East Carolina: Great opportunity!

[Triple B]

 

Guys we have the best defense in the conference and if our offense works as CWT intends it to be i see us winning... i got a feeling about this game and after todays upsets i think its possible here.

 

If our offense works as CWT intends it to... 

 

It's yet to happen and our total offense ranking is 121 out of 124 teams. I wouldn't be shocked by a decent game, but would be shocked by our offense working the way CWT intended it to and us putting up enough points to actually pull out a win. 

 

 

A little OT but interesting ... Those are ESPN numbers, http://espn.go.com/college-football/statistics/team/_/stat/total , based on total yards. The NCAA has us 118 but based on YPG, http://espn.go.com/college-football/statistics/team/_/stat/total . What's interesting is they have us 118 out of 125, not 124 .... ESPN included the 4 teams that are reclassifying this year, which the NCAA didn't add in, but for some reason stopped at 124 when it should be at least 128 if you add those 4 in. The ones missing from ESPN would come in as follows.

 

125. Wake Forest

126. SMU

127. EMU

128. UCF

[NCBull]

Jim Louk with a good reminder tweet:

@USFjimlouk: Last time USF and ECU met? PapaJohn's Bowl 12-23-06. Bulls won 24-7 over Skip Holtz's Pirates. @USFFootball

Edited October 7, 2014 by NCBull

[Bear]

But what if we WIN?!

 

That's a question you can ask for every game for the past 16 years

[Thebullsfan]

Hey also the last team we played that wore purple lost to us.

[Gismo]

ECU could have a bad game and drop a lot of passes or QB is off. Anything can happen. We could give them a defensive look they weren't expecting and get an interception. Mike white could have found himself in the bye week and we trade touchdowns.

I think we see improvement from USF this week, but it will take a lucky bounce our way to win.

Edited October 8, 2014 by Gismo

[charsibb]

ECU's schedule thus far has been harder but this is how the 2 teams match up:

 

ECU.......USF 

48th rushing offense.....80th rush defense 

4th pass O...............86th pass D 

4th total O..............67th total D 

9th scoring O (44 ppg)...86th scoring D (allows 29 ppg) 

17th rushing D...........92nd rush O 

42nd pass D..............115th pass O 

48th total D.............118th total O 

67th scoring D (allow 25 ppg)....111th scoring O (19 ppg) 

 

The Bulls would have to play their best game this season by far to have a chance to win. Not saying it can't happen but let's be real here. ECU's run D is not soft and ECU's run O is lethal with the top 3 RBs averaging 9.6, 8.8, & 6.9 yds per carry respectively against fairly good competition.   

 

Good info, thanks, but it's just raw data - it doesn't take into account SOS.

[FatDaddyBull]

ECU could have a bad game and drop a lot of passes or QB is off. Anything can happen. We could give them a defensive look they weren't expecting and get an interception. Mike white could have found himself in the bye week and we trade touchdowns.

I think we see improvement from USF this week, but it will take a lucky bounce our way to win.

Exactly. We do need to hope they are not playing at their best.

And we can't make mistakes.

Edited October 8, 2014 by FatDaddyBull

[CousinRicky]

 

ECU's schedule thus far has been harder but this is how the 2 teams match up:

 

ECU.......USF 

48th rushing offense.....80th rush defense 

4th pass O...............86th pass D 

4th total O..............67th total D 

9th scoring O (44 ppg)...86th scoring D (allows 29 ppg) 

17th rushing D...........92nd rush O 

42nd pass D..............115th pass O 

48th total D.............118th total O 

67th scoring D (allow 25 ppg)....111th scoring O (19 ppg) 

 

The Bulls would have to play their best game this season by far to have a chance to win. Not saying it can't happen but let's be real here. ECU's run D is not soft and ECU's run O is lethal with the top 3 RBs averaging 9.6, 8.8, & 6.9 yds per carry respectively against fairly good competition.   

 

Good info, thanks, but it's just raw data - it doesn't take into account SOS.

 

 

OK. Let's take into account that we played Western Carolina.  I feel much better now.

[charsibb]

LOL

[JupiterBull]

 

 

One other thing to explain my bullishness.  ECU is the crappiest rushing D we have played since WCU.

 

Would be even nicer if this was remotely true. ECU statistically will be the best run D we will have played. They have allowed 106 yards per game which is 17th in the country.

I watch their games. Teams don't run against ecu. . . . They fall for the okeydoke and get into a track meet.

I'll bet you $200 we rush for more than 106.

The announcer last week openly questioned why people don't run on their soft d.

 

We need to run to eat clock & keep that O off the field.  Of course, if you're down quickly, you have no choice but to throw.  Let's hope the pass attack is enough to open our ground game.  We can't afford a repeat of 19 minutes of possession, as we did at Wisconsin.  That's a recipe for a loss.