[BrewHawk]

I started doing this in another thread, and realized it might be useful enough to merit its own post. The idea here is to use FEI to find teams that play similarly to both Iowa and Stanford, so we know which games to watch of theirs and which of ours are the most informative to how we should perform. To figure this out, I used three different FEI ratings:

Thanks for the breakdown.  The only thing I would caution about statistical analysis is that it totally ignores stylistic match-ups which will play a much bigger role than any ppg/ypg can convey.

I'm hoping this will be a slug it out game very similar to our recent BTCCG vs. Michigan St.  I'm afraid it will be more one-sided favoring Stanford due to the fact that Cook was hindered in that game and see Hogan as a comparable QB who can pick apart our defense.

We have a tendency to give opponents too much credit (especially the lesser teams on our schedule) and play so very close to the vest until we absolutely have to go guns-a-blazin'.  Not sure why we didn't go downfield more early against the Spartans to loosen up the defense and maybe open up the running game a bit more.

[BrewHawk]

I started doing this in another thread, and realized it might be useful enough to merit its own post. The idea here is to use FEI to find teams that play similarly to both Iowa and Stanford, so we know which games to watch of theirs and which of ours are the most informative to how we should perform. To figure this out, I used three different FEI ratings:

Thanks for the breakdown.  The only thing I would caution about statistical analysis is that it totally ignores stylistic match-ups which will play a much bigger role than any ppg/ypg can convey.

I'm hoping this will be a slug it out game very similar to our recent BTCCG vs. Michigan St.  I'm afraid it will be more one-sided favoring Stanford due to the fact that Cook was hindered in that game and see Hogan as a comparable QB who can pick apart our defense.

We have a tendency to give opponents too much credit (especially the lesser teams on our schedule) and play so very close to the vest until we absolutely have to go guns-a-blazin'.  Not sure why we didn't go downfield more early against the Spartans to loosen up the defense and maybe open up the running game a bit more.