If Bonagura is posting this, presumably ESPN is keeping per drive stats. I haven't seen those publicly available.
However, there are a ton of interesting per drive stats available at Brian Fremeau's site (Fremeau of FEI):
www.bcftoys.com
While there are a few issues, overall it is one of my favorite college football stat sites.
This seemed a place to plug it.
That's mostly because of the detailed time frame used.
This was 2014-18 (so mostly 2014-17).
Stanford's really great defense run was 2010-2014 (with a little dip in 2011).
Stanford had a great offense in 2015 and pretty good last year.
EDIT - maybe that needs some more thought.
According to bcftoys, Stanford's year by year offense and defense points per drive ranks were:
Year OPD DPD
2014 #50 #8
2015 #2 #48
2016 #62 #16
2017 #18 #60
Pretty close. But so were the 4+ year averages from Bonagura of #23 and #25
However, there are a ton of interesting per drive stats available at Brian Fremeau's site (Fremeau of FEI):
www.bcftoys.com
While there are a few issues, overall it is one of my favorite college football stat sites.
This seemed a place to plug it.
(09-14-2018, 12:50 PM)washingtonismoney Wrote: Was surprised the defense ranked lower than the offense. I'm more sanguine about the offense than most Stanford fans, but I wouldn't've predicted this.
That's mostly because of the detailed time frame used.
This was 2014-18 (so mostly 2014-17).
Stanford's really great defense run was 2010-2014 (with a little dip in 2011).
Stanford had a great offense in 2015 and pretty good last year.
EDIT - maybe that needs some more thought.
According to bcftoys, Stanford's year by year offense and defense points per drive ranks were:
Year OPD DPD
2014 #50 #8
2015 #2 #48
2016 #62 #16
2017 #18 #60
Pretty close. But so were the 4+ year averages from Bonagura of #23 and #25