California Golden Blogs · Nov 16, 2017
Football Advanced Stats: Big Game Edition
Cal marched down the field and kept the ball away from OSU. The defense stymied the OSU run game (on a big play basis) and kept the passing game inviable by suppressing the passing offense to a 27% success rate.
Category Offense Rk Defense Rk Category Offense Rk Defense Rk S&P+ 26.1 87 29.1 77 Points Per Game 32.4 80 32.7 67 Cal has a 52.6% chance of being a 6-6 or better team. What is interesting that Cal has a 23% chance of beating Furd and a 39% chance of beating UCLA. Yet looking at both of the team’s statistics and via the eye test the game ought to be much wider.
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