Fumbles lost & Penalties

[Guest HowieP1]

Last year USM 27 USF 6, but you'd never know that from just looking at the game stats:

                                         

                                         USF       USM

FIRST DOWNS....................... 20         16

RUSHES-YARDS (NET)............ 29-98   44-155

PASSING YDS (NET)............... 288      182

Passes Att-Comp-Int............ 53-23-0 24-11-1

TOTAL OFFENSE PLAYS-YARDS 82-386 68-337

Fumble Returns-Yards........... 0-0        0-0

Punt Returns-Yards............... 7-74      5-21

Kickoff Returns-Yards............ 3-112   1-28

Interception Returns-Yards.... 1-0       0-0

Punts (Number-Avg)............. 9-39.0  9-45.4

Fumbles-Lost.................... 2-2       4-1

Penalties-Yards................ 13-129  7-54

Possession Time................... 29:17   30:43

Third-Down Conversions....... 6 of 18 6 of 16

Fourth-Down Conversions..... 0 of 0    0 of 0

Red-Zone Scores-Chances.... 2-4       1-2

Sacks By: Number-Yards....... 4-27     2-9

http://isis.fastmail.usf.edu/usf-athletics/Sports/football/2004/03mediacenter/boxscores/usmbox.pdf

If we can just stop shooting ourselves in the foot we should beat USM this year, since we will have a much improved running game.

USM seems to have a very good at pass defense this year but is not nearly as good against the run, so we now capitalize on that.

[bulldad]

doesn't that look familiar with this years team also.

[Guest HowieP1]

Yes, that's why I showed last year's game as there is an ongoing problem that needs to be corrected ASAP.