A (Semi) Statistical Recap of Nevada

Well that was ugly.

Or was it?

Sure, the Jayhawks were favored by four (!!!) touchdowns. Yet they only won by seven points. Kansas was -1 in turnover margin. And I’m not gonna lie, I was planning on spending about as much time on this recap as KU did caring about Nevada.

So while the stats don’t lie, the score? It totally does. For the second week in a row, in fact, the scoreboard tells a different story than what we see reflected in the numbers.

For the game, Kansas picked up an average of 6.6 yards per play versus Nevada’s 4.5 ypp. While KU averaged “just” 3.6 yards per rush, the Jayhawks top two backs - Devin Neal and Daniel Hishaw - combined to average 5.3 ypc. And on the other side of the…