Stat comparison with last year

[DMoney]

Couple caveats here. There are better teams in the second half of the schedule, so some of these stats may change considerably. Second, when comparing 2020 to 2019, I measured the 2020 stats by where they would rank last year. This year's rankings don't mean much given the staggered conference schedules.

Scoring Offense

2019- 22.6 (99th)
2020- 32.8 (26th)

Yards per play

2019- 5.1 (97th)
2020- 5.6 (58th)

Yards per pass

2019- 7.2 (73rd)
2020- 7.5 (58th)

Yards per rush

2019- 3.5 (119th)
2020- 4.3 (58th)

Third down percentage

2019- 25.97% (130th out of 130)
2020- 43.96% (25th)

Sack percentage allowed

2019- 11.06% (122nd)
2020- 8.06% (102nd)

Rush play percentage

2019- 44.95% (112th)
2020- 52.58% (62nd)

Field Goal percentage

2019- 63.16% (104th)
2020- 90.91% (6th)

Red Zone Scoring Percentage

2019- 73.68% (112th)
2020- 90.48% (19th)

Scoring Defense

2019- 21.9 (26th)
2020- 22.2 (28th)

Yards per play against

2019- 4.6 (10th)
2020- 5.1 (31st)

Yards per pass against

2019- 6.9 (37th)
2020- 6.2 (7th)

Yards per rush against

2019- 3.2 (10th)
2020- 4.2 (56th)

Third down percentage defense

2019- 38.50% (53rd)
2020- 33.33% (21st)

Sack percentage (defense)

2019- 11.03% (2nd)
2020- 6.1% (70th)

Takeaways per game

2019- 1.6 (40th)
2020- 1.5 (44th)

Quick observations. Big improvements in scoring offense (+73) and third-down percentage (+105). Also much better in the red zone (+93) and FGs (+98). Our pass protection is much improved but still bad.

Our pass rush (-68) and rush defense (-46) are way down. Shaq and Rousseau are the big personnel losses there. Our pass defense (+30) and third down defense (+32) are trending up, likely due to a more experienced secondary. Our scoring defense is stable so far but will be tested in the weeks to come.

 

[ben]

great insight, @DMoney

 

[Zombie-Cane]

Fake News, we have made no improvements and have gone backwards............according to some on here.

 

[Mnhurricane]

Good matchup of stats there and definitely shows an improved offense mostly by scheme not necessarily talent (outside of king).

Our sack % would be much lower if king would throw it away instead of run out of bounds behind the line or throw it after he’s already down. Been the cause of roughly half of the total sacks and yes I get he evades some sacks as well

 

[ajone228]

We play better offensive teams and worse defensive teams. Will be interesting how these stats look come seasons end.

 

[Dwinstitles]

Fake News, we have made no improvements and have gone backwards............according to some on here.

We about to find out soon hope you number guys are right. Not cheering for losses to be right I hope they obliterate the schedule and not look sloppy against this scrub *** conference

 

[Dwinstitles]

TBH not going by numbers but our defense took a step back (which I always thought before the season) and our offense took a slight step forward. Judging this off optics.

 

[bacane]

Sure appreciate the FG %. That's huge.

 

[Telituesday]

We played Bethune central Michigan and fiu last year and played none of those games this year so if anything it’s skewed the other way. I’m sure the 2020 numbers would look better if you threw a Bethune game in there

 

[ball915]

Lashlee is a major upgrade over Enos

 

[hoops156]

We about to find out soon hope you number guys are right. Not cheering for losses to be right I hope they obliterate the schedule and not look sloppy against this scrub *** conference

if you want to be good quickly, you need manny to succeed. we will never go out and hire an Urban Meyer so you have to hope this guy can win as many as he can to secure a strong class and continue building upon that. the only time in the last 15 years where we actually built off a good season was the first two richt years where we went 9-4, 10-3. we needed another 10 win year after that to keep building, but flopped.

 

[Coach Macho]

We added Roche and Phillips and our sack % has gone down.
****.

 

[AllAboutTheU]

We added Roche and Phillips and our sack % has gone down.
****.

Seems that the sentiment about not missing Rousseau was overstated. Would be great to have him right now.

 

[AtlAtty]

TBH not going by numbers but our defense took a step back (which I always thought before the season) and our offense took a slight step forward. Judging this off optics.

Actually, a more fair assessment judung by the numbers ONLY, is that the defense tok a slight step back and the offense took a significant step forward. The change in stats is much more dramatic for the offense than the defense. Now you can argue something different if you choose from your observations, but not from the numbers. I maybe nitpicking, but these are reasonable nits to pick.

 

[305407cane]

The stats tell the story:
Better kicker
More experienced oline. Still not good
We miss shaq pink and Greg big time. Mainly run defense and amount of sacks and sack percentage.
secondary is all back and more experienced. Add in couch coming on.
better quarterback and OC

 

[AtlAtty]

We added Roche and Phillips and our sack % has gone down.
****.

I think we underestimate how impactful Shaq and Pink were even in rushing the passer.

 

[305407cane]

Seems that the sentiment about not missing Rousseau was overstated. Would be great to have him right now.

Rousseau is far and away better than those two guys. Way better. He’s a freak and a handful down there. Roche and phillips are good to great. Greg was elite and getting better and better

 

[rsa coral gables]

the defense stats that have worsen are due to scheme and passive playcalling more than anything else.

 

[Mikep]

TBH not going by numbers but our defense took a step back (which I always thought before the season) and our offense took a slight step forward. Judging this off optics.

I think we need a bigger sample size still. If the trend keeps up its definitely good then.

 

[305407cane]

the defense stats that have worsen are due to scheme and passive playcalling more than anything else.

They just don’t trust our corners to man up it seems. I feel like Ivey is at his best when he is able to put a hand on a guy. Unless it’s a serious deep threat and we’re worried he will get burned(unc)