11-24-2015, 01:18 AM
Defense
On defense, Northwestern is heads and shoulders above all others, as we found out. The scary thing is that Notre Dame will be the second best team we face, though that is with their CB, who will be out against us. We are a mediocre team, as we've sort of figured out, just barely above average. We have a very large field position advantage, as we've had all year and while we give up an above-average number of yards per drive, the field position negates that. We're also pretty good at forcing three and outs (but Notre Dame is much better), but both us and ND are bad at forcing turnovers (and both teams are good at avoiding giving them up, so watch it be a sloppy, 5 turnover game).
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| Team | Opp Start | Opp Plays/dr | Opp yds/play | Opp yds/drive | Opp %yds | 3 and out% forced | eTO% forced | pts/dr given up |
| Northwestern | 70.1 | 52.0 | 4.6 | 23.8 | 34.0% | 29.2% | 17.5% | 1.25 |
| Utah | 71.1 | 57.0 | 5.0 | 28.8 | 40.5% | 22.0% | 22.9% | 1.63 |
| UDFG | 73.5 | 52.3 | 5.4 | 28.4 | 38.6% | 31.1% | 11.8% | 1.67 |
| Washington | 70.9 | 58.6 | 5.1 | 30.1 | 42.4% | 23.1% | 19.4% | 1.71 |
| UCLA | 71.5 | 63.5 | 4.9 | 30.8 | 43.1% | 23.6% | 17.9% | 1.77 |
| Stanford | 75.3 | 59.5 | 5.6 | 33.5 | 44.5% | 29.0% | 11.8% | 1.98 |
| Arizona St. | 71.5 | 49.3 | 5.9 | 29.1 | 40.7% | 29.5% | 14.7% | 1.98 |
| Washington St. | 70.1 | 60.9 | 5.9 | 36.2 | 51.6% | 15.1% | 21.7% | 2.08 |
| SC | 69.7 | 54.4 | 5.9 | 32.0 | 45.9% | 20.4% | 15.7% | 2.15 |
| Oregon | 69.2 | 59.1 | 5.9 | 35.0 | 50.5% | 18.5% | 16.0% | 2.47 |
| Colorado | 68.8 | 57.4 | 6.2 | 35.4 | 51.5% | 16.8% | 14.4% | 2.50 |
| Cal | 69.2 | 60.7 | 6.4 | 38.7 | 56.0% | 15.9% | 19.6% | 2.51 |
| Arizona | 70.3 | 59.8 | 6.2 | 36.8 | 52.4% | 20.5% | 10.7% | 2.84 |
| Central Florida | 68.0 | 57.3 | 6.7 | 38.3 | 56.3% | 18.5% | 8.7% | 3.03 |
| Oregon St. | 68.2 | 59.0 | 7.0 | 41.4 | 60.8% | 17.0% | 10.2% | 3.48 |
| Average | 70.3 | 55.9 | 5.7 | 32.0 | 45.6% | 23.3% | 16.1% | 2.16 |
On defense, Northwestern is heads and shoulders above all others, as we found out. The scary thing is that Notre Dame will be the second best team we face, though that is with their CB, who will be out against us. We are a mediocre team, as we've sort of figured out, just barely above average. We have a very large field position advantage, as we've had all year and while we give up an above-average number of yards per drive, the field position negates that. We're also pretty good at forcing three and outs (but Notre Dame is much better), but both us and ND are bad at forcing turnovers (and both teams are good at avoiding giving them up, so watch it be a sloppy, 5 turnover game).
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