relative national rankings of stats with a Husker focus

[beorach]

I've shared details on what I'm posting here and, from this point on, the only difference is games against lower division opponents will no longer be counted.  There have been enough games played between FBS teams now.  Eventually, I might share stats from games played only between P5 teams as well.  I'm using cfbstats.com and footballperspective.com now for data and SOS rankings, respectively.  The Congrove SOS numbers I had used were based on the whole season before the games had been played (so that was a mistake).

 

Nebraska Cornhuskers by percentile (relative to national averages across the listed categories from games played to date)

 

Pass D: 32.5 (was 55.0 before Ohio State game)

Pass O: 49.2 (was 43.1)

Rush D: 48.7 (was 61.4)

Rush O: 32.0 (was 39.2)

Scoring D: 35.4 (was 57.7)

Scoring O: 42.0 (was 48.3)

Total D: 53.8 (was 72.0)

Total O: 43.1 (was 43.0)

Turnover Margin: 33.8 (was 37.0)

OVERALL Percentile Average: 41.2 (was 50.7)

DEFENSIVE Percentile Average: 42.6 (was 61.5)

OFFENSIVE Percentile Average: 41.5 (was 43.4)

 

Here are the B1G rankings for all these categories and SOS (strength of schedule with national rank given) for information only and no ranking adjustment was made per SOS:

 

PD
1	Michigan
2	Michigan State
3	Penn State
4	Ohio State
5	Minnesota
6	Purdue
7	Indiana
8	Iowa
9	Northwestern
10	Wisconsin
11	Illinois
12	Rutgers
13	Maryland
14	Nebraska
PO
1	Ohio State
2	Penn State
3	Wisconsin
4	Iowa
5	Purdue
6	Northwestern
7	Nebraska
8	Indiana
9	Michigan State
10	Minnesota
11	Maryland
12	Michigan
13	Illinois
14	Rutgers
RD
1	Wisconsin
2	Michigan
3	Michigan State
4	Ohio State
5	Penn State
6	Northwestern
7	Iowa
8	Minnesota
9	Rutgers
10	Purdue
11	Indiana
12	Nebraska
13	Illinois
14	Maryland
RO
1	Ohio State
2	Wisconsin
3	Penn State
4	Michigan State
5	Michigan
6	Minnesota
7	Northwestern
8	Rutgers
9	Nebraska
10	Maryland
11	Iowa
12	Indiana
13	Illinois
14	Purdue
SD
1	Penn State
2	Wisconsin
3	Michigan
4	Ohio State
5	Iowa
6	Michigan State
7	Minnesota
8	Purdue
9	Northwestern
10	Rutgers
11	Indiana
12	Nebraska
13	Illinois
14	Maryland
SO
1	Ohio State
2	Penn State
3	Wisconsin
4	Iowa
5	Indiana
6	Northwestern
7	Minnesota
8	Maryland
9	Nebraska
10	Purdue
11	Michigan
12	Michigan State
13	Illinois
14	Rutgers
TD
1	Michigan
2	Wisconsin
3	Michigan State
4	Penn State
5	Ohio State
6	Minnesota
7	Northwestern
8	Nebraska
9	Iowa
10	Purdue
11	Rutgers
12	Indiana
13	Illinois
14	Maryland
TO
1	Ohio State
2	Wisconsin
3	Penn State
4	Northwestern
5	Michigan State
6	Indiana
7	Nebraska
8	Michigan
9	Purdue
10	Iowa
11	Minnesota
12	Illinois
13	Maryland
14	Rutgers
Turnovers
1	Penn State
2	Ohio State
3	Minnesota
4	Purdue
5	Maryland
6	Michigan State
7	Wisconsin
8	Iowa
9	Illinois
10	Michigan
11	Nebraska
12	Northwestern
13	Rutgers
14	Indiana
SOS
5	Maryland
6	Michigan State
8	Indiana
11	Northwestern
13	Purdue
14	Iowa
19	Nebraska
23	Michigan
36	Ohio State
43	Penn State
51	Wisconsin
54	Minnesota
67	Rutgers
76	Illinois

 

Here are the Cornhusker percentiles (relative to national averages for FBS teams) for all the stats I'm tracking in the categories shared above:

 

Rushing Defense Percentiles

Yards per carry: 38.4 (was 51.5)

Yards per game: 52.3 (was 65.2)

Touchdowns per game: 55.6 (was 67.1)

 

Passing Offense Percentiles

Completions per game: 57.4 (was 47.0)

Percentage: 32.8 (was 27.2)

Yards per attempt: 42.4 (was 39.4)

Touchdowns per game: 64.0 (was 61.3)

Rating: 36.7 (was 33.3)

Yards per game: 62.2 (was 52.0)

 

Passing Defense Percentiles

Completions per game: 19.3 (was 39.2)

Percentage: 6.5 (was 18.7)

Yards per attempt: 56.8 (was 68.3)

Touchdowns per game: 42.4 (was 74.3)

Rating: 36.1 (was 61.0)

Yards per game: 51.4 (was 69.6)

 

Rushing Offense Percentiles

Yards per carry: 40.7 (was 45.1)

Touchdowns per game: 27.3 (was 34.8)

Yards per game: 28.5 (was 37.9)

 

Scoring Defense Percentiles

Touchdowns per game: 34.3 (was 57.8)

Points per game: 36.5 (was 57.6)

 

Scoring Offense Percentiles

Touchdowns per game: 43.0 (was 48.4)

Points per game: 40.8 (was 48.3)

 

Total Defense Percentiles

Yards per play: 44.5 (was 60.8)

Yards per game: 52.6 (was 73.1)

Plays per game: 64.1 (was 80.4)

 

Total Offense Percentiles

Plays per game: 39.8 (was 45.2)

Yards per play: 47.0 (was 42.6)

Yards per game: 42.4 (was 41.3)

 

Turnover Margin Percentiles:

Fumbles gained per game: 15.5 (was 19.6)

Interceptions gained per game: 60.9 (was 72.0)

Total gained per game: 33.5 (was 46.1)

Fumbles lost per game: 83.6 (was 78.6)

Interceptions lost per game: 5.9 (was 5.8)

Total lost per game: 29.5 (was 24.8)

Margin per game: 26.2 (was 30.8)

 

Here are the national rankings, with average category percentile ratings, without any adjustment having been made for SOS:

 

Rank	Team	overall
1	Ohio State	88.74
2	Alabama	88.06
3	UCF	87.43
4	South Florida	86.21
5	Penn State	85.35
6	Georgia	80.88
7	Wisconsin	78.18
8	Clemson	78.11
9	Virginia Tech	77.10
10	Auburn	76.36
11	Oklahoma State	76.30
12	Washington	75.10
13	Oklahoma	75.02
14	Notre Dame	74.11
15	TCU	72.94
16	Miami (Florida)	70.70
17	North Carolina State	68.55
18	UTSA	67.94
19	USC	67.32
20	Virginia	67.23
21	Arizona	66.81
22	Washington State	66.55
23	Stanford	65.77
24	Michigan State	65.67
25	Michigan	63.99
26	Texas	63.84
27	Utah	63.27
28	Georgia Tech	62.91
29	Marshall	62.58
30	Wake Forest	62.44
31	Southern Mississippi	62.37
32	Iowa State	62.27
33	San Diego State	61.68
34	Mississippi State	61.08
35	Oregon	60.40
36	Texas Tech	60.32
37	Minnesota	59.85
38	Colorado State	59.76
39	Western Kentucky	58.91
40	SMU	58.02
41	West Virginia	57.91
42	Toledo	57.73
43	Duke	57.72
44	Boise State	57.31
45	Louisville	57.29
46	Houston	56.99
47	LSU	56.73
48	Fresno State	56.37
49	Northern Illinois	55.74
50	Texas A&M	55.48
51	Memphis	54.99
52	Navy	54.87
53	Kansas State	54.72
54	Iowa	54.41
55	New Mexico State	54.12
56	Florida	53.95
57	Syracuse	53.82
58	Western Michigan	53.64
59	Purdue	53.42
60	South Carolina	53.40
61	Army	53.25
62	Appalachian State	52.71
63	Northwestern	51.97
64	UAB	51.49
65	Colorado	51.34
66	Eastern Michigan	51.18
67	Troy	50.98
68	Kentucky	50.46
69	Ohio	49.59
70	Florida Atlantic	49.44
71	Georgia State	48.74
72	North Texas	48.55
73	Florida State	48.00
74	Louisiana-Monroe	47.08
75	Miami (Ohio)	46.50
76	UCLA	46.34
77	Arkansas State	45.41
78	Tulane	45.30
79	Middle Tennessee	44.77
80	Coastal Carolina	44.12
81	UNLV	44.11
82	Buffalo	43.95
83	Louisiana Tech	43.74
84	Air Force	43.58
85	Arizona State	42.95
86	New Mexico	42.87
87	Hawai'i	42.74
88	Massachusetts	42.58
89	Wyoming	42.10
90	Idaho	41.98
91	Tulsa	41.97
92	Louisiana-Lafayette	41.62
93	Indiana	41.62
94	California	41.47
95	Nebraska	41.15
96	Utah State	40.18
97	Mississippi	39.82
98	Central Michigan	37.84
99	Temple	36.61
100	Arkansas	36.27
101	Florida International	35.87
102	Boston College	35.69
103	North Carolina	35.44
104	Ball State	35.27
105	Tennessee	34.76
106	Pittsburgh	33.51
107	Nevada	32.80
108	Connecticut	32.28
109	Rutgers	30.39
110	South Alabama	30.37
111	Akron	30.17
112	Illinois	29.58
113	Maryland	29.53
114	Bowling Green	26.30
115	Cincinnati	25.66
116	Georgia Southern	25.10
117	Vanderbilt	24.98
118	Kent State	24.90
119	Texas State	24.31
120	Baylor	22.69
121	Kansas	22.10
122	Charlotte	21.88
123	East Carolina	21.05
124	Oregon State	20.50
125	BYU	19.58
126	Rice	18.87
127	Missouri	18.38
128	Old Dominion	16.64
129	UTEP	14.24
130	San Jose State	12.19

 

[brophog]

95th vs 3rd

 

I have no idea why one topic is dominating the boards.

 

[Cy the Cyclone]

Wow...32nd nationally!  Oops...uh, I mean...bummer.

[Big red surfers]

On top of that. We continue to get mentioned in espn Bottm 10 list.  

[In the Deed the Glory]

Thats a lot of stats to say we don't have a very good football team right now.

[BIG ERN]

B10 STATS:

Scoring PPG: 11th 

Defense PPG: 13th 

Rushing Offense: 12th

Rushing YPC: 8th 

Rushing Defense: 10th

Passing Offense: 4th

Passing Defense: 10th

Sacks Forced: T-10th 

Sacks allowed/Game: 3rd 

TFL: 12th 

Penalties: 9th

TO Margin: 12th 

Red Zone Conversion %: 12th 

[beorach]

14 hours ago, Cy the Cyclone said:

Wow...32nd nationally!  Oops...uh, I mean...bummer.

 

ISU percentile breakdown:

 

pass o: 74.1

pass d: 35.0

rush o: 25.8

rush d: 85.9

scoring o: 75.5

scoring d: 75.3

total o: 47.5

total d: 68.4

turnover  margin: 72.9

SOS national rank: 40th

[Nebfanatic]

13 minutes ago, BIG ERN said:

B10 STATS:

Scoring PPG: 11th 

Defense PPG: 13th 

Rushing Offense: 12th

Rushing YPC: 8th 

Rushing Defense: 10th

Passing Offense: 4th

Passing Defense: 10th

Sacks Forced: T-10th 

Sacks allowed/Game: 3rd 

TFL: 12th 

Penalties: 9th

TO Margin: 12th 

Red Zone Conversion %: 12th 

We suck across the board but it's nice to see us at 3rd in sacks allowed. Alot of people thought we'd be 14th in the preseason with our statue qb

[beorach]

14 hours ago, In the Deed the Glory said:

Thats a lot of stats to say we don't have a very good football team right now.

 

Let's be fair, though.  We have loads of people regularly saying worse than that without sharing factual information.  I need to start keeping a record so I can provide a graph spanning multiple coaches, years, decades...  The stats are still there (going back to 2008 on cfbstats.com) so it'd just be a matter of time and effort.  2012's historical scores are looking similar to this season's but the conference was weaker back then.  Michigan and Penn State certainly were anyway...and then you had Iowa and Minnesota arguably.  We had to get our blowout loss to Wisconsin in the CCG, too.

[beorach]

30 minutes ago, BIG ERN said:

B10 STATS:

Scoring PPG: 11th 

Defense PPG: 13th 

Rushing Offense: 12th

Rushing YPC: 8th 

Rushing Defense: 10th

Passing Offense: 4th

Passing Defense: 10th

Sacks Forced: T-10th 

Sacks allowed/Game: 3rd 

TFL: 12th 

Penalties: 9th

TO Margin: 12th 

Red Zone Conversion %: 12th 

 

The only issue I have with any of that is they're only considering one stat within each of those categories to determine rankings.  E.g., passing offense rank is determined by passing yards per game only.  Never mind how many touchdowns you scored with the pass, how high your completion percentage is, etc.

[jessica0]

37 minutes ago, BIG ERN said:

B10 STATS:

Scoring PPG: 11th 

Defense PPG: 13th 

Rushing Offense: 12th

Rushing YPC: 8th 

Rushing Defense: 10th

Passing Offense: 4th

Passing Defense: 10th

Sacks Forced: T-10th 

Sacks allowed/Game: 3rd 

TFL: 12th 

Penalties: 9th

TO Margin: 12th 

Red Zone Conversion %: 12th 

 

The stats show this is a bottom tier team. The eye test says the same thing. 

[Street Novelist]

So, in other words, we're not good at anything?

[KingBlank]

2 hours ago, beorach said:

 

The only issue I have with any of that is they're only considering one stat within each of those categories to determine rankings.  E.g., passing offense rank is determined by passing yards per game only.  Never mind how many touchdowns you scored with the pass, how high your completion percentage is, etc.

Well if you add those in it probably makes it worse

[neepster]

18 hours ago, Cy the Cyclone said:

Wow...32nd nationally!  Oops...uh, I mean...bummer.

 

Not sure where you are getting that 32nd nationally thing...  the only 32 I see in that data is Pass D and Rush O and both of those are percentiles, which means that literally 68% of teams are BETTER than us in that.  We aren't 32nd.  We are considerably worse than that.

[brophog]

1 minute ago, neepster said:

We aren't 32nd

 

We arent Iowa St, either.