I think it has to do with all our injuries last year. Hard to crush some teams when your 2's and 3's are starting. I'm proud of them as they grew up and did a damn good job to get us another NC.
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I think it has to do with all our injuries last year. Hard to crush some teams when your 2's and 3's are starting. I'm proud of them as they grew up and did a damn good job to get us another NC.
Despite the injuries last year's team stacked up very well by the numbers with 2013.
Category 2013 2017 Average points 38.7 38.7 Average points allowed 11.3 11.6 Total yards per game 457.7 450.3 Total yards allowed per game 262.6 237.4 Yards per pass 8.3 9.0 Yards per pass allowed 5.6 5.4 Pass efficiency 165.2 163.2 Defensive pass efficiency 97.6 91.7 Rush yards per game 257.7 273.7 Rush yards allowed per game 91.3 89.5 Yards per carry 5.96 5.96 Opponents yards per carry 2.91 2.88 Average TOP 33:53 33:43 3rd down conversions 55.7% 48.7% 3rd down conversion defense 26.3% 26.7% Turnover margin +5 +19
The 2013 team, to my recollection, only had one significant injury and that was Grant Olson's ACL (which didn't happen until game 9). Imagine what last year's team could've done if you could've put back in all but 1 of these guys for the whole year: Greg Menard, Dillon Radunz, Dan Marlette, Lance Dunn, Ty Brooks
Of course 2013 will always have the edge when comparing these two teams due to the goose egg in the "L" column and the FBS win but the 2017 team was one of the best Bison teams of all time by any measure.