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I did the same thing earlier this year after our non conf sched. I was interested to see what the differences were in the year end numbers.
our record we know 2011 was 11-2 and 2010 was 7-6. We were 6-2 in conf this year as opposed to 3-5 last year. It is nice to be near the tops in the conference again.
Last year we scored an average of 32.8 pts a game while this year we scored 33.3 pts a game. I was actually rather surprised that we scored more on average this year especially seeing that RR was such an offensive genius an all. last year we rushed for 3101 yds while this year it was 2884 And passing yds last year were 3252 while this year was 2377. Funny when you look at it. We gained less yds but scored more points. Now some of that is because we did have several defensive TD's. But also this year we were more ball control with 31 min in TOP this year compared to 27 min in 2010. We maximized our possessions this year.
The big difference as we all know was in the defense. Last year we gave up an average of 35.2 pts a game while this year we gave up an avg of just 17.4. It's just an amazing difference. But I was also interested in the yds we gave up. Last year we gave up 2456 yds rushing while this year we gave up just 1712. While in passing yds last year we gave up 3404 while this year we gave up 2476 yds. So for the year we gave up about 1700 less yds this year compared to last. Mattison may be the highest paid assistant in the B10 but he earned every penny
Another defensive stat that stunned me as to how bad we were last year is in terms of the red zone. Last year opponents made it into the red zone 57 times of those they scored 37 tds and and 12 FG's. So they scored points 89% of the time they made it to the red zone. This year teams made it into the red zone just 41 times with just 21 TD's and 6 FG's meaning teams scored just 68% of the time when inside our red zone. Also there was a huge difference in the total number of TD's given up. Last year we gave up 54 TD's total while this year just 26.
our record we know 2011 was 11-2 and 2010 was 7-6. We were 6-2 in conf this year as opposed to 3-5 last year. It is nice to be near the tops in the conference again.
Last year we scored an average of 32.8 pts a game while this year we scored 33.3 pts a game. I was actually rather surprised that we scored more on average this year especially seeing that RR was such an offensive genius an all. last year we rushed for 3101 yds while this year it was 2884 And passing yds last year were 3252 while this year was 2377. Funny when you look at it. We gained less yds but scored more points. Now some of that is because we did have several defensive TD's. But also this year we were more ball control with 31 min in TOP this year compared to 27 min in 2010. We maximized our possessions this year.
The big difference as we all know was in the defense. Last year we gave up an average of 35.2 pts a game while this year we gave up an avg of just 17.4. It's just an amazing difference. But I was also interested in the yds we gave up. Last year we gave up 2456 yds rushing while this year we gave up just 1712. While in passing yds last year we gave up 3404 while this year we gave up 2476 yds. So for the year we gave up about 1700 less yds this year compared to last. Mattison may be the highest paid assistant in the B10 but he earned every penny
Another defensive stat that stunned me as to how bad we were last year is in terms of the red zone. Last year opponents made it into the red zone 57 times of those they scored 37 tds and and 12 FG's. So they scored points 89% of the time they made it to the red zone. This year teams made it into the red zone just 41 times with just 21 TD's and 6 FG's meaning teams scored just 68% of the time when inside our red zone. Also there was a huge difference in the total number of TD's given up. Last year we gave up 54 TD's total while this year just 26.
