USF Football 2022 season comparison to 2021. (We actually have improved)

[Gatorbull325]

This season has been rough, but I wanted to look at some of our numbers to see where we stand as a team right now compared to last year. Believe it or not, there is a lot of improvement from last year. Unfortunately, a rough schedule and a few missed opportunities have hurt us. We have 6 games left in this season. I’m hoping these improvements I highlighted will lead to finishing this season in a bowl game or at least with 4-5 wins. It’s kind of crazy thinking that we could have been 3-2 right now.

Remaining Games:

1.       TULANE 

2.       HOUSTON

3.       TEMPLE

4.       SMU

5.       Tulsa

6.       Micky Mouse University

Notes:

1.       Offensive line - Cincy leads the nation in sacks, and we heldthem to ZERO sacks for the game. This was w/o Donovan Jennings. I shall say it again, Demontrey Jacobs and at least 2 other offensive linemen will be in the NFL next year.  We held Howard, UF and Cinci to 0 sacks. BYU & ECU only had 1. 

2.       Defense – We are on pace to TRIPLE our output from last year, which is not much, but it’s still improvement. Like I’ve been saying, we need to limit big plays & improve our 3^rd down defense and we will be ok.

3.       Offense – We are on track for a slight improvement at this point. If we have another game like Louisville, then we might actually have worse stats when it is all said and done.

Defense:

·         (2021) – In 12 games we had 9 Sacks, 49 TFLs, 10 INTs, 6 fumble recoveries for the entire season.

·         (2022) - 6 games: 9 Sacks, 39 TFLs, 6 INTs, and 4 fumble recoveries

Offense:

1.       Scoring –

a.       (2021) - 12 games: 278pts total @ 23Pts per game

b.       (2022) – 6 games/146 total @ 24pts per game

 

2.       Passing –

a.       (2021) - 12 games: 1909, 6tds, 12 INTs. (In 11 games Timmy had 5tds and 7 ints and threw for 1888 for the year.)

b.       (2022) – 6 games: 1009yds, 5TDs & 6 INTs. (Gerry has 5tds & 6INTS & 961 passing yds)

 

3.       Rushing -

a.       (2021) - In 12 games we had 2262yds @ 3.9 yds per carry and 25 rushing TDs

b.       (2022) – 6 games: 1199yds @ 5.1 yds per carry and 13 rushing TDs

 

4.       Offensive Line:

a.       (2021) - In 12 games we gave up 24 sacks & 74 TFLs for a lost of 311yds

b.       (2022) – 6 games: 5 sacks & 31 TFLs.

Edited October 10, 2022 by Gatorbull325

[Grateful Dad]

Cool.  Thanks for putting that all together.  Despite the L, I really enjoyed watching the Cincy game.

[bulloni]

The morale victory games are certainly better, but still wildly inconsistent. Actually felt like we could beat Cincy and UF. Last year people we're excited after Houston, BYU, and Cincy but it never really felt like we could win it in the 4th quarter.

We have come out flat in games with flat atmospheres. The only 2 sellout games are the ones where we looked good. Wouldn't be out of the question for a packed house to really motivate the players, not an excuse but certainly pumps up the adrenaline. 

[Gatorbull325]

2 minutes ago, Grateful Dad said:

Cool.  Thanks for putting that all together.  Despite the L, I really enjoyed watching the Cincy game.

I can't lie, the Cincinnati game is probably the best feeling i've had emotionally after a USF game in like 3 years. That was hands down our most complete game since CJS has been here.

[Rocky Style]

It's fun to go to the data and check out the comparison.

[TromBull12]

Thank you for this. I'm glad the eye test has some facts to back it up. I feel bad about losing, but last year I honestly couldn't watch most games all the way through. This year,  I'm always hopeful that SOMETHING positive will happen. 

[Gatorbull325]

More interesting facts -

1. Cincy had 11 sacks against Tulsa and 0 against us. On another note, if Tulsa allowed 11 sacks in one game, is there a weak point we can exploit?
2. Cincy's rush defense is ranked 44th and they are holding teams to 126 yds per game. We ran on them for 224.
3. Their offense averages 38.2 points a game and we held them to 28pts...of course the offense helped. 

 

[Rocky Style]

3 minutes ago, Gatorbull325 said:

we held them to 28pts...of course the offense helped. 

Yeah I think the offense helping is the key to all things this season.  

[Outlaw]

Small progress  that has yielded  zero gains on the field in the win column. Hopefully that changes. We looked competitive in 2/6 games this year. Howard We didn't straight strong and had to go athlete versus athlete running game to pull away. We have zero fbs wins this season. We got blown out by bad teams lole ecu and Louisville. The only way we will know if we made any real progress is this week versus Tulane. If we can turn a corner and win. If we look like we did versus ecu and Louisville  then we hade no progress. Hopefully we go  on a win streak for the first time under Scott in fbs football and we can qll finally scream "were going streaking."

[Friscobull]

3 hours ago, Gatorbull325 said:

I can't lie, the Cincinnati game is probably the best feeling i've had emotionally after a USF game in like 3 years. That was hands down our most complete game since CJS has been here.

Best feeling in 3 years and it was from a loss, that statement alone shows how freakin pathetic this team has been.  In all honesty, the Cincy game was fun but did any of you actually believe we were going to win the game?  When we lost it was not that bad because you knew we were not going to win, we lose games and that is what we do.