Nebraska Defense By The Numbers

[The Maudfather]

Opponent Yards/Game: 440.5 -- ranked 8th in the B1G and 82nd nationally

Opponent Points/Game: 26.8 -- ranked 9th in the B1G and 59th nationally

Opponent Yards/Play: 5.8 -- ranked 9th in the B1G and 89th nationally

Opponent Yards/Rush Attempt: 4.3 -- ranked 9th in the B1G and 73rd nationally

Opponent Yards/Pass Attempt: 7.9 -- ranked 9th in the B1G and 84th nationally

Opponent Points/Play: .354 -- ranked 10th in the B1G and 56th natoinally

Takeaways/Game: 2.2 -- ranked 2nd in the B1G and 28th nationally

 

Probably about what you thought they were when you opened this thread. While our defense has been opportunistic with takeaways, we still have a long way to go in just about every other area.

[EZ-E]

Agree with your point. But anyone that didn't see improvement in last weeks game just simply didn't watch in my opinion.

[NUinID]

I believe a lot of those stats were about 20 pts. lower a week ago.

[Huskerzoo]

With a front 7 as inexperienced as ours is, I'm ok with how things are going. I still like this team this year, and I think next years team is going to be insane.

[QMany]

Yes, our defense is not great, but take these rankings with a grain of salt.

 

We have faced teams with pretty good Total Offense Rankings, and they aren't just from facing us: UCLA (4th), Wyoming (16th), Illinois (40th).

 

Michigan is ranked 13th in Total Defense and 2nd in the Big Ten.

They have had the opportunity to face the offenses of Notre Dame (86th), Minnesota (106th), Central Michigan (109th), Akron (112th), and UCONN (119th out of 123!).

[admo]

And in three weeks or so, the meat and potatoes part of the schedule gets good. Getting turnovers is always helpful leveraging some of those stats or weaknesses. Hope we keep ball hawking and forcing turnovers. Would help a lot.

[admo]

Yes, our defense is not great, but take these rankings with a grain of salt.

 

We have faced teams with pretty good Total Offense Rankings, and they aren't just from facing us: UCLA (4th), Wyoming (16th), Illinois (40th).

 

Michigan is ranked 13th in Total Defense and 2nd in the Big Ten.

They have had the opportunity to face the offenses of Notre Dame (86th), Minnesota (106th), Central Michigan (109th), Akron (112th), and UCONN (119th out of 123!).

 

See that's a good point. Those teams do have good offenses that could give problems to most teams. A question though; Are those rankings prior to playing us? Or do those rankings include playing us?

[QMany]

Yes, our defense is not great, but take these rankings with a grain of salt.

 

We have faced teams with pretty good Total Offense Rankings, and they aren't just from facing us: UCLA (4th), Wyoming (16th), Illinois (40th).

 

Michigan is ranked 13th in Total Defense and 2nd in the Big Ten.

They have had the opportunity to face the offenses of Notre Dame (86th), Minnesota (106th), Central Michigan (109th), Akron (112th), and UCONN (119th out of 123!).

See that's a good point. Those teams do have good offenses that could give problems to most teams. A question though; Are those rankings prior to playing us? Or do those rankings include playing us?

Those rankings do include playing us. We did hold UCLA and Illinois well below their season averages, 57 and 85 yards respectively. Wyoming, not so much.