SP+ rankings are baffling

HuskyClaws

Overall: 13th
Offense: 7th
Defense: 38th
Special Teams: 2nd

Next closest team with 3 losses is USC at 23.

Shout out to the special teams turnaround this year. Dramatically better. Although we're still not getting anything out of our return game.

Offense 7th? That is the highest we've been ranked in the Petersen era. I think we got a pretty big boost after putting up some very good numbers against an overvalued defense (Oregon was ranked #1 going into Saturday). Makes the Stanford performance even more head scratching.

Defense 38th. We fell off a cliff here. Worst defense in the Petersen era. Last 3 years we were 4th, 13th, and 4th.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/27888218/sp+-rankings-week-8-wild-week-leads-big-shakeups

Mad_Son

HuskyClaws said:

Overall: 13th
Offense: 7th
Defense: 38th
Special Teams: 2nd

Next closest team with 3 losses is USC at 23.

Shout out to the special teams turnaround this year. Dramatically better. Although we're still not getting anything out of our return game.

Offense 7th? That is the highest we've been ranked in the Petersen era. I think we got a pretty big boost after putting up some very good numbers against an overvalued defense (Oregon was ranked #1 going into Saturday). Makes the Stanford performance even more head scratching.

Defense 38th. We fell off a cliff here. Worst defense in the Petersen era. Last 3 years we were 4th, 13th, and 4th.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/27888218/sp+-rankings-week-8-wild-week-leads-big-shakeups

Also Sagarin has us at 18 and FPI at 14. The thing is what we know - we've been upset. We also know it's Pete's fault. This is a flawed team but most of the pieces are there. If Pete screwed his head on straight and we start simply playing our best players we are an instant national title contender.

Neighbor2972

Neither the offense or the defense completely suck, they just aren't good enough to make plays when you need them to.

Our defense has carried our offense the last few years, this year Eason is bailing out our bad offense, next year the defense will improve but our offense will suck. An endless cycle of being one piece away.

RoadDawg55

Neighbor2972 said:

Neither the offense or the defense completely suck, they just aren't good enough to make plays when you need them to.

Our defense has carried our offense the last few years, this year Eason is bailing out our bad offense, next year the defense will improve but our offense will suck. An endless cycle of being one piece away.

This. Defense will be good next year, but if Eason doesn’t come back the offense will suck. Then we basically have to wait for Huard and he actually has to be good early on. Nothing guaranteed at all.

MikeDamone

RoadDawg55 said:

Neighbor2972 said:

Neither the offense or the defense completely suck, they just aren't good enough to make plays when you need them to.

Our defense has carried our offense the last few years, this year Eason is bailing out our bad offense, next year the defense will improve but our offense will suck. An endless cycle of being one piece away.

This. Defense will be good next year, but if Eason doesn’t come back the offense will suck. Then we basically have to wait for Huard and he actually has to be good early on. Nothing guaranteed at all.

Have you seen Sirmon play? That’s what I thought.

YellowSnow

The offense is #28 nationally through 8 games vs #88 last year. 35.6 ppg thus far vs 26 ppg last year. Would have been nice to have Gaskin and Eason on the same team.

halfbrainmanmolder

YellowSnow said:

The offense is #28 nationally through 8 games vs #88 last year. 35.6 ppg thus far vs 26 ppg last year. Would have been nice to have Gaskin and Eason on the same team.

Would be nice for sure but it is way down the totem pole in terms of importance. Compared to the fucktard play call / misuse of personnel (not just WRs, even at RB position) are much bigger reason our offense is not doing better than it is now.

whatshouldicareabout

YellowSnow said:

The offense is #28 nationally through 8 games vs #88 last year. 35.6 ppg thus far vs 26 ppg last year. Would have been nice to have Gaskin and Eason on the same team.

Would've been nice with an experienced OC who could make halftime adjustments

RoadDawg55

Our offense has a lot of talent. 2nd or 3rd best OL in the conference. You can’t tell me a receiving core of Fuller, Puka, Bryant, and Otton isn’t solid. A bunch of experienced guys and youngsters provide depth.
That’s a lot of talent. 3 good RB’s. Eason is probably the best QB in the conference. We should be lighting teams up. The inconsistency and horrible games fall on coaching, which is a mess.

whlinder

HuskyClaws said:

3 losses

Only metric I need

BleachedAnusDawg

Looks like we're making a late push to get in to the S+P playoffs!

GreenRiverGatorz

This is the kind of shit you'd see from a Jim Mora team. Probably even worse. 5-3 is an abject failure. Even if we're to go on a run and finish 10-3, the season is still a massive disappointment. A QB like Eason is what typically puts a team over the top into title contention. We've completely squandered that opportunity.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

BleachedAnusDawg said:

Looks like we're making a late push to get in to the S+P playoffs!

Are you saying there’s a chance to win an offseason natty during the season?

Chincredible!

Neighbor2972

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/27940007/sp+-rankings-week-9-lsu-catch-ohio-state-alabama

Officially #1 in the nation, in special teams. Woo!

Swaye

RoadDawg55 said:

Neighbor2972 said:

Neither the offense or the defense completely suck, they just aren't good enough to make plays when you need them to.

Our defense has carried our offense the last few years, this year Eason is bailing out our bad offense, next year the defense will improve but our offense will suck. An endless cycle of being one piece away.

This. Defense will be good next year, but if Eason doesn’t come back the offense will suck. Then we basically have to wait for Huard and he actually has to be good early on. Nothing guaranteed at all.

I usually agree with you but I struggle to see where good defense is going to come from. The LBers next year will be an abortion. Unless Calvert is super uber stud or something?

dnc

The impact of making every field goal is just impossible to overstate.

If this is for real and we have two more years of it in store we knight maybe actually do something one day.

GrundleStiltzkin

Winning on Tableau >>>>>>> Winning on the Field

RoadDawg55

Swaye said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Neighbor2972 said:

Neither the offense or the defense completely suck, they just aren't good enough to make plays when you need them to.

Our defense has carried our offense the last few years, this year Eason is bailing out our bad offense, next year the defense will improve but our offense will suck. An endless cycle of being one piece away.

This. Defense will be good next year, but if Eason doesn’t come back the offense will suck. Then we basically have to wait for Huard and he actually has to be good early on. Nothing guaranteed at all.

I usually agree with you but I struggle to see where good defense is going to come from. The LBers next year will be an abortion. Unless Calvert is super uber stud or something?

They will still be at least somewhat weak at LB. everywhere else should be good. DL could even be great, especially if Levi returns.

Neighbor2972

Best 4 loss (and 3 loss) team in the country, rather easily. suck it cuougz

MikeDamone

whlinder said:

HuskyClaws said:

3 losses

Only metric I need

4

Neighbor2972

Why play the games when we have computers? This is getting ridiculous lol