Anybody a wee bit concerned about Flowers?

[Bull94]

4 minutes ago, Triple B said:

You can comment any time you want. I'm just saying the offense has done what it needs, in different ways, to win ball games. Saying an offense that's averaging 500yds/41pts per game looks bad is kind of ridiculous, don't ya think?

we are the 65th most efficient offense this year compared to the 13th most efficient last year according to ESPN.

It is an area of concern. It could cost us a game just like our defense eventually cost us one last year.

 

even with the improved defense this year our total team efficiency is 49th compared to 34th last year. probably has a lot to do with our 111th rated special teams.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/statistics/teamratings/_/tab/efficiency

[Triple B]

2 minutes ago, Bull94 said:

we are the 65th most efficient offense this year compared to the 13th most efficient last year according to ESPN.

It is an area of concern. It could cost us a game just like our defense eventually cost us one last year.

 

even with the improved defense this year our total team efficiency is 49th compared to 34th last year. probably has a lot to do with our 111th rated special teams.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/statistics/teamratings/_/tab/efficiency

So, it appears that efficiency ratings are this year's version of 2015's qbr ratings ..... by all means, go for it.

[Apis Bull]

1 hour ago, Bull94 said:

we started drives inside THEIR 30 yard line 6 times.

That's why we didn't have more yardage.  If we started on or about our 20 on each of those drives, we would have likely had 200 more yards of offense.

[BrassBulls12]

This offense has done what it needs to do to win games yes, but it has not performed well enough for us to be perceived has a higher group of five team than SDSU at this point. If the committee were making a list today, I believe they would rank SDSU above us and give them the bigger bowl due to the fact that we can not seem to line up and stay set until the ball is snapped. That is a basic part of this game and we look embarrassing at it. Then there's how many points we leave on the field. All of this leads to the perception of us having a bad offense even though we score in the 40's.

SJSU and SBU are much lesser talents even on our schedule and ILL played numerous Freshman who were inexperienced and it showed. Temple gave up the ball in their own end all night long.  The point to this is that even though we score in the 40's a human being can look at these games and make inference that we need some sort of outside circumstance (like bad teams, freshman or turnovers) in order for our offense to be dominant. Computers will look at the numbers and perceive us as great but humans make the final list that will decide our post season fate and perception is key.

Is it Q's fault? No, but the offense still needs to be fixed.  

[Triple B]

2 minutes ago, ajc1228 said:

If the committee were making a list today, I believe they would rank SDSU above us and give them the bigger bowl due to the fact that we can not seem to line up and stay set until the ball is snapped.

They'd rank them ahead of us because they've beaten 2 P5's, one that was ranked, not because of how we've looked.

[Bull94]

15 minutes ago, Apis Bull said:

That's why we didn't have more yardage.  If we started on or about our 20 on each of those drives, we would have likely had 200 more yards of offense.

and less points.....

[Apis Bull]

Just now, Bull94 said:

and less points.....

Maybe, maybe not

[Bull94]

4 minutes ago, Apis Bull said:

Maybe, maybe not

couldn't you say the same about yards? somehow you think worse field position translates into more yards but not less points

[lotsofbull99]

7 hours ago, Apis Bull said:

Uh, that's how these things work and we didn't just win, it was a blowout.

If the offense took advantage of all the opportunities we'd have scored 80

[BrassBulls12]

22 minutes ago, Triple B said:

They'd rank them ahead of us because they've beaten 2 P5's, one that was ranked, not because of how we've looked.

I disagree, Penny has some ESPN analysis putting him in the Heisman conversation and they predicted that he would do well against Stanford so the idea of him being really good predated the Stanford game. The Hype train is there for San Diego State and even if you replace Stanford with any of our non conference opponents, the result would be the same. Just look to last year when the committee put Ohio State over Penn State and the fact that they always press the fact that the on field look of a team matters in their decision. To this point, there hasn't really been two group of five schools with matching undefeated records, but given the precedent that the committee has put fourth in choosing their top four, Our on field look will defiantly come into play if we both finish undefeated.