Stats McGee

[Big Vol Nasty]

I've grown very impatient, therefore I had some free time tonight and decided to throw around some numbers of Cal's and Tennessee's from the 2005 season. I thought some might interest you all, or not either way here's what I have found.

2006 Starters
Tennessee's D-Line Avg Weight: 281.5
California's O-Line Avg Weight: 300

Tennessee's O-Line Avg Weight: 325.6
California's D-Line Avg Weight:291.25


These Next Numbers are Avg Defensive Rushing Rank Faced

For Example if you played Tennessee (2nd ranked Rushing D), and Alabama (9th ranked Rushing D) You'd faced on Avg. 5.5 Ranked Rushing D.

All from 2005 Stats:

Tennessee's Avg Rush D Faced: 48
California's Avg Rush D Faced: 69.4

Notes:

Cal faced three of the worse Rushing D's in the NCAA: (New Mexico St. (111), UCLA (116), and Illinois (117), and also faced Sacremento St. which I did not count in the stats. Sacremento State gave up an AVG of 144 Rush Yrds. per game, and went 2-9, they play in the Big Sky Confrence of DI-AA NCAA Football.

Tennessee faced 3 in the top 10: LSU (6), Alabama (9), and Florida (10).


These stats are just for the hell of it, you might find something in them, so enjoy.

[OrangeSquare]

Goes right along with Freak's Blog.

CAL is OVERRATED and is gonna be SPANKED.

GO VOLS!

[MrOrange]

I like that. Things just keep looking up. As if I needed more encouragment..

[OWB]

Man these last few days are going by sssslllloooowwww.

[vol_freak]

Originally Posted by OrangeSquare

Goes right along with Freak's Blog.

CAL is OVERRATED and is gonna be SPANKED.

GO VOLS!

[Big Vol Nasty]

Funny thing too, New Mexico State and Illinois are both coached by former SEC Head Coaches. Ron Zook at Illinois and Hal Mumme at New Mexico State. Hal Mumme went 0-12 last year while Zook did a littler better at 2-9. It's a small world.

Also all this talk about Cal going 8-4 last year, I'd say it's more like 7-4 with the Sacremento State game. I mean at least NC State scheduled the DI-AA Champion Appy State.

The more and more I look at Cal the more I wonder why the hell there ranked so high. = Media Hype

[MrOrange]

Exactly... they're one of these media darlings of the moment. ESPN is guilty of trying to create their own news and I think they have a hand in part of this mess. (and Charles Woodson) They try to be the fairy godmother to Cal's cinderella. BUT The clock strikes midnight in 2 days..... we'll see who's who

[Big Vol Nasty]

I went ahead and crunched the AVG OFF RANKS of each team's opponents in the 2005 season. As expected Cal has somewhat of an edge.

Keep this in mind:

TENNESSEE's PASS D= 52nd (215 yrds./game)
TENNESSEE's RUSH D= 2nd (82 yrds./game)

CAL's PASS D= 80th (119 yrds./game)
CAL's RUSH D= 24th (240 yrds./game)
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TENN AVG RUSH RANK OPP: 69.09
Top 2 Faced: Memphis (5), Georgia (43)
Bottom 2 Faced: Kentucky (102), Ole' Miss (116)

CAL AVG RUSH RANK OPP: 64.3
Top 2 Faced: USC (6), Washington St. (15)
Bottom 2 Faced: New Mexico St. (114), Stanford (110)



TENN AVG PASS RANK OPP: 54.09
Top 2: Notre Dame (4), UAB (14)
Bottom 2: Memphis (111), Kentucky (84)

CAL AVG PASS RANK OPP: 31.36
Top 2: USC (5), BYU (6) Also: Orgeon St. (10), Orgeon (8)
Bottom 2: Illinois (87), Washington (58)

[Big Vol Nasty]

With all this info I have concluded this:

On D:

Tennessee puts 8 men in the box and forces them to pass to create turnovers. No way there wide outs can out "ball" our DB's. Lots of Blitzing. Basically go balls to the wall on defence and make them beat us passing. Think Al Wilson on Doug Johnson in 98'. Same type of scheme. If Cal beats us with more yards passing than they do running I will be very surprised.

On O:

Alot of what I said about our D facing Cal's O is vaild here. Cal is going to do the same thing. Put pressure on Erik Ainge and try to get mistakes into turnovers. There going to have 8 in the box comming. What kills this? screens, think Donte' Stallworth (Michigan bowl game). Maybe, just maybe after we establish the rush and screen and Cal thinks they've sniffed it out Ainge will be smart enough to see it and audible to a bomb.

That is what will win this game, the running game, and Ainge's abilty to read the D, and audible given that he is physically up to the task. Because me personally I'm not to worried about Lynch, Chavis has been doing this a long time. Our D will be fine.


Lets just hope I'm right.

[TennTradition]

Originally Posted by Big Vol Nasty

Keep this in mind:

TENNESSEE's PASS D= 52nd (215 yrds./game)
TENNESSEE's RUSH D= 2nd (82 yrds./game)

CAL's PASS D= 80th (119 yrds./game)
CAL's RUSH D= 24th (240 yrds./game)

Either I am missing something here, or there is a mistake. It looks like TN allowed 215 yrds./game and was 52nd...and Cal allowed 119 yrds./game and was 80th?

[USAF_Vol]

This is a very informative thread. Thanks.

[VOLracerx]

for those that want to see lynch vs all the teams last year....

Click Here

With all the stats you have thrown out there I have to say that this game is at best a pickem - but then you throw in the intangibles and I get even more confused!!!

[Big Vol Nasty]

Those numbers are backwards, my mistake, it should be 119 rushing yards a game, and 240 passing a game for Cal, it was like 3:00 am when i posted that so bear with me the numbers started looking all the same.