Per NCAA stats.
#15 Total Offense
#18 Total Defense
Not bad.
#15 Total Offense
#18 Total Defense
Not bad.
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Advanced Stats and CU - 2016 Edition
- Thread starter Darth Snow
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When half your schedule has been on the road at Michigan and Oregon, it's crazy good. Some games on the schedule that won't be friendly to defensive stats due to their styles of play (ASU and WSU, most especially) and a couple that play a style that's not friendly to our offense (Stanford and Utah), but there is reason to believe that CU can hold up in the rankings.
It will certainly slip from here. Here's a list of teams that were top 20 in both total offense and total defense last year: Clemson, Boise St. That's it.
Dang.
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/fei for rankings, and http://www.footballoutsiders.com/fei-ratings/2016/fei-week-4 for all rankings
CU is 58th, but the FEI (as opposed to S&P) is still 43% based off projected spot. #10 strength of schedule.
CU is 58th, but the FEI (as opposed to S&P) is still 43% based off projected spot. #10 strength of schedule.
What even is Colorado Football right now?
I can't even Colorado football.
Those percentages don't seem very scientific lol.
They are statistics, but I'm just in awe any objective system can come up with that at the moment. We are a long way from a week before the season.
Also, FYI, preseason projections still account for 30% of the S&P rankings.
Yeah I just find it odd there is the same probability of going 7-5 as there is to go 9-3, same with 11-1 vs.5-7. I would have thought the probabilities would be atleast a couple percentage points different.
Also worth noting, we're going at the 4th highest pace on offense in the country.
Our DBs & LBs both have the 11th highest havoc rate in the country.
Our DBs & LBs both have the 11th highest havoc rate in the country.
that is weird. usually it's a bit off. Must just have a pretty normal bell curve based on how our opponents have looked.
Fire Lindgren. Mac is too loyal to his assistants. His offensive scheme designs, play calling and QB development all suck.
Bufffan68
Club Member
Lol. Lindgren has made me a believer.
I will say that the QB's have taken a big step forward this year and I don't think it is a coincidence that it has happened in the season that Lindgren has fewer responsibilities. Mac seems to have managed the personalities of his coaching staff extremely well.
I think a lot of it has to do with the OL. DID YOU SEE HOW MUCH TIME MONTEZ HAD?
Best game by far for a CU OL that I can remember in a long time. Completely shut down OSU.
This. I remember Tom Brady looking awful in a Bronco game last year. Fixing the OL has done wonders. Also, we have better overall scheme and play design (thanks AirRaid). We get the ball out quick often. We have some play-action and QB run plays, which keeps the defense from selling out on the all out pass rush every play.
I saw a nice screen to a RB on Saturday. That play is absolutely necessary and we didn't run it last year. Oddly, it was a huge play for us in 2014.
*UPDATE* In terms of YPG, Buffs are:
#9 Total Offense
#13 Total Defense
Only other team in the top 15 on both sides of the ball is Ohio State. OSU has played: Bowling Green (home), Tulsa (home), @Oklahoma, and Rutgers (home).
Bufffan68
Club Member
Not bad is an understatement. Where were we the year before JMFL took over? In 2014 we were #114 in total defense. He's a ****ing genius! Please stay for a long time Jim...we'll give u all the Pepsi u can drink!!!
8Jah
Well-Known Member
Pretty clear that Lingren is much better focusing on film and play calling while Chev coaches the guys up. Chev has brought alot of 'focus on details' and its the 'little mistakes that kill you' and that has been huge. It kind of like we have someone focused on planning and someone focused on execution.
I know we have Irwin back and that is HUGE, but Adams seems to be doing a lights out job.
Actually, espn has us as #6 in total offense in YPG and #24 in total defense in YPG.
#36 scoring defense, #16 scoring offense.
#3 passing efficiency defense. #8 passing efficiency offense (using NCAA's metric)
in yards per attempt, we are #8 at 9.8. Only non option offenses better than us are Toledo, Texas Tech, ND, and Indiana. Toledo is crazy good at that stat (almost 2 yards per attempt better than all non option offenses).
Yards per rush attempt is 4.3, just behind CSU at #70. CU is also giving up 4.2 attempts per rush, at #69.
Yards per pass attempt against CU is 4.5. That is #1 in the nation. Tied with OSU. Michigan is #4 at 5.2
JesusGordo
Active Member
Good point Denver. I think this is what has me believing we good. We are good on both sides of the ball. You always have teams like Oregon, TT and Houston on top of the Offensive statistics but you rarely see those same teams at the top of the defensive statistics.
Still though, with teams getting into the meat of their conference season these statistics will start to shake out and we will learn who is for real.
Still though, with teams getting into the meat of their conference season these statistics will start to shake out and we will learn who is for real.
Bufffan68
Club Member
Kinda disagree cuz I think we are for real but we won't be able to hold most PAC 12 teams to 230 yds while I suspect Toledo will continue their gaudy numbers. I suspect our O will do as well as we only play 2 good defenses in conf play but I think our D stats will look worse as time goes on.