season stats and rankings considering FBS games only

[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 teamrankings.com.  ***UPDATE: See a response from me below (because it's tough to edit after you've pasted so much for me) if you want to see all the individual percentile rankings for stats within these categories.***

 

Nebraska Cornhuskers by percentile (relative to national averages across the listed categories from 4 games played)

 

Pass D: 42.7

Pass O: 26.6

Rush D: 73.3

Rush O: 46.8

Scoring D: 46.3

Scoring O: 57.6

Total D: 62.2

Total O: 45.2

Turnover Margin: 38.4

OVERALL Percentile Average: 48.8

DEFENSIVE Percentile Average: 56.1

OFFENSIVE Percentile Average: 44.1

 

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

 

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

 

Here are the national rankings, without any consideration having been given to SOS:

 

Rank	Team	Overall %
1	South Florida	86.17
2	UCF	86.13
3	Alabama	85.28
4	Penn State	83.93
5	Virginia Tech	83.46
6	Wisconsin	81.24
7	Clemson	80.73
8	Oklahoma	78.74
9	UTSA	77.29
10	Minnesota	75.04
11	Duke	74.45
12	Ohio State	73.29
13	Washington	72.70
14	Auburn	72.69
15	Oregon	72.29
16	Kansas State	72.09
17	Washington State	71.42
18	Utah	71.22
19	Wake Forest	70.93
20	Oklahoma State	70.89
21	Michigan	69.85
22	Miami (Florida)	69.72
23	TCU	69.32
24	USC	68.54
25	Notre Dame	68.43
26	Michigan State	65.80
27	Arizona	65.72
28	West Virginia	65.27
29	Navy	65.00
30	Georgia	64.44
31	Louisville	63.80
32	Mississippi State	63.79
33	Texas	63.68
34	Virginia	63.56
35	North Carolina State	63.49
36	San Diego State	62.89
37	New Mexico State	62.52
38	Iowa State	62.49
39	Georgia Tech	62.01
40	LSU	60.13
41	Houston	59.73
42	Stanford	59.62
43	Miami (Ohio)	59.45
44	Texas A&M	59.11
45	Southern Mississippi	58.90
46	Texas Tech	58.89
47	Eastern Michigan	58.22
48	Northwestern	58.21
49	Purdue	57.22
50	Iowa	55.70
51	Troy	55.16
52	Syracuse	55.06
53	Colorado	54.56
54	SMU	54.48
55	Mississippi	54.37
56	Memphis	53.16
57	Ball State	52.56
58	Kentucky	52.33
59	Boise State	52.25
60	South Carolina	51.59
61	Western Kentucky	50.75
62	Northern Illinois	50.61
63	Appalachian State	50.38
64	Coastal Carolina	49.90
65	Indiana	49.78
66	UAB	49.27
67	North Carolina	48.91
68	Nebraska	48.79
69	California	48.22
70	Colorado State	47.64
71	UCLA	47.34
72	Marshall	47.18
73	Toledo	46.60
74	Hawai'i	46.57
75	Louisiana-Monroe	46.51
76	Ohio	45.82
77	New Mexico	45.81
78	Arizona State	45.61
79	North Texas	45.49
80	Florida	45.29
81	UNLV	45.27
82	Tennessee	45.17
83	Massachusetts	44.79
84	Buffalo	44.42
85	Middle Tennessee	44.18
86	Tulsa	44.07
87	Idaho	42.43
88	Rutgers	41.57
89	Central Michigan	41.40
90	Connecticut	40.94
91	Arkansas	40.57
92	Florida State	39.99
93	Utah State	39.67
94	Tulane	38.89
95	Air Force	38.15
96	Maryland	38.10
97	Illinois	37.82
98	Vanderbilt	37.61
99	Louisiana-Lafayette	37.44
100	Army	36.79
101	Western Michigan	36.74
102	Georgia State	35.80
103	Kansas	35.70
104	Cincinnati	34.05
105	Louisiana Tech	33.70
106	Arkansas State	33.38
107	Wyoming	33.24
108	Florida Atlantic	33.03
109	Baylor	30.82
110	Florida International	30.63
111	Rice	30.43
112	South Alabama	30.07
113	Boston College	28.95
114	Texas State	28.42
115	East Carolina	26.79
116	Oregon State	25.01
117	Old Dominion	24.96
118	Pittsburgh	24.82
119	Nevada	24.69
120	Bowling Green	23.16
121	Temple	22.40
122	Fresno State	21.45
123	Charlotte	20.65
124	Missouri	20.07
125	BYU	19.75
126	Georgia Southern	19.54
127	Kent State	16.71
128	Akron	15.41
129	UTEP	11.40
130	San Jose State	10.55

 

[knapplc]

There's just no excuse for those rankings in year three of a coach's tenure.  I get the injuries and I get the fact that Armstrong didn't fit Riley's system, but he's had time to get his kind of QB in for this year, build his offensive line, and get his coaches all on the same page to have these guys trained. 

 

We're as low as we are because, in three of our four games, we have been less disciplined than our opponents.  The exception is Rutgers, but that was close. 

 

Not necessarily tied to this, but not wanting to start a new thread for it:

 

 

[Mavric]

1 minute ago, knapplc said:

There's just no excuse for those rankings in year three of a coach's tenure.  I get the injuries and I get the fact that Armstrong didn't fit Riley's system, but he's had time to get his kind of QB in for this year, build his offensive line, and get his coaches all on the same page to have these guys trained. 

 

We're as low as we are because, in three of our four games, we have been less disciplined than our opponents.  The exception is Rutgers, but that was close. 

 

And the scary thing is the opponents are not going to get worse going forward.

[beorach]

Amen, gentlemen.  I was not at the game last weekend but, at one point when they were showing the crowd looking like I felt, all I could think was that these are the easy days....

[beorach]

Just for fun (?), I'm going to add some more figures to the Nebraska stats in our best and worst categories.

 

Rushing Defense Percentiles

Yards per carry: 70.2

Yards per game: 81.3

Touchdowns per game: 67.2

 

Passing Offense Percentiles

Completions per game: 49.1

Percentage: 25.1

Yards per attempt: 27.2

Touchdowns per game: 57.4

Interceptions per game: 0.8 (sadly not a typo)

Rating: 23.2 (and I'll freely admit I don't even really know what this is)

Yards per game: 45.8

 

I guess it's easy enough to share it all.

 

Passing Defense Percentiles

Completions per game: 9.6

Percentage: 19.3

Yards per attempt: 63.7

Touchdowns per game: 54.7

Interceptions per game: 74.5

Rating: 54.0

Yards per game: 36.1

 

Rushing Offense Percentiles

Yards per carry: 45.6

Touchdowns per game: 52.1

Yards per game: 42.7

 

Scoring Defense Percentiles

Touchdowns per game: 45.1

Points per game: 47.6

 

Scoring Offense Percentiles

Touchdowns per game: 56.1

Points per game: 59.1

 

Total Defense Percentiles

Yards per play: 61.0

Yards per game: 65.4

Plays per game: 63.4

 

Total Offense Percentiles

Plays per game: 65.8

Yards per play: 31.5

Yards per game: 40.8

 

Turnover Margin Percentiles:

Fumbles gained per game: 34.0

Interceptions gained per game: 74.5

Total gained per game: 58.8

Fumbles lost per game: 89.4

Interceptions lost per game: 0.8 (sort of double-counting here)

Total lost per game: 18.1

Margin per game: 33.0

 

p.s. - If I take interceptions out of the passing categories, it changes the average percentile rankings somewhat drastically.  PD and PO would both be 37.2 then.  Each category lists interceptions, of course.  I just don't want to be counting things twice as it skews the presentation.

 

[billdozer15]

2 hours ago, unlfan said:

Mike Riley is taking this program to new lows. Do not underestimate this man. He very easily could take us to 0-12 if he's allowed to really sink his teeth into this program.

Its truly amazing this guy has lasted in the coaching world as long as he has. I really cant make sense of it. If this were any other job he would be demoted to a position of less responsibility until he could prove he was better than average. Yet he has managed to be a head coach somewhere for 27 years of his 42 year career. I don't care how nice you are, the math doesn't work.

 

1) How is he a head coach given his history?

2) How in the world did he fall into the head coach position at Nebraska?

3) Does anyone have Aleve? My head hurts from trying to understand this.

[Frost Advisory]

11 hours ago, billdozer15 said:

Its truly amazing this guy has lasted in the coaching world as long as he has. I really cant make sense of it. If this were any other job he would be demoted to a position of less responsibility until he could prove he was better than average. Yet he has managed to be a head coach somewhere for 27 years of his 42 year career. I don't care how nice you are, the math doesn't work.

 

1) How is he a head coach given his history?

2) How in the world did he fall into the head coach position at Nebraska?

3) Does anyone have Aleve? My head hurts from trying to understand this.

 

Want to know what's even more unbelievable?  Riley is the highest paid public employee in the entire state of Nebraska..