Think on that for a few minutes. I'm betting the team you pick isn't the correct choice. I certainly didn't guess right when I came across this write up.
As with FSH, this is getting into some solid football talk. I'd suggest taking the time and reading over the article linked at the end of this post. It offers some interesting insight.
Now, who did you guess? Me? I thought A&M.
In the definition used here, A&M comes in below Kentucky and Georgia. Below Miss. State. Below Auburn.
Ole Miss leads the SEC with over 80% of the tackles made against their offense unassisted.
Which conference? No surprise there. The Big12.
Here's the link...good stuff.
As with FSH, this is getting into some solid football talk. I'd suggest taking the time and reading over the article linked at the end of this post. It offers some interesting insight.
60 solo tackles, no assists.
Each Sunday during the college football season, I go through each FBS box score to pick out oddities, trends, great (or terrible) performances, etc., and I occasionally come across something that startles me.
On September 7 in Lubbock, Texas Tech beat Stephen F. Austin, 61-13, in a mostly unremarkable "decent team whips FCS opponent" affair. Jace Amaro caught eight passes for 142 yards, and Tech's two freshman quarterbacks had a solid game, but for the most part this game was less than memorable.
But SFA's defensive stats caught my eye: The Lumberjacks did not record a single assisted tackle.
Not one.
The word "spread" has come to describe about 38 different styles of offense in college football. If you line your tight end up detached from the line, you're a spread. If you utilize mostly four wideouts, you're a spread. Hell, if your quarterback lines up mostly in the shotgun, you're a spread. These all have kernels of truth in them, but at this point, the spread has mostly lost its meaning. Saying a team runs a "spread" offense tells you almost nothing about what kind of offense the team actually runs.
At its heart, though, the spread ethos is about putting playmakers in space and giving them room to make plays. It originally developed as an underdog tactic of sorts, as a way to spread out and harry more talented defenses and hopefully force some mistakes. But there is a certain level of tactical superiority to the idea, and after a while, a lot of the most talented teams in the country began to employ more and more spread tactics.
But who actually spread you out the most in 2013? Whether a team is actually doing it well or not, the spread is designed to create numbers advantages and get the ball-carrier away from a mass of tacklers. That often leads to solo tackles. So which offensive systems led to the most solo tackles?
First, we'll test this method by looking at full-conference results. (I'm also including average Off. and Def. F/+ ratings for each conference, just in case there's some correlation to be made there.)
Each Sunday during the college football season, I go through each FBS box score to pick out oddities, trends, great (or terrible) performances, etc., and I occasionally come across something that startles me.
On September 7 in Lubbock, Texas Tech beat Stephen F. Austin, 61-13, in a mostly unremarkable "decent team whips FCS opponent" affair. Jace Amaro caught eight passes for 142 yards, and Tech's two freshman quarterbacks had a solid game, but for the most part this game was less than memorable.
But SFA's defensive stats caught my eye: The Lumberjacks did not record a single assisted tackle.
Not one.
The word "spread" has come to describe about 38 different styles of offense in college football. If you line your tight end up detached from the line, you're a spread. If you utilize mostly four wideouts, you're a spread. Hell, if your quarterback lines up mostly in the shotgun, you're a spread. These all have kernels of truth in them, but at this point, the spread has mostly lost its meaning. Saying a team runs a "spread" offense tells you almost nothing about what kind of offense the team actually runs.
At its heart, though, the spread ethos is about putting playmakers in space and giving them room to make plays. It originally developed as an underdog tactic of sorts, as a way to spread out and harry more talented defenses and hopefully force some mistakes. But there is a certain level of tactical superiority to the idea, and after a while, a lot of the most talented teams in the country began to employ more and more spread tactics.
But who actually spread you out the most in 2013? Whether a team is actually doing it well or not, the spread is designed to create numbers advantages and get the ball-carrier away from a mass of tacklers. That often leads to solo tackles. So which offensive systems led to the most solo tackles?
First, we'll test this method by looking at full-conference results. (I'm also including average Off. and Def. F/+ ratings for each conference, just in case there's some correlation to be made there.)
Now, who did you guess? Me? I thought A&M.
In the definition used here, A&M comes in below Kentucky and Georgia. Below Miss. State. Below Auburn.
Ole Miss leads the SEC with over 80% of the tackles made against their offense unassisted.
Which conference? No surprise there. The Big12.
Here's the link...good stuff.
