Week 9 What Are We Learning

TCU scored long TDs in the final :30 of each half to cover the 1H, 2H and full game numbers

The Ohio State DL guy was awesome, but overall if their D played more Os capable of moving the ball they wouldn't have the stat rankings they do, there are holes there. I don't watch much Ohio State, I will compliment their pass blocking. Penn State went from winning the game, to not covering a 15.5 pt line over a 7 minute span in the 4th Q. I'm happy they backdoored.

I watched perhaps the most unimpressive dominating win I've ever seen, I'm talking about Michigan's offense

Charlotte, good enough to win as 20 and 16 pt dogs, bad enough to lose as a 14 pt favorite = volatile

I would've liked to see Nebraska QB Thompson play the whole game

Wish WF would've had their shit the bed game last week, but I'll take this one

Navy just had senior day already! Two road games and two neutral games remain

Will Levis reminds me of Josh Allen....except much much much much worse, much worse

USC was without their top 2 WRs and their 2 of their top 3 LBs
 
You couldn't ask for a better Bill Snyder V2 than Klieman.

Decent talent. But maximum effort, execution and results.

Love that team.
It’s pretty wild. Snyder one of my all time favorites and it looks plug n play.

That Tulane win looks pretty good.
 
Some things that jump out from the basic box score review from Pointwise. I won't have time to post the detail behind any of these right now.

Akron outgained Miami Oh 396-268, but lost 9-27. Akron was -3 TOs.

Arkansas only outgained Auburn 520-468, but won by 14.

Cal and Oregon each threw 2 INTs which I would bet played some role in determining the margin of victory. Ducks did outgain them 586-402.

UCF outgained Cincinnati 505-333, but only won by 4. UCF was -2 TOs.

Arizona State nearly outgained Colorado by 200y - 557-359, note that ASU passed for 435! ASU only won 42-34 (each team lost 1 TO).

Boston College outgained UConn 335-280, but were -4 TOs net and lost by 10

Toledo outgained Eastern Michigan 371-217, but only won by 3. Each team lost 1 TO

UAB outgained FAU by over 100y, 472-359, but lost 17-24. There were no turnovers

LaTech outgained FIU 440-378, but lost in OT. There were no turnovers

FSU "only" won by 25 despite outgaining GT 642-264. FSU -2 TOs

San Diego State lost by 4 despite outgaining Fresno 449-391, but Aztecs lost 5 TOs while Fresno lost 2. Fresno was held to negative 3 rushing yards.

Georgia was -3 TOs, they outgained FL 555-371. UGA didn't cover

Wyoming was -2 TOs, they outgained Hawaii 441-350. WYO didn't cover

Houston only outgained USF by 61y, but won by 15

Iowa State lost 13-27, but they outgained Oklahoma 374-332. ISU lost 3 TOs (-2 net)

Wake Forest lost a total of 8 TOs (-7 net). Louisville only outgained them by 8 yards, but won by 27

Marshall had a 407-271 yardage edge ,but were -2 TOs vs Coastal Carolina. Coastal won 24-13

Rutgers was held below 100y both rushing and passing (7 first downs). They also were -3 TOs

Temple outgained Navy 288-224, but lost 3 TOs (-2 net) and lost 20-27

Nebraska lost 4 TOs (-3 net) - Huskers were held to just 9 first downs

Penn State outgained Ohio State 482-452, but PSU lost 4 TOs

San Jose outgained Nevada 365-287, but struggled to win by 7. Each team lost 1 TO

Missouri more than doubled South Carolina 367-171 in yards and SC lost 2 TOs

ULL ougained Southern Miss 439-339, but lost 24-39. ULL lost 4 TOs (net -2)

Texas Tech threw 5 INTs

UCLA had commanding 523-270 TY edge over Stanford and feels like they were more than 25 pts better. Each team lost 1 TO.

Virginia had 55 more yards than Miami but lost in OT. No turnovers

TCU only outgained WVU by 60y, won by 10. Each team lost 2 TOs

North Texas won 40-13 at WKU, but UNT only outgained them by 75y. WKU lost 2 TOs
 
Some 2H scores:

USF at Houston 13-14
OSU at PSU 31-17
Tol at EM 17-7
Ark at Aub 24-14
BC at UConn 0-3
Char at Rice 28-6
ODU at GaSt 3-17
NW at Iowa 13-13
ILL at Neb 6-0
Cin at UCF 15-15
Ore at Cal 21-14
SMU at Tulsa 21-24
Temp at Navy 17-14 (17-7 regulation)
NMSU at UMass 13-0
WF at LV 35-7 (35 in the 3rd Q!)
UNT at WKU 20-0
FL vs UGA 17-14
Mizz at SCar 6-3
USC at Arz 28-24
CSU at Boise 0-21
UAB at FAU 3-14
CC at Marsh 3-3
UK at Tenn 0-17
ASU at CU 14-17
MSU at Mich 0-16
Bay at TT 28-14
OM at A&M 21-14
Pitt at UNC 7-28
MTSU at UTEP 14-3
Stan at UCLA 7-14
SD St at Fres 7-22
UNR at SJSU 14-28
WYO at Haw 17-10
ECU at BYU 10-7
LT at FIU 17-18 (LT 17-10 regulation)
VT at NCSU 21-19
ULL at SMiss 13-10
Utah at WSU 7-10
 
Teams who have had the most different starters this year:

New Mexico (47)
Texas A&M (43)
BYU (42)

All 3 have losing records.
 
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