California Offense vs USC Defense
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
The California offense (#15) won the Week 8 shootout that kind of wasn't against Oregon. 52-49 would have been pretty close to what the odds makers were predicting for regulation, but two overtimes "meh," football can be a little unpredictable. Winning is always good, but Oregon's defense is pretty terrible and Cal could have probably played better. Cal has a step up this week in quality to Power 5 average USC.
As the season keeps ticking along so Cal's offense looks less reliant on Explosive Drives and per play greatness. Cal is excellent at Drive Efficiency. The Cal offense rolls along on execution and good play calling. They are also pretty good at avoiding Negative Drives, so they don't go 3 and out very often or get tackled behind the line of scrimmage. Cal is on the sunny side of average on Play Efficiency and Explosive Drives.
Cal isn't great on 3rd down and is pretty bad at preventing D-plus Plays. Thus far the Bears have been able to get themselves out of these kinds of jams. USC is athletic enough on the outside to test the Bears high wire act.
As the season keeps ticking along so Cal's offense looks less reliant on Explosive Drives and per play greatness. Cal is excellent at Drive Efficiency. The Cal offense rolls along on execution and good play calling. They are also pretty good at avoiding Negative Drives, so they don't go 3 and out very often or get tackled behind the line of scrimmage. Cal is on the sunny side of average on Play Efficiency and Explosive Drives.
Cal isn't great on 3rd down and is pretty bad at preventing D-plus Plays. Thus far the Bears have been able to get themselves out of these kinds of jams. USC is athletic enough on the outside to test the Bears high wire act.
USC's defense (#43) won their bye week beauty contest after crushing a sputtering Arizona team on the road. Arizona's offense came with extra sputter care of of a true freshman QB on his first start; also it was a kiln on the field. USC's defense has been pretty good though and improving, but isn't an imposing force. Cal is going to be a serious step up for USC as they'll be the first of the top Pac-12 offenses the Trojans have faced.
USC is sort of a mirror image of Cal. They extremely good at corralling Explosive Drives and very good at Negative Drives and Play Efficiency. This team does a lot of things really well, but it doesn't do them consistently well.
USC isn't really great on 3rd down and D-plus Plays and they are flat terrible at Drive Efficiency. This team really needs to put it together, because they could be dangerous if they could.
USC is sort of a mirror image of Cal. They extremely good at corralling Explosive Drives and very good at Negative Drives and Play Efficiency. This team does a lot of things really well, but it doesn't do them consistently well.
USC isn't really great on 3rd down and D-plus Plays and they are flat terrible at Drive Efficiency. This team really needs to put it together, because they could be dangerous if they could.
Comments
Post a Comment