Athletic piece on stop rate
The Athletic article linked below (paywalled ) focuses on the stop rate of CFP ranked team Stop rate is simply the % of opponents drives ending in punt, turnovers and turnovers on downs There is also rankings of offensive success rate, % of druves resulting in scores UGA and Michigan are the only schools to rank in the top 10 in both categories…so I guess we’ll be playing the Bulldogs in the National Championship game
November 17th, 2021 at 12:04 PM ^
It's amazing to me the job these guys did with this team this year. A new defensive staff, except Nua, and 2 really late additions (Bellamy, and Clinkscale). An offensive shakeup and moving Jay to special teams. I'm am so impressed and pleased with how this has turned out regardless of how thing end. Having said that beat maryland and beat OSU and I will cream my pants.
November 17th, 2021 at 12:19 PM ^
And it's year 1. With much less than 1 year of staff cohesion and player development. Great trend.
November 17th, 2021 at 12:32 PM ^
TMI, but I’m hoping you cream your pants.
November 17th, 2021 at 12:47 PM ^
I doubt you'll cream your pants, because you won't be wearing any. I know I won't.
November 17th, 2021 at 12:07 PM ^
Lost in the discussion on Michigan's red zone woes is that they've been excellent at moving the ball overall. An optimist's view would be that Michigan is squeezing out field goals from drives that would be punts for other teams. It should be noted that Georgia also has poor red zone offense numbers.
November 17th, 2021 at 2:22 PM ^
It's been painful because Michigan has gotten in the red zone a helluva lot this year (top ten in red zone opportunities if I'm not mistaken).
November 17th, 2021 at 12:07 PM ^
so I guess we’ll be playing the Bulldogs in the National Championship game
Get it done boys. Bring on the Lucy talk. Bring on Hope. Bring on victories against Maryland and OSU.
November 17th, 2021 at 12:08 PM ^
To anyone we face...Boom
November 17th, 2021 at 12:16 PM ^
I have a sub and based on that ranking list I am still stunned we lost to sparty. For reference
Here is an excerpt of the list
November 17th, 2021 at 12:21 PM ^
Yeah, while the strip sack TD may not have won the game , it certainly would have made it more likely
November 17th, 2021 at 2:14 PM ^
What Michigan State lacks in play-to-play efficiency, they've made up for in explosive plays and prepared attacks on opponent weaknesses.
Tucker successfully identified cracks in the Michigan defense with tempo. I'm not sure I've ever seen a team get set after a play as quickly as the Spartans did when they went tempo, and it absolutely was a huge equalizer in that game.
November 17th, 2021 at 3:34 PM ^
Michigan was terrible against 4th down plays in the MSU game. I'd say that was a bigger cause of the loss than the reversed strip sack. They weren't that great against PSU either.
November 17th, 2021 at 12:23 PM ^
"so I guess we’ll be playing the Bulldogs in the National Championship game"
Makes sense to me.
November 17th, 2021 at 12:29 PM ^
Right? Connect the fancy stats with CFB's transitive powers, and its a no-brainer!
November 17th, 2021 at 1:26 PM ^
November 17th, 2021 at 1:48 PM ^
"druves": the post-past-imperfect participle of "druther"?
November 19th, 2021 at 10:38 AM ^
Throw that shit out till we play OSU. This seasons been a shocker from early precision’s, but not getting run out of our own stadium is where the rubber meets the road. I won’t be upset with a close loss as I expect to lose. Just no ass throttling like I’ve sadly grown accustomed to.