NC State Football By The Numbers - Post UVA Edition - StateFans Nation StateFans Nation

Putting together the football statistics and rankings requires more effort than I saw on the field last Saturday against UVA so this week I will just share these tidbits and observations.

Hang Onto The Football!
These stats pretty much speak for themselves:
5 wins: 4 turnovers
4 losses: 19 turnovers

5 wins: turnover margin +8
4 losses: turnover margin -14

We’re Not Very Good At Running The Football
After back to back 200+ yard rushing efforts vs The Citadel and Miami, State has 192 rushing yards in the last 4 games combined.

And We Haven’t Been All That Great At Stopping The Run Either
State has given up over 200 yards rushing in each of our last 3 games. An opposing player has gained over 100 yards in 5 of our last 6 games.

Hang Onto The Football! Part Two
Not to sound like I’m calling out college kids, because I hate doing that, but our senior QB has fumbled the ball 10 times this year, almost half of the team’s 21 fumbles (11 of which were recovered by our opponents). Only 4 of those 21 fumbles have been by running backs.

Ranging Shots
Kicker Niklas Sade has been perfect on chip shot field goals, 4 for 4 under 30 yards. Long range he’s been pretty good too, 3 of 4 over 40 yards. Midrange between 30 and 40 yards? 0 for 3. Go figure.

Protect The QB
First 7 games: 19 sacks allowed
Last 2 games (both losses): 11 sacks allowed

The Safety Dance
State has given up a safety in 3 of our 4 losses.
State’s record when giving up a safety: 0-3
Without giving up a safety: 5-1

There are probably more observations you could pull from the numbers but that’s all last Saturday’s debacle has motivated me to do. See you next week for the post-Wake numbers.

4 Responses to NC State Football By The Numbers – Post UVA Edition

ryebread 11/08/2012 at 11:16 AM #

WV Wolf: You’re hitting on some of the key trends.

When you boil them down on offense, it all comes down to the OL and scheme to me. We can’t run block well, and just abandon the run early. That means that stationary Glennon just sits back and throws, resulting in defenses teeing off of him. Blitz, blitz, blitz and he fumbles the ball or gets a safety. I do think Glennon holds onto the ball a bit too long, which manifests itself in sacks and safeties.

At the same time, I think the hear t of the issues on offense are in the OL. It’s disappointing because that’s the one thing that I thought we’d get with TOB. We’ve just not seen that ever develop.
Primewolf 11/08/2012 at 7:43 PM #

WV, you clearly put too much effort into that little summary.

How about doing something meaningful, like predicting Bible’s play calling given the down, distance, and formation.

I think I could hit 80% accuracy without my slide rule.
adub95 11/08/2012 at 7:55 PM #

Bible’s offense is easy: Run, Run, Pass, Punt. Except when he wants Glennon to turn it over, then he goes Incomplete Pass, One Yard run, Fumble/Interception.
At least this is the pattern my 9 year old son says he sees.
mak4dpak 11/08/2012 at 10:43 PM #

Oh how close the VT/FSU game was to going either way. Had VT pulled it off, we could have been tied for second with a game left at Clemson. Wait, we lost to UVA, and why. Coaching, as in the UNX game. These coaches were agressive in the end, unlike the sorry excuse for coaches we have. It is all about the championship mentality. Something our coaches will never have.