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We Can’t Play College Football This Fall
We all want college football to happen this fall. But is it realistic to responsibly do it?
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Podcast: James Franklin: Dumbbell Thief
James Franklin: Dumbbell Thief, and Spring College Football? It’s now week 4 of the Quarantine Podcast and we’re straying a bit from the stats today to cover some more lighthearted news. Namely, James Franklin has been accused of dumbbell theft (1:13), and Franklin fought back with accusations that a mystery man is dominating the community…
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Podcast: Quarantine Week 3
LSU Nearly Averaged a 1st Down… on 1st Down, and Washington State Refused to Run the Ball. Like Ever. We go through our most recent article on Staturdays.com – follow along as we go through each chart here: https://staturdays.com/2020/03/29/the-best-teams-in-college-football-at-getting-first-downs/. We come to the realization that teams should probably pass more on 2nd down (11:40), be more…
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The Best Teams in College Football at Getting First Downs
Kyle looked at who the best and worst teams were at getting first downs in college football. And LSU’s stats are almost hard-to-believe.
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Podcast: The Quarantine Pod Goes on With Week 2
Passing vs. Running: How Much is Too Much? In our second episode of the quarantine, we’re discussing a new article from FootballOutsiders that discusses what the optimal amount of passing the ball is, and breaks down the efficiencies of passing, rushing, and play-action passes. You can read it yourself here: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2020/finding-optimal-passrun-ratio. It’s a very quick read,…
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Podcast: Season 3 is Here!
How Many Teams Do You Need for a 50-50 Shot at the National Championship? We are back for our 3rd season and kicking off the offseason with new episodes every week around different college football stats and analytics topics, including explaining some common college football stats, doing a college football mythbusters, and more. This week…
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Another Look at the Penn State RB Position: Success Rate, Yards Gained Distribution, and Standard Deviation
With Noah Cain out the last two weeks, we’ve seen a lot more of Journey Brown in the run game as the official RB1 — he’s handled nearly 50% of the workload in the past two games. It’s been exciting at times, given Brown’s big-play ability in both the run and the pass game. However,…
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We Need to Get Better … as Fans
You believe you’ve identified why Penn State lost. Here is why you’re wrong.
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4 The First Time
Penn State is in the top 4 under the new playoff system for the first time in program history. Keep winning and there will be more firsts to come.