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The Offenses We Played this Year

AtlAtty said:
This post will make people unhappy. They assume that teams score against Miami SOLELY because pour defense sucks. The reality these stats provide is that our defense is not good, but we have also played a lot of very good offenses, and amazingly held some of them below their season scoring averages; notably UVA and Pitt
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Again, yet another post that brings facts instead more rumors
 
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JimmyJohnsonsHair said:
This is a bit of a misconception. 30 PPG would rank your defense 94th in the country.
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Actually he was dead on if the 30 ppg is the mean.

Throw out the non-p5 games.
Louisville gives up an average of 29.9 ppg vs P5 opponents.
They rank 61st out of 122 teams.

That being said, Miami's ppg vs P5 will wind up around 33/34 ppg,
Ranking in the upper 70's nationally.
No bueno.
 
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NJshoreCane said:
Actually he was dead on if the 30 ppg is the mean.

Throw out the non-p5 games.
Louisville gives up an average of 29.9 ppg vs P5 opponents.
They rank 61st out of 122 teams.

That being said, Miami's ppg vs P5 will wind up around 33/34 ppg,
Ranking in the upper 70's nationally.
No bueno.
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Right now No D Mannys defense gives up 34.2 points a games against fbs teams and ranks 109th nationally

Should improve some next 3 weeks. Said should not will.
 
AtlAtty said:
This post will make people unhappy. They assume that teams score against Miami SOLELY because pour defense sucks. The reality these stats provide is that our defense is not good, but we have also played a lot of very good offenses, and amazingly held some of them below their season scoring averages; notably UVA and Pitt
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good offenses expose bad defense : and we are bad in multiple ways
 
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L A M P said:
My biggest criticism of Diaz's D has improved lately... We are finally blitzing with a purpose.. Using guys who actually have situational awareness & the football acumen/ability to impact the play.
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Still blitz too much and are often misaligned leading to huge runs.
 
jackedaround said:
UVA #1 (Tied #11 scoring offense)
Pitt #2 (#1 scoring offense)
UNC #9 (Tied #11 scoring offense)
Bama #13 (#4 scoring offense)
App State #17 (#17 scoring offense)
Michigan State #30 (Tied #26 scoring offense)
NC State #58 (#46 scoring offense)
GA Tech #62 (#66 scoring offense)

Some of this surprised me. And the remaining in total offense:

FSPoo #86 (70th)
VTech #110 (113th)
Duke #31 (90th)
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Wow @ the difference in Duke's total offense vs. scoring offense. Moving the ball without points to show for it.

Opposite is true for FSU...suggests scoring on big plays and short fields.
 
AtlAtty said:
We held UVA and Pitt below their season averages. Doesn’t mean we are good.
Personally I think the bigger takeaway is that there is very little defense played in college football anywhere. Most of the best athletes are on offense and the rules dramatically favor the offense
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Bingo
 
Don't fall for the fallacy that is the ACC. Crappy teams move the ball on crappy teams, especially in this era of college football where defenses are at a disadvantage the second the ball is snapped.

And these offensive rankings are no excuse for terrible tackling and an obsession with leaving huge portions of the field undefended.

We are winning games because good QB play makes everything easier, blocking on up to catching, and even defense. Coaches get credit for that.

We are also winning some games because the law of averages for an average conference is that "better" teams ain't that much better. At least one of them will lose every weekend because the margins are that thin-- Freshman kicker bangs one off the uprights, we lose, but their Junior WR drops 3 passes and we beat NC State. **** we dominated GT early, but fumbled 3 times, including one for a TD.
 
jackedaround said:
UVA #1 (Tied #11 scoring offense)
Pitt #2 (#1 scoring offense)
UNC #9 (Tied #11 scoring offense)
Bama #13 (#4 scoring offense)
App State #17 (#17 scoring offense)
Michigan State #30 (Tied #26 scoring offense)
NC State #58 (#46 scoring offense)
GA Tech #62 (#66 scoring offense)

Some of this surprised me. And the remaining in total offense:

FSPoo #86 (70th)
VTech #110 (113th)
Duke #31 (90th)
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Big surprise every team that’s played Mannys defense finds itself high on the list of scoring offenses… jk but it turns out teams who don’t tack get scored on.
 
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College football has made playing DB really hard. The ticker to success on D, even more than ever, is a beastly DL.

If I was recruiting, my priority list:

1. DL
2. QB
3. DBs
 
We should have an offense better than all them. ACC reminds me of years past big 12.
 
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