Statistical Comparison Writeup

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NOTABLES

The SMU Mustangs are ranked in the bottom 25 in 33 of 53 team categories that I track.

The SMU Mustangs best quarter is a quarter in which they have not scored any points, but have remarkably limited their opponents to only 13 points.

The Aggies scored 38 points on Rice and only had the ball for 16:46.

Deion Sanders, Jr. has returned 12 kickoffs for 199 yards averaging 16.6 per return. One of those returns was a 58 yarder, meaning the average of the other 11 was 10.8 yards per return YIKES!

SMU has no kicking statistics. They have not attempted a Field Goal or Extra Point yet this season.

SMU's punter returner, Cedric Lancaster, averages (-4.3) yards per return AVERAGES MINUS RETURN YARDAGE.

Mustang RB Prescott Line is their 2nd leading rusher with a long of 11. He averages 9 yards per game. Meaning he has 3 runs besides his 11-yarder that have gone for 7 yards cumulative.

Kenny Hill is in the Top 5 in the country in the following categories: Passing Yards, Passing Touchdowns, Fewest interceptions. In fact, Kenny is 1 of 27 QBs who has yet to throw his first interception in 2014. Among those 27 QBs, he has the most attempts and completions. Only 11 QBs with 0 interceptions have participated in 3 games already this season.

Myles Garrett needs 2.5 sacks to tie Jadaveon Clowney's SEC Freshman Sack Record; SMU allows 6.5 sacks per game.

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vUSC || vLamar || vRice

Living up to that handle

-7 and -11

cant stop laughing

Gold. Forgot all about these

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-7 and -11

cant stop laughing

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How do you have negative points?

Note: SMU is so bad they literally made me rewrite my formula to put a floor at 0 points... i didn't think a team could go negative, but I left it that way this week. The new formula will go into effect versus Arkansas next week.

Also, there is a mistake on SMU's points per yard and points per play offense - those should be:
SMU Points per Yard Offense: 11th 128th .048
SMU Points per Play Offense: 11th 128th .0176
(these changes do not affect their score of -7 and -11... wow)

Lastly, I forgot to add Justin Bass's class year, which is Senior (SR).

Thanks.

You've truly blown my mind. Thank you.

Watch us go in tied at half time. Oh the meltdown would be epic.

Negative points!

Spreadsheet updated

I have no doubt we'll blow them out. However, those young men are D1 athletes who gave up and quit playing under Jones. It will be interesting to see how the first quarter or so goes.

What was the predicted Rice score?

Too long; read anyway

When I saw the post on Twitter about negative points I was hoping you wouldn't change the algorithm.

Nice work as always

Just a heads up spreadsheet, you have our game against SC listed as "Home"

Love these threads

I look forward to these every week. Big thank you to Spreadsheet for the time & effort.

Deion Sanders, Jr.?

Negative points! Not saying this is the first time "The Spreadsheet" showed negative points, but it's the first time I've caught it.

Awesome.

I like the Keeled Houseboats heading!

SMU broke the spreadsheet.

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Myles Garrett needs 2.5 sacks to tie Jadaveon Clowney's SEC Freshman Sack Record; SMU allows 6.5 sacks per game.

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O/U on sacks by Garrett? Six?

Pass defense stats can be very misleading. Back in the 70-80s, Rice always has one of the statistical best pass defenses in the country. However, when you took a closer look, you saw that they were giving up 7-8 yards per rushing attempt. Opponents never bothered to pass since they could score every possession just running the ball. But their "fewest passing yards per game stats" were always among the nation's best.

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Living up to that handle

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