Minnesota #15 in defensive S&P+

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By the advanced stats, Michigan is way fracking better than anyone is giving them credit for. #9 defense, #42 on offense. Guessing the difference between stats and performance comes down to their insane propensity for turnovers, and marginal special teams play.
 

Defense was #65 last year, or slightly worse than average.
 

Gopher07 said:
By the advanced stats, Michigan is way fracking better than anyone is giving them credit for. #9 defense, #42 on offense. Guessing the difference between stats and performance comes down to their insane propensity for turnovers, and marginal special teams play.
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And penalties.
 

I thought this was something to get excited about until I noticed Mich. St. at #26 and TCU at #39. Those defenses are better based on the eye test. That said, I think this defensive unit is overall better than last year's and is top 25 in the nation.
 


Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 said:
I thought this was something to get excited about until I noticed Mich. St. at #26 and TCU at #39. Those defenses are better based on the eye test. That said, I think this defensive unit is overall better than last year's and is top 25 in the nation.
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If you look at the combined rank, Michigan State is #10 in the country and TCU is #12. At least according to this statistic, it's the offense that is better for both teams by a fairly large amount. Believable for TCU, slightly less so for MSU.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ncaa
 


SEC West in the overall rankings:

#1 Alabama
#5 Texas A&M
#8 Ole Miss
#9 Mississippi State
#13 LSU
#14 Auburn
#31 Arkansas

Wow. By comparison, the SEC East:

#16 Georgia
#23 South Carolina
#28 Missouri
#45 Florida
#46 Tennessee
#67 Kentucky
#80 Vanderbilt

Amazing how lopsided the divisions have become.
 

Bill Connelly (of Football Outsiders) writes on Michigan:

http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/9/23/6832571/nebraska-football-ameer-abdullah-stats

On a per-play basis (in a system that counts turnovers simply as non-successes until drive data is factored in after seven weeks), they are good enough to rank 19th in the country, just one spot behind a team that beat them by 31 points and 11 spots ahead of a team that beat them by 16. But in ways similar to 2011 Texas A&M and 2011 Notre Dame, they're figuring out ways to make their failures count double, and it seems they (and their fans) know the failures are coming before they happen.
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