It's a bit early for these rankings to mean much, but here's where the Pack ranks nationally in several key categories after two games, courtesy NCAAsports.com:
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Again, it's early, but you can't feel good about posting three-digit numbers in 5 of 17 categories. It's not surprising, though, that 4 of those are offensive rankings given how badly we've played on that side of the ball.
Some encouraging numbers are in there, though: 16th in punting, which is often overlooked in a team's success quotient. Its an even more impressive stat given just how much punting Bradley Pierson has had to do so far through two games. We'll hope that fatigue or "punter's leg" doesn't start to become a problem if our offense doesn't improve.
State's also showing fourth, nationally, in sacks at 4.00 per game. The strong rush is yielding dividends in the turnover margin, as well, as State is tied in 25th at +1 per game.
So kudos all around to Mike Archer and the performance of the defense thus far. Hopefully with the return of Russell Wilson at QB we'll see improvement offensively and start to turn this thing around and headed in the right direction.
| TEAM RANKINGS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 119 teams ranked in Football Bowl Subdivision | |||||||
| Category | National Rank | Actual | |||||
| Rushing Offense | 109 | 78.00 | |||||
| Passing Offense | 94 | 153.50 | |||||
| Total Offense | 116 | 231.50 | |||||
| Scoring Offense | 100 | 17.00 | |||||
| Rushing Defense | 75 | 143.00 | |||||
| Pass Efficiency Defense | 50 | 108.84 | |||||
| Total Defense | 61 | 336.00 | |||||
| Scoring Defense | 86 | 29.00 | |||||
| Net Punting | 16 | 39.40 | |||||
| Punt Returns | 51 | 10.83 | |||||
| Kickoff Returns | 106 | 15.00 | |||||
| Turnover Margin | T-25 | 1.00 | |||||
| Pass Defense | 51 | 193.00 | |||||
| Passing Efficiency | 106 | 89.95 | |||||
| Sacks | 4 | 4.00 | |||||
| Tackles For Loss | 37 | 6.50 | |||||
| Sacks Allowed | T-69 | 2.00 | |||||
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Again, it's early, but you can't feel good about posting three-digit numbers in 5 of 17 categories. It's not surprising, though, that 4 of those are offensive rankings given how badly we've played on that side of the ball.
Some encouraging numbers are in there, though: 16th in punting, which is often overlooked in a team's success quotient. Its an even more impressive stat given just how much punting Bradley Pierson has had to do so far through two games. We'll hope that fatigue or "punter's leg" doesn't start to become a problem if our offense doesn't improve.
State's also showing fourth, nationally, in sacks at 4.00 per game. The strong rush is yielding dividends in the turnover margin, as well, as State is tied in 25th at +1 per game.
So kudos all around to Mike Archer and the performance of the defense thus far. Hopefully with the return of Russell Wilson at QB we'll see improvement offensively and start to turn this thing around and headed in the right direction.
View the complete entry of "Where the Pack is ranked, statistically"
