pokem
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Wyoming's offense will compete pretty well imo against Neb. Wyoming's defense however, may be in trouble.
Smith does do a lot, and without a great offensive line and certainly hasn't had any Rex Burkheads to hand the ball off to.
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Smith does do a lot, and without a great offensive line and certainly hasn't had any Rex Burkheads to hand the ball off to.
pokem
Walk-on
Pokes also played at Texas last year with the attendance over 100k, so most of their players have faced a huge crowd before.
pokem
Walk-on
I'll give you that, but the B10 wasn't exactly dominant last year either. B10 conf champ had 6 losses, teams like Iowa, Minn, Purdue, Indiana, Illinois... Penn St was 6-2 in conf. and undoubtedly had a down year.
ADS
Heisman Trophy Winner
What? Evryone was predicting PSU to have no more than 5 wins last year. They overachieved big time, and they may win another 8-9 games this year.
And three of your four wins last year came against teams that won a combined four games and those wins were by a combined 13 points including one in overtime.
Blackshirt316
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What I posted had nothing to do with comparing the Mountain West to the Big Ten.
What I posted shows that all the talk that Wyoming is a great offense and Brett Smith is a great QB isn't backed up by the production and that in reality Wyoming has a below average offense and that Brett Smith is at best an above average QB compared to other QB's nationally.
What I posted above shows the AVERAGE Points Per game given up by each opposing defense Brett Smith faced last season and how the Wyoming offense fared against those defenses. It doesn't matter what conference a team is in, any really good offense should consistently score more points than an average team would score on a given defense on their schedule, (doing something better than the average is the definition of being good after all) a Great offense should do it consistently and often by a large margin.
What the stats show is that Wyoming very rarely even achieved to match their opponents defensive average points against, let alone exceed that number -regardless of the quality of the defense they were facing.
That's what below average offenses do.
Now if you do want to do a comparison to say Nebraska's offense, here's a partial breakdown, I'll just do the top 30 defenses not the entire schedule.
Nebraska faced six top 30 defenses last year.
Michigan State gave up an average of 16.3ppg - 9th in the nation (Nebraska scored 28 points on this defense)
Wisconsin gave up an average of 19.1ppg - 17th in the nation (Nebraska scored 30 points on this defense - twice)
Penn State gave up an average of 19.2ppg - 18th in the nation (Nebraska scored 32 points on this defense)
Georgia gave up an average of 19.6ppg - 19th in the nation (Nebraska scored 31 points on this defense)
Michigan gave up an average of 19.8ppg - 20th in the nation (Nebraska scored 23 points on this defense)
Northwestern gave up an average of 22.5ppg - 29th in the nation (Nebraska scored 29 points on this defense)
Nebraska exceeded the average points per game allowed by those defenses in every single one of those six games, some by a significant amount.
So unlike Wyoming, Nebraska indeed has a great offense last year, and going deeper into the stats you'd find that if Nebraska turns the ball over less this season they could very easily move into an elite category.
But that has nothing to do with what conference either Nebraska or Wyoming play in or even much about the overall strength of the schedule each team faced. It's simply about how each offense performed as opposed to every other offense the teams they played also played against.
zoogs
Assistant Coach
If the premise is that Wyoming isn't even a good team to begin with, I don't think you'll find any disagreements. They were a 4-8 team. Nebraska clearly did have a lot going for it on offense last year, and Wyoming didn't have much going on for it, period. I mean, their entire offense ranked 72 in the nation in YPG, and the pass game ranked T-38.
But Wyoming's lackluster program and roster says little about Brett Smith's qualities as a quarterback or indeed, a pro prospect, does it not?
All the numbers really show is that Wyoming didn't have a very good team, and overall, didn't do a very good job. Smith may indeed be mediocre at best, or maybe he has some above average qualities despite playing on a poor team. I find it hard to fit too many conclusions to a simple set of numbers, though.
I'm sort of unsure what conversation I'm really jumping into, to be fair. I thought it was an evaluation on Smith, regarded by Wyoming fans as the top player on their team and a guy who could play and do well on many other teams. If the conversation is really "Are the Cowboys going to steamroll our defense" or "Do they have a better offense than us"....I'd just say, well, no, they won't and they don't.
But Wyoming's lackluster program and roster says little about Brett Smith's qualities as a quarterback or indeed, a pro prospect, does it not?
All the numbers really show is that Wyoming didn't have a very good team, and overall, didn't do a very good job. Smith may indeed be mediocre at best, or maybe he has some above average qualities despite playing on a poor team. I find it hard to fit too many conclusions to a simple set of numbers, though.
I'm sort of unsure what conversation I'm really jumping into, to be fair. I thought it was an evaluation on Smith, regarded by Wyoming fans as the top player on their team and a guy who could play and do well on many other teams. If the conversation is really "Are the Cowboys going to steamroll our defense" or "Do they have a better offense than us"....I'd just say, well, no, they won't and they don't.
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Kevin McKinney's comments on Nebraska game. He's a Senior Assistant Athletic Director and the color commentator for Wyoming football broadcasts: Kevin's Comments
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knapplc
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That's a good read by McKinney, especially about that 1994 game. I was at that game and I thought for sure we were going to lose. I have vivid memories of Cowboy receivers running free through the Husker secondary, over and over and over. We finally started putting pressure on the QB and got some good hits on him. I didn't remember that we knocked him out of the game, though.