I was looking at Keller Chryst’s Stanford tenure and sort of trying to clean up the stats and see if any of it made sense. First off we hear that he was 11-2 as a starter but while he started in the Sun Bowl against UNC his injury occurred early in the second quarter leading 10-7. He never returned to the game. Likewise, he appears to have started in the win against UCLA in 2017 but was apparently replaced after only 4 pass attempts.
In 2017 Stanford appears to have had difficulty settling on a starter. It looks like he sat the game after UCLA (AZ ST) then got the job back and started and won the next 3 games. Apparently he never played after that. So I have him at 9-2 and in those 11 games his offense averaged 35.27 ppg. The 2 losses, first to USC, then the next week to SDSU, could be a case of letting USC beat you twice. Both were the first 2 road games of the 2017 season. In the games he did not “own” in my assessment The Cardinal went 6-3 and their scoring average for those 9 games dropped slightly to 32.0 ppg.
If the focus is on his record as a starter in 13 games, then in those games The Cardinal went 11-2 and averaged 36.23 ppg and in the 7 games he did not start after first winning the job in 2016, The Cardinal went 4-3 and averaged 29.29 ppg.
I’m not sure if Helton’s offense can average north of 35 ppg this year but it’s what we got used to with Debord and Dobbs, ranking #3 among SEC scoring offenses in 2015 (35.2 ppg) and #2 in 2016 (36.4 ppg).