Vanderbilt 28, Middle Tennessee 6: Kyle Shurmur’s good enough

Vanderbilt MTSU Plays 62 57 Total Yards 368 215 Yards Per Play 5.94 3.77 Rushing Attempts* 33 21 Rushing Yards 78 81 Rushing YPP 2.36 3.86 Passing Attempts* 29 36 Passing Yards 290 134 Passing YPP 10.00 3.72 Rushing Success Rate 30.30% 28.57% Passing Success Rate 51.72% 27.78% Success Rate 40.32% 28.07% Avg. Field Position 31.8 27 PP40 5.60 1.50 Turnovers 0 1 An explainer on the Five Factors, from SB Nation’s Bill Connelly, is here. If you’re wondering why there are discrepancies between this and the official box score, for one thing, I’m counting sacks as passing attempts (where the official scorebook counts them as rushing attempts, but they’re really not.) And I also factor out kneeldowns: Vanderbilt “officially” had 367 yards of total offense but I’ve got them with 368 yards because they lost a yard in the victory formation at the end of the game. But that’s not really an attempt to gain yards, so I’m not counting it.

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