beorach
Special Teams Player
Here are the percentile rankings for nine categories using all the games played between FBS teams:
Passing Offense: Purdue 54 and Nebraska 49
Passing Defense: Purdue 67 and Nebraska 32
Rushing Offense: Purdue 32 and Nebraska 31
Rushing Defense: Purdue 62 and Nebraska 51
Scoring Offense: Nebraska 42 and Purdue 31
Scoring Defense: Purdue 83 and Nebraska 35
Total Offense: effectively a tie at 43
Total Defense: Purdue 66 and Nebraska 54
Turnover Margin: Purdue 60 and Nebraska 32
It bears mentioning that Nebraska has played the 15th-toughest schedule to Purdue's 19th, per footballperspective.com.
Here are the percentile rankings for the same categories using just the games between conference teams:
Passing Offense: Nebraska 57 and Purdue 27
Passing Defense: Purdue 67 and Nebraska 54
Rushing Offense: effectively a tie at 23
Rushing Defense: Purdue 52 and Nebraska 37
Scoring Offense: Nebraska 28 and Purdue 8
Scoring Defense: Purdue 77 and Nebraska 41
Total Offense: Nebraska 35 and Purdue 21
Total Defense: Nebraska 65 and Purdue 64
Turnover Margin: Purdue 43 and Nebraska 36
The teams Nebraska has faced in the conference have put up better stats than those Purdue have faced so far this season (so we have the SOS edge here again).
If you average these numbers up, Purdue looks about fourteen percentile points better using the stats that included the out-of-conference games. If you just look at the games between teams from the same conference, though, the Boilers' numbers to date are practically equal.
To sum up, let's just look at the averages of the averages (for all the categories I'm using above - turnover margin only factors in for the "all categories" one, of course):
average percentiles for all offensive categories using all FBS games' data: NU 41 and PU 40
average percentiles for all defensive categories using all FBS games' data: PU 70 and NU 43
average percentiles for all categories using all FBS games' data: PU 55 and NU 41
average percentiles for all offensive categories using just conference games' data: NU 36 and PU 20
average percentiles for all defensive categories using just conference games' data: PU 65 and NU 49
average percentiles for all categories using just conference games' data: PU 43 and NU 42
Their defense has posted better numbers than ours either way. Our offensive numbers, though still not even average overall, are markedly better than theirs if you look at the second sample. You've got to work to be an optimist as a Cornhusker fan nowadays. I have found a reason to hope.
p.s. - They've played Michigan, Minnesota, Rutgers, and Wisconsin for their conference games. Louisville, Ohio, and Missouri were their OOC opponents.
p.p.s. - Here are the national rankings per these two methods (w/o any SOS adjustment having been made):
All FBS Games Sample
Rank
Team
overall
1
Alabama
89.99
2
Ohio State
89.43
3
Penn State
86.98
4
UCF
86.72
5
South Florida
83.76
6
Wisconsin
82.52
7
Virginia Tech
82.13
8
Georgia
81.45
9
Auburn
80.74
10
TCU
80.26
11
Clemson
78.57
12
Oklahoma State
77.44
13
Washington
75.55
14
Notre Dame
75.34
15
Oklahoma
72.89
16
Miami (Florida)
71.66
17
UTSA
70.35
18
Washington State
69.85
19
North Carolina State
69.01
20
Mississippi State
67.98
21
Stanford
66.34
22
Marshall
66.15
23
Arizona
64.28
24
Georgia Tech
64.09
25
Northern Illinois
64.03
26
Iowa State
63.90
27
Toledo
63.78
28
Michigan State
63.25
29
Southern Mississippi
63.11
30
LSU
62.78
31
Fresno State
61.31
32
Texas
60.31
33
Boise State
60.25
34
USC
59.34
35
Michigan
59.31
36
Louisville
59.13
37
Minnesota
59.10
38
Colorado State
58.75
39
Western Kentucky
58.74
40
Ohio
57.84
41
Florida Atlantic
57.59
42
Texas Tech
57.48
43
SMU
57.41
44
Arkansas State
57.19
45
Utah
57.11
46
Wake Forest
56.86
47
Houston
56.44
48
Appalachian State
56.41
49
West Virginia
56.19
50
Virginia
56.08
51
San Diego State
56.02
52
Oregon
55.89
53
Texas A&M
55.81
54
Purdue
55.42
55
New Mexico State
54.19
56
Troy
54.19
57
Massachusetts
54.12
58
Western Michigan
54.06
59
Florida
53.93
60
South Carolina
53.78
61
Northwestern
53.28
62
Memphis
53.26
63
Duke
53.17
64
Iowa
52.34
65
Navy
51.74
66
UAB
51.48
67
Miami (Ohio)
50.93
68
Eastern Michigan
50.89
69
Army
50.53
70
Kansas State
50.31
71
Syracuse
49.33
72
UCLA
48.86
73
Arizona State
48.42
74
Central Michigan
47.13
75
Utah State
46.07
76
Air Force
46.04
77
Louisiana-Monroe
45.92
78
Florida State
45.79
79
Colorado
45.55
80
Tulane
44.33
81
Georgia State
43.84
82
New Mexico
43.69
83
Boston College
42.91
84
Hawai'i
42.74
85
Kentucky
42.34
86
Indiana
42.22
87
Wyoming
42.16
88
Louisiana Tech
41.79
89
Middle Tennessee
40.92
90
Nebraska
40.91
91
Tulsa
40.90
92
Coastal Carolina
40.84
93
California
40.70
94
Buffalo
40.58
95
UNLV
40.10
96
Temple
39.82
97
Pittsburgh
39.52
98
North Texas
38.37
99
Florida International
36.18
100
Mississippi
35.07
101
South Alabama
33.32
102
Louisiana-Lafayette
33.09
103
Connecticut
32.68
104
Illinois
32.27
105
Nevada
32.17
106
Rutgers
31.79
107
Idaho
31.70
108
Missouri
31.19
109
Arkansas
29.41
110
North Carolina
29.05
111
Ball State
28.22
112
Tennessee
27.39
113
Cincinnati
27.20
114
Maryland
26.74
115
Akron
25.85
116
Baylor
24.84
117
Vanderbilt
24.50
118
Charlotte
24.24
119
Texas State
23.81
120
Bowling Green
22.88
121
East Carolina
22.84
122
Kent State
22.16
123
BYU
21.37
124
Oregon State
19.81
125
Rice
19.02
126
Old Dominion
18.30
127
Georgia Southern
17.98
128
Kansas
15.24
129
UTEP
13.58
130
San Jose State
11.57
Conference Games Only Sample
Rank
Team
overall
1
Ohio State
90.73
2
Alabama
90.10
3
Georgia
86.98
4
Fresno State
79.47
5
UCF
79.42
6
South Florida
79.33
7
Auburn
78.93
8
Toledo
78.65
9
Penn State
78.54
10
TCU
77.10
11
Marshall
74.93
12
Northern Illinois
74.41
13
Washington
73.95
14
Arkansas State
71.85
15
Wisconsin
71.41
16
Florida Atlantic
70.28
17
Clemson
69.80
18
Western Michigan
68.01
19
Oklahoma State
67.13
20
Virginia Tech
67.03
21
Ohio
66.79
22
Boise State
66.75
23
North Carolina State
65.61
24
Colorado State
64.73
25
Utah State
64.29
26
USC
64.15
27
Miami (Florida)
63.65
28
Georgia Tech
63.31
29
Washington State
62.47
30
Tulane
61.97
31
Western Kentucky
61.79
32
Iowa State
60.87
33
Southern Mississippi
60.81
34
Stanford
59.81
35
Oklahoma
59.38
36
Florida
59.34
37
Miami (Ohio)
59.25
38
Appalachian State
58.69
39
SMU
57.97
40
Michigan State
57.80
41
Arizona
56.33
42
South Carolina
56.24
43
Troy
55.88
44
UTSA
55.21
45
Arizona State
55.11
46
Texas Tech
54.45
47
Memphis
53.36
48
LSU
53.29
49
South Alabama
52.58
50
Texas
52.41
51
West Virginia
51.71
52
Central Michigan
51.71
53
San Diego State
51.57
54
Louisiana-Monroe
51.26
55
Georgia State
51.26
56
Mississippi State
50.93
57
UAB
50.43
58
Rice
50.38
59
Houston
50.07
60
Navy
50.07
61
Louisville
49.28
62
New Mexico State
49.09
63
Michigan
48.81
64
Idaho
48.74
65
Texas A&M
48.57
66
Northwestern
47.86
67
Florida State
47.84
68
Wake Forest
47.41
69
Air Force
45.58
70
Syracuse
45.54
71
UCLA
45.09
72
Nevada
44.95
73
Georgia Southern
44.78
74
Virginia
43.85
75
Wyoming
43.81
76
Temple
43.66
77
Akron
43.58
78
Eastern Michigan
43.53
79
Boston College
43.29
80
Iowa
43.06
81
UNLV
42.92
82
North Texas
42.83
83
Purdue
42.56
84
Louisiana Tech
42.43
85
Hawai'i
42.06
86
Nebraska
41.90
87
New Mexico
41.90
88
Buffalo
41.73
89
Utah
40.13
90
Minnesota
39.83
91
Tulsa
39.63
92
Oregon
39.25
93
Middle Tennessee
39.17
94
Louisiana-Lafayette
39.11
95
Florida International
39.07
96
Coastal Carolina
38.38
97
Pittsburgh
37.98
98
Duke
37.75
99
Kentucky
36.77
100
Texas State
35.98
101
Kansas State
35.86
102
Charlotte
35.62
103
California
35.52
104
Colorado
35.38
105
Connecticut
34.85
106
Kent State
34.16
107
Bowling Green
33.71
108
Illinois
33.47
109
UTEP
33.40
110
Indiana
31.27
111
Baylor
30.07
112
Mississippi
29.65
113
Rutgers
28.89
114
East Carolina
28.75
115
Cincinnati
26.48
116
Missouri
26.07
117
Maryland
25.56
118
Old Dominion
25.29
119
Oregon State
24.92
120
Tennessee
24.74
121
Arkansas
23.98
122
North Carolina
22.32
123
San Jose State
17.94
124
Ball State
17.17
125
Vanderbilt
13.52
126
Kansas
10.82
Passing Offense: Purdue 54 and Nebraska 49
Passing Defense: Purdue 67 and Nebraska 32
Rushing Offense: Purdue 32 and Nebraska 31
Rushing Defense: Purdue 62 and Nebraska 51
Scoring Offense: Nebraska 42 and Purdue 31
Scoring Defense: Purdue 83 and Nebraska 35
Total Offense: effectively a tie at 43
Total Defense: Purdue 66 and Nebraska 54
Turnover Margin: Purdue 60 and Nebraska 32
It bears mentioning that Nebraska has played the 15th-toughest schedule to Purdue's 19th, per footballperspective.com.
Here are the percentile rankings for the same categories using just the games between conference teams:
Passing Offense: Nebraska 57 and Purdue 27
Passing Defense: Purdue 67 and Nebraska 54
Rushing Offense: effectively a tie at 23
Rushing Defense: Purdue 52 and Nebraska 37
Scoring Offense: Nebraska 28 and Purdue 8
Scoring Defense: Purdue 77 and Nebraska 41
Total Offense: Nebraska 35 and Purdue 21
Total Defense: Nebraska 65 and Purdue 64
Turnover Margin: Purdue 43 and Nebraska 36
The teams Nebraska has faced in the conference have put up better stats than those Purdue have faced so far this season (so we have the SOS edge here again).
If you average these numbers up, Purdue looks about fourteen percentile points better using the stats that included the out-of-conference games. If you just look at the games between teams from the same conference, though, the Boilers' numbers to date are practically equal.
To sum up, let's just look at the averages of the averages (for all the categories I'm using above - turnover margin only factors in for the "all categories" one, of course):
average percentiles for all offensive categories using all FBS games' data: NU 41 and PU 40
average percentiles for all defensive categories using all FBS games' data: PU 70 and NU 43
average percentiles for all categories using all FBS games' data: PU 55 and NU 41
average percentiles for all offensive categories using just conference games' data: NU 36 and PU 20
average percentiles for all defensive categories using just conference games' data: PU 65 and NU 49
average percentiles for all categories using just conference games' data: PU 43 and NU 42
Their defense has posted better numbers than ours either way. Our offensive numbers, though still not even average overall, are markedly better than theirs if you look at the second sample. You've got to work to be an optimist as a Cornhusker fan nowadays. I have found a reason to hope.
p.s. - They've played Michigan, Minnesota, Rutgers, and Wisconsin for their conference games. Louisville, Ohio, and Missouri were their OOC opponents.
p.p.s. - Here are the national rankings per these two methods (w/o any SOS adjustment having been made):
All FBS Games Sample
Rank
Team
overall
1
Alabama
89.99
2
Ohio State
89.43
3
Penn State
86.98
4
UCF
86.72
5
South Florida
83.76
6
Wisconsin
82.52
7
Virginia Tech
82.13
8
Georgia
81.45
9
Auburn
80.74
10
TCU
80.26
11
Clemson
78.57
12
Oklahoma State
77.44
13
Washington
75.55
14
Notre Dame
75.34
15
Oklahoma
72.89
16
Miami (Florida)
71.66
17
UTSA
70.35
18
Washington State
69.85
19
North Carolina State
69.01
20
Mississippi State
67.98
21
Stanford
66.34
22
Marshall
66.15
23
Arizona
64.28
24
Georgia Tech
64.09
25
Northern Illinois
64.03
26
Iowa State
63.90
27
Toledo
63.78
28
Michigan State
63.25
29
Southern Mississippi
63.11
30
LSU
62.78
31
Fresno State
61.31
32
Texas
60.31
33
Boise State
60.25
34
USC
59.34
35
Michigan
59.31
36
Louisville
59.13
37
Minnesota
59.10
38
Colorado State
58.75
39
Western Kentucky
58.74
40
Ohio
57.84
41
Florida Atlantic
57.59
42
Texas Tech
57.48
43
SMU
57.41
44
Arkansas State
57.19
45
Utah
57.11
46
Wake Forest
56.86
47
Houston
56.44
48
Appalachian State
56.41
49
West Virginia
56.19
50
Virginia
56.08
51
San Diego State
56.02
52
Oregon
55.89
53
Texas A&M
55.81
54
Purdue
55.42
55
New Mexico State
54.19
56
Troy
54.19
57
Massachusetts
54.12
58
Western Michigan
54.06
59
Florida
53.93
60
South Carolina
53.78
61
Northwestern
53.28
62
Memphis
53.26
63
Duke
53.17
64
Iowa
52.34
65
Navy
51.74
66
UAB
51.48
67
Miami (Ohio)
50.93
68
Eastern Michigan
50.89
69
Army
50.53
70
Kansas State
50.31
71
Syracuse
49.33
72
UCLA
48.86
73
Arizona State
48.42
74
Central Michigan
47.13
75
Utah State
46.07
76
Air Force
46.04
77
Louisiana-Monroe
45.92
78
Florida State
45.79
79
Colorado
45.55
80
Tulane
44.33
81
Georgia State
43.84
82
New Mexico
43.69
83
Boston College
42.91
84
Hawai'i
42.74
85
Kentucky
42.34
86
Indiana
42.22
87
Wyoming
42.16
88
Louisiana Tech
41.79
89
Middle Tennessee
40.92
90
Nebraska
40.91
91
Tulsa
40.90
92
Coastal Carolina
40.84
93
California
40.70
94
Buffalo
40.58
95
UNLV
40.10
96
Temple
39.82
97
Pittsburgh
39.52
98
North Texas
38.37
99
Florida International
36.18
100
Mississippi
35.07
101
South Alabama
33.32
102
Louisiana-Lafayette
33.09
103
Connecticut
32.68
104
Illinois
32.27
105
Nevada
32.17
106
Rutgers
31.79
107
Idaho
31.70
108
Missouri
31.19
109
Arkansas
29.41
110
North Carolina
29.05
111
Ball State
28.22
112
Tennessee
27.39
113
Cincinnati
27.20
114
Maryland
26.74
115
Akron
25.85
116
Baylor
24.84
117
Vanderbilt
24.50
118
Charlotte
24.24
119
Texas State
23.81
120
Bowling Green
22.88
121
East Carolina
22.84
122
Kent State
22.16
123
BYU
21.37
124
Oregon State
19.81
125
Rice
19.02
126
Old Dominion
18.30
127
Georgia Southern
17.98
128
Kansas
15.24
129
UTEP
13.58
130
San Jose State
11.57
Conference Games Only Sample
Rank
Team
overall
1
Ohio State
90.73
2
Alabama
90.10
3
Georgia
86.98
4
Fresno State
79.47
5
UCF
79.42
6
South Florida
79.33
7
Auburn
78.93
8
Toledo
78.65
9
Penn State
78.54
10
TCU
77.10
11
Marshall
74.93
12
Northern Illinois
74.41
13
Washington
73.95
14
Arkansas State
71.85
15
Wisconsin
71.41
16
Florida Atlantic
70.28
17
Clemson
69.80
18
Western Michigan
68.01
19
Oklahoma State
67.13
20
Virginia Tech
67.03
21
Ohio
66.79
22
Boise State
66.75
23
North Carolina State
65.61
24
Colorado State
64.73
25
Utah State
64.29
26
USC
64.15
27
Miami (Florida)
63.65
28
Georgia Tech
63.31
29
Washington State
62.47
30
Tulane
61.97
31
Western Kentucky
61.79
32
Iowa State
60.87
33
Southern Mississippi
60.81
34
Stanford
59.81
35
Oklahoma
59.38
36
Florida
59.34
37
Miami (Ohio)
59.25
38
Appalachian State
58.69
39
SMU
57.97
40
Michigan State
57.80
41
Arizona
56.33
42
South Carolina
56.24
43
Troy
55.88
44
UTSA
55.21
45
Arizona State
55.11
46
Texas Tech
54.45
47
Memphis
53.36
48
LSU
53.29
49
South Alabama
52.58
50
Texas
52.41
51
West Virginia
51.71
52
Central Michigan
51.71
53
San Diego State
51.57
54
Louisiana-Monroe
51.26
55
Georgia State
51.26
56
Mississippi State
50.93
57
UAB
50.43
58
Rice
50.38
59
Houston
50.07
60
Navy
50.07
61
Louisville
49.28
62
New Mexico State
49.09
63
Michigan
48.81
64
Idaho
48.74
65
Texas A&M
48.57
66
Northwestern
47.86
67
Florida State
47.84
68
Wake Forest
47.41
69
Air Force
45.58
70
Syracuse
45.54
71
UCLA
45.09
72
Nevada
44.95
73
Georgia Southern
44.78
74
Virginia
43.85
75
Wyoming
43.81
76
Temple
43.66
77
Akron
43.58
78
Eastern Michigan
43.53
79
Boston College
43.29
80
Iowa
43.06
81
UNLV
42.92
82
North Texas
42.83
83
Purdue
42.56
84
Louisiana Tech
42.43
85
Hawai'i
42.06
86
Nebraska
41.90
87
New Mexico
41.90
88
Buffalo
41.73
89
Utah
40.13
90
Minnesota
39.83
91
Tulsa
39.63
92
Oregon
39.25
93
Middle Tennessee
39.17
94
Louisiana-Lafayette
39.11
95
Florida International
39.07
96
Coastal Carolina
38.38
97
Pittsburgh
37.98
98
Duke
37.75
99
Kentucky
36.77
100
Texas State
35.98
101
Kansas State
35.86
102
Charlotte
35.62
103
California
35.52
104
Colorado
35.38
105
Connecticut
34.85
106
Kent State
34.16
107
Bowling Green
33.71
108
Illinois
33.47
109
UTEP
33.40
110
Indiana
31.27
111
Baylor
30.07
112
Mississippi
29.65
113
Rutgers
28.89
114
East Carolina
28.75
115
Cincinnati
26.48
116
Missouri
26.07
117
Maryland
25.56
118
Old Dominion
25.29
119
Oregon State
24.92
120
Tennessee
24.74
121
Arkansas
23.98
122
North Carolina
22.32
123
San Jose State
17.94
124
Ball State
17.17
125
Vanderbilt
13.52
126
Kansas
10.82
