Alabama averages 49 ppg on offense and gives up 18 ppg on defense. Average margin of victory - 31 ppg. Clemson 46 ppg - 18 ppg, differance of 28. OSU 47 ppg - 23 ppg, differance of 24. Notre Dame 38 ppg - 17 ppg, differance of 21. Florida 42 ppg - 25 ppg, differance of 17. If this Notre Dame defense had any of the other teams offenses they'd be playing for the National Championship. They earned the win over Clemson. Played their butts off. But now the have to do it again with a banged up O-line and Clemson has most of their guys back. They not only want to win but will be out to prove the first game was a fluke. Hopefully the defense & Book keep carrying the load.
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I remember a guy who was successfulat picking winners used a form of your statistic but would also correlate it into the % increase from your points allowed
For example 28ppg and giving up 14ppg wasn't as good as averaging 21 ppg and giving up 10 ppg even though the gap was greater. Anything over 1.00 was a really good team
He could predict super bowl and playoff winners with simple math especially late in the year
Using these numbers
Alabama would be 31 divided by 18. 1.72
Clemson. 28 divided by 18. 1.55
Notre Dame. 21 divided by 17 1.23
Ohio state. 24 divided by 23 1.04
Essentially he would then come up with a pick It looks like there is a gap from Each team especially Bama and Ohio State
As you can see, Alabama is in a league of their own. Clemson and ND are very similar but Clemson edges ND in both defensive points allowed and offensive points gained.
ND has been hurt by red zone efficiency. If ND was better in the red zone I think their numbers would actually be better than Clemson’s but still short of Alabama.
What stats can’t tell us is how teams will react if ND’s “ball control” offense moves the ball and scores in the red zone? Does limited possessions for Alabama/Clemson mess with their rhythm? Give ND’s defense enough juice to make a few key stops?
Link: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ncaa/fei/overalloff/2020
Would be interesting to also rank these teams strength of schedule, with these stats.
minimum for the CFP.
We have played a pretty weak schedule except for Clemson and perhaps North Carolina; Clemson similar fairly weak schedule. OSU has hardly played any games.
Alabama and Florida are likely stronger schedules.
Clemson will be out for revenge with a fully loaded team; we are banged up on OL.
Great to be in a position to play for ACC Championship, enter the CFP and potentially play three consecutive games against Top 4 caliber teams. Once in a lifetime experience.
Go 3-0 and we are undisputed champs with four wins against Top 4 opponents. Has that ever been done before? Likely not.
However, there is nothing like having a shot for the national title which ND does with its offense able to play the running game or the explosive game, and a defense that always seems to adjust properly. Ohio State and Alabama IMO are the two best teams with Clemson close and ND with a chance against all of them.
I said they play a tougher schedule
It would be interesting to see what Florida's offense would do against us....then again they said that about North Carolina as well
Not sure Ohio State deserves to be considered having played only 5 games......must be nice
It is sort of like votes from the dead or multiples from Democrats. Maybe it was this. The Democrats are often mentally disturbed and maybe they have multiple personalities and they gave them extra votes base on their personalities.