Ok so our stats are pretty damn impressive in a lot of areas this year and is why I am disagreeing with anyone who hasn't bought in on this defense of ours. We are on pace to break school records in some departments. Yes, you read that correctly. You're South Florida Bulls. Let's talk about them.
Let's start with the supreme stats (some may shock you):
For all of the middling stats:
Let's start with the supreme stats (some may shock you):
- Ok to this one isn't super impressive but our completion ratio is ranked 38th at 63.2%. Lots of short passes. The stats get better, I promise.
- Tied 63rd in redzone offense scoring a TD or FG on 84.2 % of the time
- Tied for 2nd in the league only giving up 1 fumble
- 48th in tackles for loss allowed with 33, averaging 5.5 per game
- 12th in rush offense averaging 233 per game
- Our rush S&P is 120.5 which is ranked 26th
- Our OL is ranked 23rd looking at our carries (I'm sure padded with Mack behind them)
- 12th in rushing during Standard Downs, averaging 3.45 yards
- 28th in rushing during Passing Downs, averaging 3.81 yards
- 10th in opportunity rate with 46.4%. That means 46.4% the line helps get the yards needed when 5 yards are available and we get that or more.
- 33rd in stuff rate. We are only stuffed at the line 16.2% of the time.
- 38th in success rate (not adjusted) with 45.1%
- 47th in pass yards per completion with 12.91 (explosive plays. We see this when our drives have only 3-4 plays and very little time off the clock)
- Tied for 34th in the league with 7 INTs
- Tied 24th in sacks with 17, averaging 2.83 per game
- Tied 11th in tackles for loss with 49, averaging 8.2 per game
- 32nd in rushing yards allowed averaging 126.7 per game
- 47th in scoring defense allowing an average of 23.3 points per game
- Rush defense S&P is 125.7, ranked 19th
- Standard Downs our defense S&P is 110.8, ranked 39th
- Our defensive line opponent adjusted S&P is a fantastic 126.2, ranked 8th
- DL Standard Down yards allowed is 2.02, ranked 9th
- DL Passing Down yards allowed is 2.66, ranked 33rd
- DL Opportunity Rate is a fantastic 29.1%, ranked 10th
- DL Power Success rate is 61.1%, ranked 47th
- DL Stuff rate is an outstanding 32.6%, ranked 2nd
- DL passing down sack rate 9.5%, ranked 31st
- We have knocked special teams but we are 25th in kickoff returns averaging 24.69 yards per return
- Punting goes without saying. We are ranked 13th netting an average of 40.73 yards after return
- 43rd in punt returns averaging 10.43 yards
For all of the middling stats:
- 71st scoring offense averaging 28.7 points per game (something we haven't said in a while)
- Tied 73rd sacks allowed with 13, averaging 2.17 per game (helped by Flowers' scrambling ability)
- 59th in Standard Down S&P at 106.7
- Success rate on offense is average at 100.4 S&P but at least this is adjusted to reflect opponent strength
- 56th in total offense (huge, huge increase from years before)
- Third down defense we are 76th in the nation, allowing only 39.2% first downs
- Thought it would be higher but tied 51st in red zone defense allowing a TD or FG 81.3% of the time
- 63rd in total defense
- Tied 56 in turnover margin with +1
- Defense S&P is ranked 69th
- Passing defense S&P 91.7, ranked 88th
- Defense success rate S&P is an average 99.9, ranked 61st
- Defense against explosive plays is S&P 107.2, ranked 54th
- Defense opponent adjust sack S&P is 104.9, ranked 59th
- Standard down sack rate is 4.1%, ranked 80th
- Tied at 60th for fewest penalties with 41. 378 penalty yards.
- 58th in return yards allowed (I honestly thought it would be worse) with an average of 7.38 yards
