Fargo Husker said:

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Is it % of successful drives? Successful plays? What determines success for a play/drive?

In college football, "success rate" measures how often a team stays "on schedule" to achieve a first down by gaining at least 50% of the required yards on 1st down, 70% on 2nd down, and 100% on 3rd or 4th down. For defenses, it's the inverse: they are successful when they prevent the offense from achieving these yardage goals. This efficiency-based metric helps evaluate a team's ability to consistently advance the ball and stay in favorable down-and-distance situations, which is more predictive of winning than traditional stats like yards per play.