After week seven’s slate, here’s the conference order by net yards per play, with the offensive ypp and defensive ypp, respectively, in parenthesis.
As I’ve been doing, I also show the week-to-week change in the net figure (stats via cfbstats.com.)
- Alabama: 2.54 (7.95; 5.41) [net change: DNP]
- Florida: 1.77 (7.42; 5.65) [net change: +.09]
- TAMU: 1.15 (6.71; 5.56) [net change: +.61]
- Auburn: 0.51 (5.81; 5.30) [net change: DNP]
- Georgia: 0.39 (5.42; 5.03) [net change: -.60]
- Arkansas: 0.10 (5.26; 5.16) [net change: +.28]
- Kentucky: -0.20 (4.83; 5.03) [net change: DNP]
- Ole Miss: -0.31 (6.76; 7.07) [net change: DNP]
- Mississippi State: -0.62 (4.59; 5.21) [net change: -.31]
- Missouri: -0.86 (5.37; 6.23) [net change: DNP]
- South Carolina: -1.00 (5.23; 6.23) [net change: -.61]
- LSU: -1.02 (6.17; 7.19) [net change: DNP]
- Tennessee: -1.09 (4.74; 5.83) [net change: -.16]
- Vanderbilt: -2.07 (4.74; 6.81) [net change: +1.02]
Here’s the current order for turnover margin.
- +8: Arkansas
- +5: Alabama
- +4: Auburn, Kentucky, LSU
- +1: Florida, TAMU
- 0: South Carolina
- -2: Georgia
- -3: Ole Miss, Tennessee
- -4: Missouri
- -7: Mississippi State
- -8: Vanderbilt
And, observations:
- Turnover margin been berry, berry good for Arkansas.
- Last in net ypp and last in turnover margin pretty much sums up Vandy’s 2020.
- Georgia’s decline shows the Dawgs have more than just a quarterback problem right now.
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If the season ended today the Pitt Boss should be coach of the year.
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And they got screwed against the Barn.
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Not that we needed any more reason to root for Pittman, but Arkansas plays the Gators this weekend.
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Ark is really playing well. I watched their game with Tenn – fun game to watch.
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In dreamland, What if…
Arkansas with the pit boss strolls into swampland and pulls off the shocker with a pissed off F. Franks. Ark’s D is legit and probably can defend the wheel route a little better. If Pitts doesn’t play that O and Trask don’t look quite as dynamic.
LSwho finds itself with one game to play to shock the world after a nothing burger of a season and takes this opportunity as their “sec champ” game. Their O can score points but can that defense defend air.
Ark and lsu seem like the only two teams on the turds schedule to even give them a game.
Dawgs back door into sec champ game with a complete and healthy squad ready to take on bama.
I just woke up from a dream…all I have left to cling to in 2020.
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With the absolute mess that the QB position has become over the last month, I’m not sure I want to take another Bama beating.
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I wouldn’t want to watch that beating either, but if it means the Gators don’t win the East…
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Good point … just don’t watch but take pleasure from the fact that Dopey/Sideshow/Portal Master and the Handbags aren’t there again.
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Et regarder les Dawgs se faire expulser neuf nuances de merde d’eux à nouveau? Non merci.
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A little off the subject.
Derek made a great point in an earlier post.
Georgia’s offense was percolating very well until one single play took SB out (a filthy dirty hit that should have led to a penalty and ejection of the Florida player, and Mullens should have been roasted by Danielson for the hypocrisy of it, especially after he had made such a fool of himself against MO last week. If Georgia had done that, it would have been replayed over and over again until the reviewing asshat in Birmingham called it)
It was never the same after that. With Pickens sitting in Athens and no viable back up to SB, we were finished.
Florida might have won anyway, but it was the turning point that never relented.
We missed open guys..but when we did hit them, they seem to have hams for hands. We have one functionable QB and he isn’t stellar..and after the dirty hit, he was bad…and we had (have) no backup.
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Bennnet missed 2 passes after that hit that were very makable. Then the wheels fell right the F off.
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How is our decline due to anything other than abysmal QB play?
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It depends on how much you blame the defense’s failures on the offensive woes.
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I can’t blame the offense for the inability to do one damn thing about the wheel route. Or perhaps the wheel route is every D’s kryptonite. Maybe we should run it more, understanding that would require someone who can throw it and someone who can catch it.
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The greatest defense ever on paper by crootin’ stars keeps yielding 40+ every time we play a good offense?
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When your QB keeps handing the ball over and your D is back out on the field with no rest…yeah, I blame the offense. What was our longest drive Saturday, 6 plays?
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The offense stunk generally; but that 3rd quarter Mathis drive was 12 plays.
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I never use facts to support a valid argument.
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The defense was better in the second half when it was decimated by injuries, ejections, and because they offense allegedly left them on the field.
They got torched in the first half when they were fresh.
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We have a defense built to defend offenses the way Kirby likes to play offense, not to defend offenses the way Kirby NEEDS to play offense.
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lol
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