM ^
Also - our O performed better this year against Rutgers than last year against Maryland, a game where it definitely felt like "welp we've got a heisman candidate RB" was why we beat them after a shaky start by JJ.
September 25th, 2023 at 6:02 PM ^
I think Brian or Seth covered it in the podcast, but because of the new Clock Rules, Michigan needs to play with a bit more tempo.
I understand Jim wants to take the air out of the ball and go on those 7 to 8 minute drives. However, when we do that, we only have 7 or 8 possessions a game. What does that mean? Those "flukey" touchdowns such as the one Rutgers had on Saturday have a larger impact. Michigan doesn't need to go Oregon 20112, but they need to stop letting the play clock go down to 2 everytime.
September 26th, 2023 at 7:40 AM ^
Harbaugh obviously isn't going to run the clock out if we're losing. Nothing wrong at all, in fact it's game theory optimal, with icing the game once you have a big lead.
September 25th, 2023 at 5:42 PM ^
If I was a neutral fan I’d say that Michigan has a dam good team. As a guy who eats sleeps and breathes, this time of year and team. I see the warts.
September 25th, 2023 at 5:54 PM ^
These are averages per game? Or overall for the season so far? It will be interesting to see how much the W-MSU game contributed to their number.
How does Michigan do game-by-game? Which teams get to 14+ point differential the earliest in a game? Those may or may not stay at 14+ point differential the rest of the game.
September 25th, 2023 at 6:18 PM ^
I think you might be over thinking it…😂
September 25th, 2023 at 6:20 PM ^
Three tomato cans and a Rutger say ‘Hi’.
Should have been up by two TD’s after the first quarter!
September 25th, 2023 at 8:11 PM ^
I do deeply appreciate that this is the kind of post I find mildly pessimistic and overly concerned as opposed to what the board was producing over much the 2000s. Long live the mild disappointment of high expectations era!!
September 25th, 2023 at 6:59 PM ^
Moderately interesting stat
I've never understood why so many OPs here bash their own thread.
September 25th, 2023 at 7:41 PM ^
I'm not sure it's really limited to MGoBlog. Regardless, it's a defense mechanism -- it mutes the responses. It's harder to argue with somebody when their claim was merely that the stat was "moderately" interesting.
Personally, I'll take a slice of humility over the obvious clickbait crap. Check out these 10 amazing NCAAF stats (You won't believe #4!)