[CrazedZooChimp]

The yards per attempt or completion stats just show that Stanford does well when it does pass, not that Stanford passes a sufficient number of times per game to keep defenses honest.

Well, in terms of passing a certain number of times per game, the percentage of pass plays against WSU was almost identical to UW (1/3, although that doesn't include sacks which are counted as runs for the NCAA, I think).  Against NW we threw the ball more times than we ran, so that wasn't a case of not passing enough.  Really we should have run more, CMac's per carry average in that game was way better than our yards per attempt...

Actually, looking at our other games, it's impressive how many times we've hit almost exactly that 1/3, 2/3 split of pass and run.  Only ones that weren't like that were NW, OSU, and UCLA.

[CrazedZooChimp]

The yards per attempt or completion stats just show that Stanford does well when it does pass, not that Stanford passes a sufficient number of times per game to keep defenses honest.

Well, in terms of passing a certain number of times per game, the percentage of pass plays against WSU was almost identical to UW (1/3, although that doesn't include sacks which are counted as runs for the NCAA, I think).  Against NW we threw the ball more times than we ran, so that wasn't a case of not passing enough.  Really we should have run more, CMac's per carry average in that game was way better than our yards per attempt...

Actually, looking at our other games, it's impressive how many times we've hit almost exactly that 1/3, 2/3 split of pass and run.  Only ones that weren't like that were NW, OSU, and UCLA.