Winning the Field Position Battle

[Mavric]

Football Outsiders has stats for about everything. There are numbers for days but I thought this was interesting - how drastically we've improved (so far) over last season in field position. Lots of factors go into it but being quite a bit better in the takeaway and punt return departments are probably the two biggest reasons.

First rank is 2013, last rank is 2014.

Field Position Advantage (overall number): 82nd - 13th

Starting Field Position Rank: 94th - 25th

Opponent's Starting Field Position: 110th - 53rd

Difference in Starting Position Compared to Opponent: 104th - 35th

Short Field Drives (start in opponent's territory): 67th - 54th

Opponent's Short Field Drives: 115th - 17th

Long Field Drives (start inside own 20): 110th - 14th

Opponent's Long Field Drives: 107th - 110th

 

[HUSKER FREAK]

That's because Dr. Osborne said that would be a big factor in the deciding the first four!! Or maybe because we would have a better chance of winning IDK One of the two.

 

[BigRedBuster]

We also averaged 2.23 turnovers per game last year compared to 1.6 so far this year. If I remember correctly, many of the turnovers last year were in our own territory. (totally going on memory) I don't think the 10 we have had so far have been so much in our own territory.

No matter what, the above stats are a nice trend.