Monday, December 29, 2008

Falcon Football, NCAA Rankings

So, there's lots of review of Falcon football to do. These will kind of leak in as time allows. During the season, I always put first priority on the hoops team, since that is actual live action and I don't view Falcon basketball as second class to football.

Today, I wondered how BG ranked in the NCAA...what were our best and worst categories, etc.

It is clear that our best statistical attribute was pass defense. We were in the top quarter in pass efficiency defense (30th), and pass defense (23th). I would say that this is probably a result of having two quality senior corners and a run defense that was soft for the middle part of the schedule. In fact, rush defense (85th) was our lowest ranked category, followed closely by tackles for loss (78th).

We were also 33rd in pass efficiency, which translates to 5th in the MAC (this is clearly an area where we expected to be better).

Individually, we had only one top 20 player, and that was Diryal Briggs, who was tied for 18th in sacks.

You can look here to see the rest, but they area all pretty much in the middle of the I-A pack...which is pretty much what you would expect from a 6-6 team.

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