BYU's Defense has forced just four 3-and-outs this year. BYU's Offense has had just five 3-and-outs.

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Oct 9, 2019
11:47:55am

SpiffCoug All-American

BYU's Defense has forced just four 3-and-outs this year. BYU's Offense has had just five 3-and-outs.

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This is the most overrated stat on CB, especially in terms of excusing the offense. I’ll buy Time of possession to a

mvtoro Scrub

10/9/19 11:12am

Notre Dame and Clemson are in the bottom 30 in time of possession

Indy Coug

10/9/19 11:21am

Forget TOP and start looking at the most underrated stat on CB (and in college football): Points per possession for and

mvtoro

10/9/19 11:23am

To a point kinda. Once again to illustrate

10/9/19 11:41am

I don’t get your example. Giving up 3 points per drive is a horrible defense. Yes if you have a horrible defense you

mvtoro

10/9/19 1:40pm

The issue though is field position. Give up drives and then field position is bad, which hurts scoring.

10/9/19 11:23am

BYU's Defense has forced just four 3-and-outs this year. BYU's Offense has had just five 3-and-outs.

SpiffCoug

10/9/19 11:47am

One of those is very acceptable. The other is not.

10/9/19 11:51am

Kalani,"i know what has to be done. I know how to fix this" Fires Grimes...

10/9/19 12:00pm

There’s a strong correlation between field position and scoring

ldssdl

10/9/19 11:48am

Fine. Like I said in OP, field position is a more important factor for helping the offense. TOP is not. Pet peeve now.

mvtoro

10/9/19 1:46pm

My interpretation is simple

I'mBatman

10/9/19 11:47am

Basics of football is physics and geometry.

10/9/19 11:51am

The BYU defense is as stupid and stubborn as the USC offense when we played them

kotacoug

10/9/19 11:53am

AMEN we got lucky ....very lucky.

10/9/19 12:01pm

Precisely

I'mBatman

10/9/19 12:15pm

Both have issues. But giving up yards and TOP is not the problem.

mvtoro

10/9/19 2:50pm

Time of Possession might be overrated, but it has its uses

reddead

10/9/19 2:50pm

These “advantages” are hugely overstated and they lead to mistaken conclusions about performance of offense v defense.

mvtoro

10/9/19 3:10pm

Number of Plays for Each Team Is More Important than Time of Possession (TOP).

Woody3715

10/9/19 3:27pm

This is a good point. I'd also argue that TOP demonstrates which team is playing

reddead

10/9/19 9:35pm

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