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Buffs Defense May Become The Unsung Hero
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Averages for what?
The CU AD profile on Mr. Green. Great numbers and history. He's been coming on and he should take control.https://cubuffs.com/sports/football/roster/bj-green-ii/17406
Sacks, TFL, and turnovers is good to see
Bump
FLounda
Think Positive and life will be Positive.
We torched Arizona and held them to 7!
GRM
I'm a ****ty troll
Saturday was just awesome D. So many players contributing and our depth shining through. The team pursuit so lacking v. KSU returned in droves against Zona. Read the stat sheet on how few solo tackles there were. We held the B12 all-conference WR to 38 yards. Overall, the team played great, very complimentary football all the way around.
Seven games in. I'm expecting some nice positive movement after that beat down of a decimated and spiritually demolished Zona squad.
Links: NCAA. BCF. Team Rankings.
PPG: 19th - bump up (19 ppg). 2023 # FYI: 32.8 ppg.
PPP: 33d - big jump up
PPD: 32 - big jump up.
YPG: 73d - big improved
YPP: 5.41 - improved
Yards Per Rush (new): 3.96, 60th or so. (per game, 79th)
Efficiency Stuff:
Overall Defense (FEI): 38th - huge bump - FYI, FEI likes our D more than our 46th ranked O.
Overall Defense (SP+): 56th - huge bump - aside: Even our special teams is in the top 100 now!
Team Passing Defensive Efficiency: 82 - small bump
Sacks:13th - 3 per game. Continues to rocket up.
TFL: 19th (7 per game). Holding steady.
Red Zone D: 8th - holding steady.
Turnovers Gained: 20th - bump up!
3d Down D: 38th - bump up
Truly dominant performance edging this defense towards being accurately described as better than mediocre. top 20 in points per game given up by the defense is a huge jump and damn impressive. Granted, Arizona was a shell of themselves with a 60th ranked ish O, but you have to credit the D for doing the damn thing.
Big tests coming up against Cincinnati (41st ranked offense), TT (26th), Kansas (27th), and Okie lite (36th). Utah, well, when we get pushed around by that offense y'all will have to admit our defense is not even mediocre. KSU is 16th in O and they mostly had their way with us. UCF is 43d and piled up yards too.
It's just a good news kind of day!
The worst kind of day!
This defense is now sung.
Starting to have a pretty complete team.
All the way up to 12th! The defensive staff
took me a while to find CU in that first chart.
Starting to have a pretty complete team.
All the way up to 12th! The defensive staff
and I'd note the close proximity of VT and CU as one more example of the 'hokiehead effect'.
Anybody find Cincinnati on there?
Starting to have a pretty complete team.
All the way up to 12th! The defensive staff
Just to the left of CU
Thanks. I knew they'd be somewhere close to CU but couldn't get my eyes on it
MarkW
Well-Known Member
Wish we knew when Hayes was coming back
FLounda
Think Positive and life will be Positive.
The CFP
GRM
I'm a ****ty troll
How Deion Sanders and Colorado exceeded expectations and starting to heat up
The Colorado Buffaloes' defense is going through a crucial evolution, and this progression is no small matter. Entering the 2024 season, most analysts viewed Co
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I guess Prime missed the Positive Coaching Alliance meetings at the coaching convention.
8 games in. I'm thinking we see a lot of drops because Cinci's run game tore us up some. Their OC did good work scheming guys open against our man coverage on their TD drives (or we just, umm, forgot how to substitute).
Links: NCAA. BCF. Team Rankings.
PPG: 26th - drop (19.7 4 ppg). 2023 # FYI: 32.8 ppg.
PPP: 37th - drops a bit.
PPD: 32 - no change.
YPG: 65th - small improvement
YPP: 5.44 - worse
Yards Per Rush (new): 4.2, 59th or so. (per game, 77th) - no big change here.
Efficiency Stuff:
Overall Defense (FEI): 38th - no change.
Overall Defense (SP+): 53d - small improvement.
Team Passing Defensive Efficiency: 77 - small bump
Sacks: 23 - decent drop.
TFL: 30th (6.6 per game). a drop
Red Zone D: 13th - small drop
Turnovers Gained: 36th - big drop
3d Down D: 33d - small improvement
Overall mixed results. Didn't get the turnovers or havoc plays this week but were good enough that our efficiency numbers didn't really get worse and actually improved a bit outside of yards per rush and play. Doing well on 3d down when we had them in passing situations was huge.
The defense definitely didn't perform against the pass the way I expected them too in their TD drives. At the same time, their QB was much more accurate on those drives than I was led to believe. At the same time, there were some wtf throws that he had in the 2nd and 3rd quarters.
All in all though, it was a decent effort but not as strong as I expected. I was really disappointed with the late TD drive, seemed very K State-ish.