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Week 6: Rutgers- Depth Chart, Notes, Odds & Ends, Etc

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Week 6: Rutgers- Depth Chart, Notes, Odds & Ends, Etc

I will start the Official Al Gore Apology thread given that it's going to be 95 in fucking October at the only game I'm going to all year
We’re sending the shit we’re having in Phoenix right now to the rest of the country. Was wonderful weather for a couple of weeks and then horrible heat wave hit. Summer all over again
 
Looking at some numbers.

We have the #15 rushing defense right now. But we played Colorado (#124 rush offense), Illinois (#98), Purdue (#79), UTEP (#126), and an FCS team. It would be hard not to be a top-rated rush defense with that kind of schedule. Against a good rushing team, the numbers ain't gonna be so pretty.

And as it happens, Rutgers is #12...
 
Looking at some numbers.

We have the #15 rushing defense right now. But we played Colorado (#124 rush offense), Illinois (#98), Purdoodoo (#79), UTEP (#126), and an FCS team. It would be hard not to be a top-rated rush defense with that kind of schedule. Against a good rushing team, the numbers ain't gonna be so pretty.

And as it happens, Rutgers is #12...
A stat I always thought would be super insightful but that I haven't seen anyone track anywhere, is how a team does relative to their opponents' averages.

i.e. if CU averages 80 ypg rushing and we hold them to 60, we've overperformed in that aspect by 20 yards. If Army averages 330 ypg rushing & we hold them to 220, we've overperformed by 110. If Purdue averaged 50 ypg rushing & we gave up 80, we've underperformed by 30, so what looks good statistically in a vacuum is put in context. Then you rank teams by who's overperforming the most.

As the season develops, you really get to see which aspects your team under or overperforms in, relative to the competition.

I know we have some stat nerds here that love to work on these things - the trick is ideally you need to update every team's stats every week, and get them in some standardized format so that you can just have Excel formulas or something giving you updated stats based on the newest averages.
 
Looking at some numbers.

We have the #15 rushing defense right now. But we played Colorado (#124 rush offense), Illinois (#98), Purdoodoo (#79), UTEP (#126), and an FCS team. It would be hard not to be a top-rated rush defense with that kind of schedule. Against a good rushing team, the numbers ain't gonna be so pretty.

And as it happens, Rutgers is #12...

Purdue was 32nd nationally in rushing going into last week's game. In fact, it was a pretty obnoxious listening to Husker media talking about the matchup with "Crazy Legs Mockobee."

Nebraska shut them down, and now they have slid way back in that national rushing list.

Also can we stop acting like Illinois and Rutgers have similar running games? Illinois runs the football almost exclusively out of the RPO. Rutgers is going to run the ball downhill
 
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