Get OFF the field

by Peter Bean on Feb 16, 2006 1:13 PM CST in Texas Longhorns Football

Third down was not kind to Texas opponents. Or, if you prefer, Texas was not kind to its opponents on third down. Take a look at the following graph (gigantic hat tip: MGoBlog) illustrating the converstion rates for Texas opponents on third down. The bold line represents the college football average. As you can see, Texas was better than average no matter the distance to be gained.

When the offense kept getting the ball back, if they made it to third down, they had a far better than average chance to make a first down.

Crazy. Head over to MGoBlog to check out other teams' conversion rates.

--PB--

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What about 4th and 19

I have a feeling UT did pretty well resectively there too. I can't recall his name...but we had some guy who was pretty good at converting those.

by Lincoln on Feb 16, 2006 1:18 PM CST reply actions

4th and 5

Wasn't too bad for that Vince guy.

As for the defense, they were awfully tough on opponents on 4th and 2.

(This just illustrates that it may not EVER get old talking about the Rose Bowl. Seriously, with most topics, or most games, it's "enough already." Not with the Rose Bowl. Never, I'm beginning to think.)

by Peter Bean on Feb 16, 2006 1:22 PM CST reply actions