How we ended up ranked in statistical categories

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TechnoVol

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This really shows how we stacked up in the SEC and the entire FBS.

Patrick Brown‏@patrickbrownTFP 8m8 minutes ago
After going through the numbers, here's where Tennessee ends its season in 31 statistical categories:

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I wonder how badly Barnett and Maggitt destroyed our Oline during practices. Almost polar opposites.
 
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Defense exceeded expectations, while the offense mets or needs improvement. The pre-season threads were peppered with last years defensive performance and concerns about the young, but talented, o-line.
 
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We don't allow many redzone attempts, but when we do they score. 96.7% wow.
 
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defensively we were good; special teams was very solid; passing game was ok; penalties and sacks were outstanding; our o line play was atrocious for the most part which killed our run game and sack totals.
 
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Second in red-zone efficiency and last in red-zone defense led to some high scoring losses.
 
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landscapingvol said:
good grief people those are our redzone stats not other teams haha
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Nope. Redzone defense is 3.33% 128th in NCAA. When teams cross the 20 they score 96.7% of the time. We hold them to a field goal 2/3 of the time though so its not as bad but still pretty bad.

On the bright side we had the 8th fewest redzone attempts against.
 
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So In total a few areas improved but in total this team still suxs via sec standards..

Not a lot to crow about but the sunshine sheep will say wow look at the improvement.. St is the one area that improved to me..the def down the stretch look suspect n off is embarrassing..

Yr 3 is put up or shut up. Better beat some ranked teams n fla or ga or bama..if no wins against these three then bsia is going nowhere at tn other than 7 wins a year.
 
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122nd in sacks allowed. 103rd in total offense.

Getting to a bowl with those two stats is pretty impressive. Thankfully UT had a defense this year and was penalized least in the sec.
 
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TechnoVol said:
This really shows how we stacked up in the SEC and the entire FBS.

Patrick Brown‏@patrickbrownTFP 8m8 minutes ago
After going through the numbers, here's where Tennessee ends its season in 31 statistical categories:

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There is a huge problem with these numbers: they are meaningless as a method of comparison.

To derive meaning from stats like these there needs to be a control, or at least commonality in opponents.

Unless all 128 teams played a substantially similar schedule, what is being compared? The only stats that could potentially be compared would be those that rely less on an opponent, like penalty yards.

Looking at the SEC, or any individual conference, might be more meaningful if all OOC games were removed from the stats, boiling down the common opponents to 13 possible common options of which every team plays 8.

We might as well throw the Oakland Raiders and Beech High School on that list and see where they come out. Maybe even a Pop Warner team or two.
 
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According to Sagarin's our schedule was the nation's 7th toughest schedule. His top 10 rankings for toughest national schedules were 1. Auburn 2. Arkansas 3. LSU 4. Alabama 5. Texas A&M 6. Ole Miss 7. Vols 9. Florida.

SEC is always a hard knock life when your team is missing any of the following: talent, experience & depth. These stats are the reality of a team where FR/SO fill the depth chart. Don't get me wrong NO ONE should be happy with the OL play but if you did know it was going to be a weak area before the season began then you weren't playing attention.
 
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daj2576 said:
There is a huge problem with these numbers: they are meaningless as a method of comparison.

To derive meaning from stats like these there needs to be a control, or at least commonality in opponents.

Unless all 128 teams played a substantially similar schedule, what is being compared? The only stats that could potentially be compared would be those that rely less on an opponent, like penalty yards.

Looking at the SEC, or any individual conference, might be more meaningful if all OOC games were removed from the stats, boiling down the common opponents to 13 possible common options of which every team plays 8.

We might as well throw the Oakland Raiders and Beech High School on that list and see where they come out. Maybe even a Pop Warner team or two.
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Ranked in the SEC vs only the SEC which is closer to what you want:

Scoring O- 7th
Total O- 8th
Rushing O- 11th
Passing O- 7th
Penalties- 2nd
Sacks allowed- 14th
TFL allowed- 14th
INT's allowed- 11th
Fumbles lost- 8th
3rd down conv- 11th

Scoring D- 9th (27.1 ppg vs 30.6 ppg in '13)
Total D- 8th
Rushing D- 9th
Pass D- 4th
Sacks- 1st
TFL- 2nd
INT's- 1st (t)
Fumbles recovered- 13th
3rd down conv allowed- 6th

Punts- 4th
Returns allowed- 2nd
Punt ret- 8th
Kick ret allowed- 2nd
Kick ret- 1st


Nothing we didn't know I don't think. Some improvement on D and an OL short of being decent on O.
 
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We gave up the most sacks in the SEC, you are reading that wrong...and ranked in the 100s in the country... Yes we didn't give up that many penalties and our defense did very well
 
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I just can't for the life of me figure out what happened to our defense. There was legitimately a point in the Ole Miss game where I wondered if we were the best defense in the SEC.

Treadwell was shut down, AJ and Barnett lived in their backfield, and they couldn't move the ball. It felt like teams struggled to move the ball all season.

Then the 1st quarter of Bama happened and that was it, the defense was never the same after that.
 
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