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These are the defensive rankings for the Miami Hurricanes defense, being compared to last year.
Green means improvement, while red obviously means the opposite. Keep in mind, that these are not based on STATS. These rankings are based off a compilation of numbers, that includes the "rating" of every single play of the season (minus clock killers/garbage time). Plays against offensively efficient teams are weighted more than others. So these rankings DO NOT reflect the same rankings that can be found when researching stats.

Defensive FEI 44 spots
2016: 13
2015: 57

Defensive Efficiency 43 spots
2016: 27
2015: 70

Defensive TD Allowed Rating 39 spots
2016: 19
2015: 58

Forced Turnovers Rating 67 spots
2016: 92
2015: 25

For FEI ratings, the defense made huge movement in every category...unfortunately, the biggest change was actually a drop of 67 spots in turnover rating. This is mainly due to catching only 8 interceptions this year, as opposed to catching 15 (nearly double) last year. We only improved by an average of 14 spots for every category in the FEI rankings (42 spots if you don't count turnover rankings, but turnovers make a huge difference).

Overall Defensive S&P 41 spots
2016: 13
2015: 54

Rushing Defense 91 spots
2016: 24
2015: 115

Passing Defense 26 spots
2016: 7
2015: 33

Defense on "Standard Downs" 78 spots
2016: 11
2015: 89

Defense on "Expected Pass Downs" 5 spots
2016: 16
2015: 21

Defensive Success Rate 52 spots
2016: 17
2015: 69

Havoc Rate 54 spots
2016: 6
2015: 60

For the most part, there was a huge improvement in every single category. No complaints here, as we improved by an average of 50 spots in the S&P defensive rankings. The biggest improvement was our rushing defense, which went from among the FBS worse, to Top 25 material. We also jumped from below average, to elite on standard down defense. Our defense on passing downs went from above average to elite.


As a bonus, I also checked out the Defensive Line numbers posted on Footballoutsiders.com

Overall Defensive Line Overall Rating 93 spots!
2016: 9
2015: 102

Standard Down Rating 122 spots !!!!!!!
2016: 5
2015: 127

Ability to stop the run on passing downs, 48 spots
2016: 89
2015: 41

Clutch Run Defense (Ratings dependent on how good we are at preventing a first down or touchdown with the opponent needing to run for 2 or less yards) 84 spots.
2016: 38
2015: 122

Stuff Rate (Ratings for runs stopped at or before Line of Scrimmage) 125 Spots!!!!!?!!
2016: 2
2015: 127

Sacks on Standard Downs 22 spots
2016: 48
2015: 70

Sacks on Passing Downs 57 spots
2016: 31
2015: 88

Thank you, Coach Kuligowski. Your coaching skills in year 1 allowed the defensive line rankings to have the biggest average improvement, moving up an average of 65 spots...and that includes doing 48 spots worse at run defense on passing downs. In terms of that big negative, I could not find a reason for it by scanning through the offensive efficiency of teams that we have played, as most of our opponents were rated in the Top 50 for Offensive Efficiency (with the exception of Duke[102], NCST[64] and FAU[79]). However, it is amazing how we went from FBS worse in Stuff Rate, to 2nd in the nation...Along with our D-Line being ranked among the elite (5th) as opposed to 122nd last year in standard downs. This is a combination of a change in scheme (from a base/fill front, to an attacking front), and simply having THE best D-Line coach in the nation.
 

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That was often done with five true freshmen playing. Will miss Elder. Jenkins also came on as well. The front seven should only get better.
 
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I don't think we will see as many INT until we have more playmakers in the secondary. When we blitz they are left on am island so I'm happy with a PBU. Can't really gamble when you don't have safety help.
 
Though the records were nearly the same ,this years team was so much better than last years.

Last year we were literally a few plays from being a 5 win team. This year we were a few plays from being a 10 win team.
 
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Novacane32000 said:
Though the records were nearly the same ,this years team was so much better than last years.

Last year we were literally a few plays from being a 5 win team. This year we were a few plays from being a 10 win team.
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Same thing on last year team. Had golden not f_cked up the fsu and Cincinnati game that's a 10 win season or if yearby didn't throw that pass in the blizzard another win. Regardless this team is much better than the 2015 team and it's not even close
 
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The low number of turnovers was mainly just because the lack of playmakers in our DB unit, I think those numbers will start to rise as players like Bandy, Dallas, and Carter arrive along with Malek and JJ taking over more snaps. We gotta keep the hard hitting down hill presence and just add the playmaking ability.
 
Lutzboy247 said:
The low number of turnovers was mainly just because the lack of playmakers in our DB unit, I think those numbers will start to rise as players like Bandy, Dallas, and Carter arrive along with Malek and JJ taking over more snaps. We gotta keep the hard hitting down hill presence and just add the playmaking ability.
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Jamal Carter probably dropped 10 INTs last year.
 
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The defensive turnaround is astounding. We held something like 11 of 13 teams under their season averages for yards and points. The last month of the season and the bowl game make me confident this defense can lead us to the ACCCG.
 
brock said:
Novacane32000 said:
Though the records were nearly the same ,this years team was so much better than last years.

Last year we were literally a few plays from being a 5 win team. This year we were a few plays from being a 10 win team.
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Same thing on last year team. Had golden not f_cked up the fsu and Cincinnati game that's a 10 win season or if yearby didn't throw that pass in the blizzard another win. Regardless this team is much better than the 2015 team and it's not even close
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In 2015 ,Cinn game really wasnt close. We lost by 11 and were out gained in yards. We lost to FSU by only 5 but they had 100+ yds more than we did. The Wash game was close (lost by 6) but again we were out gained in yds. We lost vs Clem and UNC by a combined score of 117-21.

So we had 2 loses by 1 score another by 2 scores and then were completely blown out twice.

Our wins in 2015 were far from impressive. Beat Neb by a FG in OT, beat VT by only 10 despite winning the turnover battle 4-0. It took a miracle to beat Duke. Beat a horrible Virginia team by just 6 and beat Pitt by 5. That's 5 unimpressive wins.

In 2016 all our wins were by double digits, not a single close call.
 
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