UCLA Offense vs Arizona State Defense
Rankings reflect ranking percentile for Offense or Defense vs NCAA
Chart reflect ranking percentile for Offense or Defense vs NCAA
0 is worst unit in NCAA 100 is best
0 is worst unit in NCAA 100 is best
Until Weeks 6-7 the model outputs are directional, but useful
The UCLA offense (#50) still isn't very good. Sure they put up 45 on Arizona, but Arizona isn't some sort of defensive wunderkind and Arizona's terrible special teams gave UCLA great starting field position. Arizona's offensive struggles didn't help either. So UCLA should score a lot of points given everything we knew about their drives before they even started. An average offense would have put up a lot of points against these Wildcats. UCLA needs to figure this out, and soon.
UCLA is very OK at Drive Efficiency and pretty good avoiding Negative Drives. They moved the ball pretty well against bad teams, or teams where their superior athletes can make a big difference. They are OK in containing D-plus Plays. These offense really makes you go: "meh."
UCLA is pretty bad at Play Efficiency and not that good at Explosive Drives either. They are not all that good on 3rd down. This teams struggles to put up consistently good yards per play numbers and struggles to put up the kind of big plays that can force a defense to account for more space. Arizona, a team not known for its ability to get to the QB, put plenty of pressure on Rosen in the first half in particular.
UCLA is very OK at Drive Efficiency and pretty good avoiding Negative Drives. They moved the ball pretty well against bad teams, or teams where their superior athletes can make a big difference. They are OK in containing D-plus Plays. These offense really makes you go: "meh."
UCLA is pretty bad at Play Efficiency and not that good at Explosive Drives either. They are not all that good on 3rd down. This teams struggles to put up consistently good yards per play numbers and struggles to put up the kind of big plays that can force a defense to account for more space. Arizona, a team not known for its ability to get to the QB, put plenty of pressure on Rosen in the first half in particular.
Arizona State's defense (#88) isn't good at all. This is a typical Todd Graham defense in one sense, they blitz a lot and they get burned a lot, but they are significantly worse at the other basics that ASU is usually better at. They had a tough time last week against a USC team that is actually pretty good on offense. They are going to have to clean up their mistakes because the Pac12 has a pretty strong set of offenses.
Arizona State is pretty good at creating Negative Drives and they are very good on 3rd down. ASU is connecting on their blitzes at a decent rate if you go by these stats.
Arizona State is pretty good at creating Negative Drives and they are very good on 3rd down. ASU is connecting on their blitzes at a decent rate if you go by these stats.
Arizona State is awful at Drive Efficiency, Play Efficiency, and containing Explosive Drives. ASU's blitzes don't seem to be disrupting enough drives from getting to the end zone, they are not limiting teams on their yards per play, and they are getting burned, like blitzing teams do, on Explosive Drives when the blitzes don't get home. ASU isn't great at creating D-plus Plays when you control for Strength of Schedule, again a sign they are not getting home often enough.
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