Chin Diesel
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Best defense UConn has had in years.
I was one of those fans who said at the beginning of the year, I wanted a UConn defense which was good enough for the opponents to have to use their first string players all game and actually be running their offense all 4 qtrs. Fresno, Purdue and Army most definitely did not fall in to that category. The rest of the games have been competitive.
Back in 2018 UConn had empirically one of the three worst defenses in the history of college football. PPG were a shade over 50, yards per play was over 8.5 and teams averaged over 610 yards per game. And this was with most teams starting the second half with second or third string players and just running out the clock.
2019 saw some improvements. PPG was down to 40 ppg, yards per play down to 7.0 and yards per game was about 445 yards. Again, almost every game saw teams playing second string by early second half and using the fourth quarter to run out the clock.
2020. Bye year.
2021. PPG down to 35. Yards per play at 5.8 and yards per game at 433.
Is there's year's team defense good? No. It's between below average and bad. Compared to the previous two seasons, it's been fantastic.
Offense has gotten progressively worse as defense has improved, but the regression on offense has been less than the improvement on defense. 2018's team scored about 22 ppg and was a -28 in points differential. 2019 scored about 20 ppg and was a -21 in point differential. This year's team is down to 16.6 ppg and is a -19 points differential.
Not sure what any of this means. Just noticed on the UConn football page you could select stats for the 2018-2021 seasons rather easily.
I was one of those fans who said at the beginning of the year, I wanted a UConn defense which was good enough for the opponents to have to use their first string players all game and actually be running their offense all 4 qtrs. Fresno, Purdue and Army most definitely did not fall in to that category. The rest of the games have been competitive.
Back in 2018 UConn had empirically one of the three worst defenses in the history of college football. PPG were a shade over 50, yards per play was over 8.5 and teams averaged over 610 yards per game. And this was with most teams starting the second half with second or third string players and just running out the clock.
2019 saw some improvements. PPG was down to 40 ppg, yards per play down to 7.0 and yards per game was about 445 yards. Again, almost every game saw teams playing second string by early second half and using the fourth quarter to run out the clock.
2020. Bye year.
2021. PPG down to 35. Yards per play at 5.8 and yards per game at 433.
Is there's year's team defense good? No. It's between below average and bad. Compared to the previous two seasons, it's been fantastic.
Offense has gotten progressively worse as defense has improved, but the regression on offense has been less than the improvement on defense. 2018's team scored about 22 ppg and was a -28 in points differential. 2019 scored about 20 ppg and was a -21 in point differential. This year's team is down to 16.6 ppg and is a -19 points differential.
Not sure what any of this means. Just noticed on the UConn football page you could select stats for the 2018-2021 seasons rather easily.
