Fullfillmer
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Looking at conference-only games, lots of room for improvement in these two areas:
Obviously, our lack of quality depth this year contributed heavily to both of these abysmal numbers. Still, again looking at SEC-only games, we improved YoY in a few other defensive categories:
- Opponent 3rd-down conversion rate: 52.6%, the highest rate allowed by an SEC team since 2013 (Kentucky @ 52.9%).
- Opponent red-zone TD conversion rate: 84.9%, the highest rate in the SEC since at least 2009, which is as far back as I looked. In fact, only one other SEC team has allowed over 79% during that time span (Missouri @ 81.1% in '20).
- Pass defense rating: 134.15 vs 151.84 in '20...Admittedly, it didn't "feel" like we were that much better, but that's a pretty significant jump.
- Yards per play allowed: 5.77 vs 5.83 in '20...Negligible difference but I'll take it.
- TFL per game: 6.50 vs 5.50 in '20...This was the most for us since 2016.
- Passes defended per game: 4.63 vs 3.40 in '20...Our highest number since 2015.
We lacked line backers and db's - arguably our two best Lb's went into the transfer portal and ended up at Alabama and Michigan State.