Heupel's offensive rankings through year 5

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Thought it would be interesting to see how Heupel's offense has stacked up in his first 5 years at Tennessee. The following cumulative stats are for the top 10 schools for 2021-2025 in points per game and yards per game (very small, non-impactful rounding errors may be present):

Pts per gameTotal offensive yards per game
Tennessee- 38.7Ole Miss- 495
Ohio State-38.1North Texas-476
Oregon-37.5Tennessee- 475
SMU- 36.8Oregon- 471
Georgia- 36.8USC (Trojans)- 466
Notre Dame- 36.8Ohio State- 462
Alabama- 36.1Georgia- 452
USC (Trojans)- 35.9SMU- 448
Ole Miss- 35.6Western Kentucky- 445
Memphis- 35.1Miami (Fla)- 444
 
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superdave1984 said:
I am sure there are those who want to throw out the stats against cupcake teams and only use games against top 25 teams or just SEC teams, but this is some pretty good stuff.
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You're right. Probably so, but Georgia, Alabama and Ole Miss play cupcakes too - and UT is ahead of all 3.
 
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driscokid said:
Agree. Everybody plays cupcakes and SEC is tougher than most. Let’s see if he averages 38+ next year with only 2 cupcakes. Then we will know more
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Have a feeling that everyone's offensive stats will fall do to the 9 game SEC schedule. All of us should probably recalculate our expectations!!!
 
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When they are on a roll, Heupel’s offense is truly fun to watch. Sometimes, especially this year, the offense wilted in pressure situations. We all know the obvious ones, but there were other cases like the D getting a turnover but the offense going 3 and out. It seems like we frequently have trouble manufacturing something when we have to have it. It’s the biggest thing I hope they can improve next year.
 
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#1fulmerite said:
I just don’t feel it due to all of the cupcakes. Like playing your 10 year old brother in PlayStation football.
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OOC games do indeed impact it somewhat. Excluding Texas and Oklahoma (only two years in the SEC), and excluding the SECCGs to keep all teams at 40 games played yields:

Average Points per game in SEC games only (2021-2025)
Georgia- 35.3
Alabama- 33.1
Tennessee- 32.4
Ole Miss- 30.3
Texas A&M- 28.6
LSU- 28.0
Florida- 26.1
Arkansas- 25.8
Missouri- 25.2
South Carolina- 23.9
Miss State- 22.7
Auburn- 21.4
Kentucky- 20.8
Vandy- 20.1

BTW, in the 23 SEC games that Hooker or Aguilar started, Tennessee averaged 36.7 ppg. In the 17 SEC games that Milton and Nico started, Tennessee averaged 26.5 ppg.
 
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When you think about what cjh has had to deal with on offense since he got here, that is an amazing stat. He's had no stability a quarterback since he got here. He started with Milton, who got replaced by hooker. Then the next season hooker started and got hurt and the season had to be finished by Milton. Then Nico starts for 1 year and is gone. Then we bring in JA for a year. Roll that in with the transfer portal losses and losing his offensive coordinator.
 
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xpsyclonex2002 said:
When you think about what cjh has had to deal with on offense since he got here, that is an amazing stat. He's had no stability a quarterback since he got here. He started with Milton, who got replaced by hooker. Then the next season hooker started and got hurt and the season had to be finished by Milton. Then Nico starts for 1 year and is gone. Then we bring in JA for a year. Roll that in with the transfer portal losses and losing his offensive coordinator.
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This right here! Plus all the transfers and NCAA issues. He's done an amazing job!
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
We did score 41 against Georgia. How many P4 teams scored that many points against them
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I agree 100%. Some will say, that this GA defense wasn’t nearly as good at the time, but I say any team that puts up 41 points on the defense of a Kirby Smart team has an extremely good offense! The only other team that came close was a Kiffen lead Ole Miss team, which also has a very good offense.
 
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JohnnyJava said:
Thought it would be interesting to see how Heupel's offense has stacked up in his first 5 years at Tennessee. The following cumulative stats are for the top 10 schools for 2021-2025 in points per game and yards per game (very small, non-impactful rounding errors may be present):

Pts per gameTotal offensive yards per game
Tennessee- 38.7Ole Miss- 495
Ohio State-38.1North Texas-476
Oregon-37.5Tennessee- 475
SMU- 36.8Oregon- 471
Georgia- 36.8USC (Trojans)- 466
Notre Dame- 36.8Ohio State- 462
Alabama- 36.1Georgia- 452
USC (Trojans)- 35.9SMU- 448
Ole Miss- 35.6Western Kentucky- 445
Memphis- 35.1Miami (Fla)- 444
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Now let's look at the defense 😈
 
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xpsyclonex2002 said:
When you think about what cjh has had to deal with on offense since he got here, that is an amazing stat. He's had no stability a quarterback since he got here. He started with Milton, who got replaced by hooker. Then the next season hooker started and got hurt and the season had to be finished by Milton. Then Nico starts for 1 year and is gone. Then we bring in JA for a year. Roll that in with the transfer portal losses and losing his offensive coordinator.
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100% correct, Vols fans Need to understand the above. Yes, Banks should have a better d in place and injuries happened that blew the season but, that’s been handled.
 
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superdave1984 said:
I am sure there are those who want to throw out the stats against cupcake teams and only use games against top 25 teams or just SEC teams, but this is some pretty good stuff.
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We averaged 29.3 against the playoff teams we played, and lost them all. We had more yards than Alabama 410-373, more than Oklahoma 456-345, and had 496 to Georgia's 502. We have a good enough offense to be National Champs and would have made the playoff this year if we had an average defense. BTW I personally love the way we eat cupcakes whole! GBO!!
 
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