10-27-2017, 10:24 AM
(10-27-2017, 10:17 AM)Sea Loon link Wrote:My feeling is that the entire team's home/away performance split is even more pronounced this year than usual, but I don't know I can easily rustle up the stats to prove it, or compare it to our previous teams or other teams.
Or, I should say, it feels like the offense is particularly prone to home/away performance issues. The defense, save being beat by a healthy U$C firing-on-all-early-season-cylinders, has felt more consistent, even if consistent means me gritting my teeth every time the other team decides to run the ball.
I dunno about all that. The defense has been mediocre overall this year; it's benefitted from substantial turnovers luck.
But, yes, broadly the road performances have been poor all year. I'd rank them thusly:
GOOD: none
SOLID: Utah
AVERAGE: None
POOR: SDSU, SC
AWFUL: OSU
In the past, of course, Stanford's had several good or great road performances (2012 Oregon, 2013 Pac-12 champ game @ ASU, 2015 @ SC, to name a few off the top of my head). This year has been notable for the sheer odor of underperformance.