We’re scoring a ton of points this year, but did you know….

Submitted by artds on

So I was just killing time before the game starts in about, erm, 48 hours or so, just looking over some stats from the past 2 years, and a couple of things stood out…

1. We could actually top our ‘08 point total this weekend. In ’08, we finished with just 243 points on offense. In 2010, we already have 207. If we put up 37 points on MSU, then we will have beaten our ’08 point total just halfway through the season.

2. At this point in ‘09, we had scored 170 points, compared to 207 so far this year.

3. In ’09, our offense put up a respectable point total of 354. For comparison, Lloyd’s teams actually scored that many points or FEWER in 6 different seasons, and two of those seasons had 13 games.

5. We’re on pace to score 496 points (over 12 games). Obviously that won’t happen, but just for comparison sake, again, our offense scored 354 last year. The Michigan record for points scored over 12 games is 446 (2003) most points we've scored over 12 games since the 1940s is 446 (2003).

Conclusion: this whole ‘dreadlocked-quarterback-running-the-zone-read’ thing is working.

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joeyb

October 7th, 2010 at 4:00 PM ^

You say that we obviously won't keep scoring at the pace that we have been. I have to disagree with that. If we average 12 drives per game and score on half of them, that's 42 points per game. Some games are going to be against better defenses and others are going to be against defenses that look like BGSU. Everyone expects this season to be filled with shootouts, so I think we will just keep scoring as much as possible instead of giving up in the 4th quarter when we are up by 14.

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joeyb

October 7th, 2010 at 4:33 PM ^

I think we can put up 35-49 on MSU.

We put up 28 on Iowa last year and I see no reason to think they can stop Denard considering the drive he had last year where he ran on pretty much every down. Plus, we have the game at home. That's probably worth a TD.

PSU is one of the games that I think we score less than what we need. Maybe 28 or so.

Illinois and Purdue? We should be able to score at will against them. It will be fun to watch too.

Wisconsin is the same thing with Iowa. We put up 24 last year. There's no reason to expect that we score at least 1-2 more times with homefield advantage and dilithium.

OSU is like PSU. Nevertheless, I think we can at least come damn close to that number even if we don't fully achieve it.

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UMAmaizinBlue

October 7th, 2010 at 4:16 PM ^

Glad to see the offense is outperforming the last couple of year's, but I wonder how the defense is doing compared to points and yards from previous year. I know it's not pretty, but maybe it's not as bad as we think (crosses fingers).

 

Regardless, scary good offense = fun games to watch, so we got that going for us.

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