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As always, these are only numbers from FBS vs FBS competition.
Offense:
Yards per play: 46th (5.85 YPP)
Yards per game: 55th (394.1 YPG)
Points per game: 31st (31.4 PPG)
Passing yards per game: 43rd (248.5 YPG)
Passing completion percentage: 5th (71.0%)
Passing yards per attempt: 35th (8.1 YPA)
Passer rating: 29th (150.69)
Passing TDs: 52nd (14 TDs)
Interceptions: 106th (9 INTs)
Rushing yards per game: 69th (145.63 YPG)
Rushing yards per attempt: 83rd (3.96 YPA)
Rushing TDs: 30th (17)
Sacks given up per game: 6th (0.75 per game)
First Downs per game: 55th (20.9 per game)
3rd down conversion %: 31st (44.34%)
4th down conversion %: 37th (62.5%, 10 for 16 on the season)
TFLs allowed per game: 6th (3.38 per game)
Red Zone TD %: 15th (72% TD rate, 23 TDs in 32 chances)
Red Zone Scoring %: 27th (29 scores in 32 chances)
Field goal %: 14th (10 for 11)
PAT %: 1st (36 for 36)
10+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 91st (103)
20+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 96th (26)
30+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 65th (11) Season High 4 against Syracuse
40+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 74th (7)
50+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 80th (3)
60+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 60th (2)
70+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 93rd (0)
Defense:
Yards per play allowed: 8th (4.54 YPP)
Yards per game allowed: 11th (296.9 YPG)
Points per game allowed: 11th (16.5 PPG)
Passing yards per game allowed: 47th (209 YPG)
Passing completion percentage allowed: 25th (57.8%)
Passing yards per attempt: 12th (6.1 YPA)
Passer rating allowed: 16th (115.07)
Rushing yards per game allowed: 6th (87.88 YPG)
Rushing yards per attempt allowed: 8th (2.83 YPA)
Sacks per game: 13th (2.88 sacks per game)
3rd down % allowed: 11th (32.14% allowed)
4th down % allowed: 41st (47%, opponents 8/17 on 4th down)
Red Zone td % allowed: 82nd (63.16% allowed -- 12 TDs in 19 chances)
Red Zone Scoring % allowed: 68th (84% allowed -- 16 scores in 19 chances)
Punting: 40th (44.58 Yard average)
10+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 15th (89)
20+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 22nd (27)
30+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 9th (9)
40+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 8th (4)
50+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 13th (2)
60+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 16th (1)
Team Stats:
Penalties: 129th (8.1 penalties per game)
Penalty yards: 108th (63.9 Yards per game)
Turnover margin: 24th (+0.63 per game -- 14 takeaways, 9 giveaways)
Time of possession: 5th (33:48 per game)
Seconds per play: 128th (29.7 seconds between plays, only 8 teams slower, 3 of them being Army, Navy, and Iowa. But also Ohio State)
Takeaways:
Full disclosure, I watched less of this game live than I have any Miami game in recent memory, and have only watched a little bit back on replay. So I'm not going to delve too much into discourse, simply just the pure numbers. And, as you would expect, it was a little bit of a stat-padding game for Miami. Most of the offensive and defensive season-long numbers got better.
On offense, even though we only had 385 yards of offense, we actually averaged 6.75 per play, which was the best number against a P4 opponent all year (only Bethune and USF were higher). And it's because we ran a season-low 57 plays. As usual, it was mostly a slog fest...slow, methodical, and boring, through most of the first half. 6.75 at the end of the day is a very good number, if you ran that for a season, you'd currently be ranked 14th in America. So, the explosives later in the game surely helped. 61 yard touchdown passes certainly help. I believe we had 4 plays of 30+ yards, where we had 7 such plays in the previous 7 games combined. The running game still sucked, overall. Even with the addition of Pringle, who did look quick in the plays I've seen. But our backs had 22 carries for 112 yards. 5.09 yards per carry isn't awful, but it's nowhere near good enough against a team like Syracuse. And again, I haven't seen every run yet, but the numbers suggest we pull the plug on the Jordan Lyle experiment. He is now at 3.09 yards per carry on the season. Whatever the cause is, I think it's time to say we've seen enough. Brown and Pringle should be the main backs next week with Fletcher out, and when Fletcher is back, Lyle needs to play special teams only. But, all in all, it was pretty much more of the same on offense, again with a bump due to the explosives. We're 75% of the way into this, we know who we are at this point. A defensive team, one of the best 15 or so in America, but with a very small margin for error because we just don't have a very good offense. It's depressing, but it is what it is. The offense has a good enough success rate and the defense is so good that, if we can win the turnover margin, we can win all 3 games going forward, and possibly sneak into the playoff and/or Charlotte, although those are still long-shots, and there are 500 threads for that discussion. But if we turn the ball over or commit 8+ penalties in a game (this was better against Syracuse, by the way, but still in the 100s for the season), we can lose any of these coming up. Championship level defense, average offense, pretty good to very good team is about as short and sweet as I can describe it.
The defense continues to be the star of the show. Again, not much to say here, Syracuse was a stat padding game, and we padded the stats. I was somewhat surprised to see they had 3 kids all average over 4.8 a carry, so the season rushing defensive numbers did take a small hit, but their starting QB threw for 3.4 yards per attempt with 2 picks, and we sacked them 7 times. They had 3 points with 3 minutes left in the game. This is just a really, really good defense. I don't really need to say much more than that. You can pair this defense with an above average offense and win a conference championship and compete nationally for the big trophy. It's good enough. The one thing I'll nitpick is we are 135th in the country in missed tackle rate. Pretty insane to be this good overall when you miss that many tackles, but it is what it is. Watch out for that on Saturday, NC State is 3rd in the country in yards after contact and 5th in missed tackle rate. They break a lot of tackles against everyone. We miss a lot against everyone. I hope we meet in the middle somewhere. But other than that, there's not much more to say. We defend the pass well, we are 4th in the country in yards before contact allowed, we finally had our massive sack game (pause), and we just don't give up a lot of points.
The best defense of the last decade here was 2016, and we wound up that year giving up 19.8 PPG, which ranked 13th. We are currently at 16.5 PPG allowed, which ranks 11th. I don't expect to hold NC Sate and Pitt to 17 points, but I don't expect them to score too much more than that, either. I think this is easily the best defense of the last decade here, and you can convince me it's the best of the last 20 or so years. As much **** as I give Mario, the staff, and the kids on offense, you have to give them their flowers on the other side of the ball. We took a glaring weakness and flipped it in a year. Let's see if we can hold the rope for 3 more weeks and somehow have the offense get to 30+ a game. If we just score 25 in every game this year, we're 9-0. Oh, by the way, 25 PPG is the 77th best number in America, so I'm not asking for the greatest show on turf here. Just 25 a game. Sigh. But if we can somehow get 30+ the next 3 weeks, I fully expect us to finish 10-2.
Go Canes.
Offense:
Yards per play: 46th (5.85 YPP)
Yards per game: 55th (394.1 YPG)
Points per game: 31st (31.4 PPG)
Passing yards per game: 43rd (248.5 YPG)
Passing completion percentage: 5th (71.0%)
Passing yards per attempt: 35th (8.1 YPA)
Passer rating: 29th (150.69)
Passing TDs: 52nd (14 TDs)
Interceptions: 106th (9 INTs)
Rushing yards per game: 69th (145.63 YPG)
Rushing yards per attempt: 83rd (3.96 YPA)
Rushing TDs: 30th (17)
Sacks given up per game: 6th (0.75 per game)
First Downs per game: 55th (20.9 per game)
3rd down conversion %: 31st (44.34%)
4th down conversion %: 37th (62.5%, 10 for 16 on the season)
TFLs allowed per game: 6th (3.38 per game)
Red Zone TD %: 15th (72% TD rate, 23 TDs in 32 chances)
Red Zone Scoring %: 27th (29 scores in 32 chances)
Field goal %: 14th (10 for 11)
PAT %: 1st (36 for 36)
10+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 91st (103)
20+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 96th (26)
30+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 65th (11) Season High 4 against Syracuse
40+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 74th (7)
50+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 80th (3)
60+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 60th (2)
70+ Yard Scrimmage Plays: 93rd (0)
Defense:
Yards per play allowed: 8th (4.54 YPP)
Yards per game allowed: 11th (296.9 YPG)
Points per game allowed: 11th (16.5 PPG)
Passing yards per game allowed: 47th (209 YPG)
Passing completion percentage allowed: 25th (57.8%)
Passing yards per attempt: 12th (6.1 YPA)
Passer rating allowed: 16th (115.07)
Rushing yards per game allowed: 6th (87.88 YPG)
Rushing yards per attempt allowed: 8th (2.83 YPA)
Sacks per game: 13th (2.88 sacks per game)
3rd down % allowed: 11th (32.14% allowed)
4th down % allowed: 41st (47%, opponents 8/17 on 4th down)
Red Zone td % allowed: 82nd (63.16% allowed -- 12 TDs in 19 chances)
Red Zone Scoring % allowed: 68th (84% allowed -- 16 scores in 19 chances)
Punting: 40th (44.58 Yard average)
10+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 15th (89)
20+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 22nd (27)
30+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 9th (9)
40+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 8th (4)
50+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 13th (2)
60+ Yard Scrimmage Plays allowed: 16th (1)
Team Stats:
Penalties: 129th (8.1 penalties per game)
Penalty yards: 108th (63.9 Yards per game)
Turnover margin: 24th (+0.63 per game -- 14 takeaways, 9 giveaways)
Time of possession: 5th (33:48 per game)
Seconds per play: 128th (29.7 seconds between plays, only 8 teams slower, 3 of them being Army, Navy, and Iowa. But also Ohio State)
Takeaways:
Full disclosure, I watched less of this game live than I have any Miami game in recent memory, and have only watched a little bit back on replay. So I'm not going to delve too much into discourse, simply just the pure numbers. And, as you would expect, it was a little bit of a stat-padding game for Miami. Most of the offensive and defensive season-long numbers got better.
On offense, even though we only had 385 yards of offense, we actually averaged 6.75 per play, which was the best number against a P4 opponent all year (only Bethune and USF were higher). And it's because we ran a season-low 57 plays. As usual, it was mostly a slog fest...slow, methodical, and boring, through most of the first half. 6.75 at the end of the day is a very good number, if you ran that for a season, you'd currently be ranked 14th in America. So, the explosives later in the game surely helped. 61 yard touchdown passes certainly help. I believe we had 4 plays of 30+ yards, where we had 7 such plays in the previous 7 games combined. The running game still sucked, overall. Even with the addition of Pringle, who did look quick in the plays I've seen. But our backs had 22 carries for 112 yards. 5.09 yards per carry isn't awful, but it's nowhere near good enough against a team like Syracuse. And again, I haven't seen every run yet, but the numbers suggest we pull the plug on the Jordan Lyle experiment. He is now at 3.09 yards per carry on the season. Whatever the cause is, I think it's time to say we've seen enough. Brown and Pringle should be the main backs next week with Fletcher out, and when Fletcher is back, Lyle needs to play special teams only. But, all in all, it was pretty much more of the same on offense, again with a bump due to the explosives. We're 75% of the way into this, we know who we are at this point. A defensive team, one of the best 15 or so in America, but with a very small margin for error because we just don't have a very good offense. It's depressing, but it is what it is. The offense has a good enough success rate and the defense is so good that, if we can win the turnover margin, we can win all 3 games going forward, and possibly sneak into the playoff and/or Charlotte, although those are still long-shots, and there are 500 threads for that discussion. But if we turn the ball over or commit 8+ penalties in a game (this was better against Syracuse, by the way, but still in the 100s for the season), we can lose any of these coming up. Championship level defense, average offense, pretty good to very good team is about as short and sweet as I can describe it.
The defense continues to be the star of the show. Again, not much to say here, Syracuse was a stat padding game, and we padded the stats. I was somewhat surprised to see they had 3 kids all average over 4.8 a carry, so the season rushing defensive numbers did take a small hit, but their starting QB threw for 3.4 yards per attempt with 2 picks, and we sacked them 7 times. They had 3 points with 3 minutes left in the game. This is just a really, really good defense. I don't really need to say much more than that. You can pair this defense with an above average offense and win a conference championship and compete nationally for the big trophy. It's good enough. The one thing I'll nitpick is we are 135th in the country in missed tackle rate. Pretty insane to be this good overall when you miss that many tackles, but it is what it is. Watch out for that on Saturday, NC State is 3rd in the country in yards after contact and 5th in missed tackle rate. They break a lot of tackles against everyone. We miss a lot against everyone. I hope we meet in the middle somewhere. But other than that, there's not much more to say. We defend the pass well, we are 4th in the country in yards before contact allowed, we finally had our massive sack game (pause), and we just don't give up a lot of points.
The best defense of the last decade here was 2016, and we wound up that year giving up 19.8 PPG, which ranked 13th. We are currently at 16.5 PPG allowed, which ranks 11th. I don't expect to hold NC Sate and Pitt to 17 points, but I don't expect them to score too much more than that, either. I think this is easily the best defense of the last decade here, and you can convince me it's the best of the last 20 or so years. As much **** as I give Mario, the staff, and the kids on offense, you have to give them their flowers on the other side of the ball. We took a glaring weakness and flipped it in a year. Let's see if we can hold the rope for 3 more weeks and somehow have the offense get to 30+ a game. If we just score 25 in every game this year, we're 9-0. Oh, by the way, 25 PPG is the 77th best number in America, so I'm not asking for the greatest show on turf here. Just 25 a game. Sigh. But if we can somehow get 30+ the next 3 weeks, I fully expect us to finish 10-2.
Go Canes.
