Arkansas vs. Texas A&M Advanced Stats Preview: Trench Warfare

In college football, adaptation is the name of the game.

Many a great college football innovator has been fired from several jobs, even as others win with the system he invented. The best example may be Hal Mumme, the inventor of the Air Raid offense, whose best season as a coach was a 7-5 year with Kentucky in 1999. As Mumme’s 2000 Kentucky team went 2-9, he had to watch Oklahoma win the national championship that year running his Air Raid offense. Now, every NFL team and most college teams use at least some Air Raid concepts in their own offense.

This year alone, two great innovators are on the hot seat. Rich Rodriguez revolutionized the zone-read game at West Virginia. After a spectacular…