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Iowa Hawkeyes among a six-pack of random college football facts
It has been a wild begin to the 2022 faculty soccer season, and we’re already on the halfway mark of the common season.
Within the Large Ten, the discuss has surrounded the highest defensive models and a clumsy offensive unit, sorry Brian Ferentz. The West division continues to be vast open with Illinois and Purdue at the moment main the best way. The East appears to be like like a two-horse race between Ohio State and Michigan.
Whereas there’s loads of time to type all of it out, we glance again on the first half of the season with a six-pack of random stats. Which offenses are dominating on third down, who performs elite protection, and which coach gambles essentially the most?
Northwestern working again shines, sort of
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Northwestern working again Evan Hull has extra receiving yards (405) than Ohio State‘s Jaxon Smith-Njigba and LSU‘s Kayshon Boutte have mixed (294). Sure, Smith-Njigba has been coping with an harm and Boutte bought off to an extremely gradual begin, it’s wonderful that the Wildcat working again has extra yards. I doubt that would be the case for much longer.
Elite defenses stay within the Large Ten
Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports activities
By way of the primary half of the season, three Large Ten defensive models are the perfect in faculty soccer in relation to yards per play allowed.
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Illinois Preventing Illini: 3.78
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Iowa Hawkeyes: 3.83
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Michigan Wolverines: 4.03
Minnesota is the perfect on third down
Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports activities
There isn’t any higher staff at changing third downs or stopping opponents on third down than the Minnesota Golden Gophers. The offense converts 66.2% of makes an attempt and the protection permits simply 21.9% of conversions.
The not-so-great stat for Iowa
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Quite a bit has been made about Brian Ferentz as of late, and for good motive. The surprising stat is that the Iowa Hawkeyes are the one staff in FBS with no fourth down conversion. They’re 0-3.
Nobody gambles like Joey McGuire
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First-year head coach Joey McGuire has proven that he’ll roll the cube. A lot in order that he leads all Energy 5 groups with 25 makes an attempt by six video games. Texas Tech additionally leads the Energy 5 with 14 conversions (56%). Fortune favors the daring.
Stetson Bennett is doing extra with much less
Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports activities
Final season Stetson Bennett helped lead the Georgia Bulldogs to their first nationwide championship in 40 years. This season he’s among the many high 10 passers in faculty soccer, nonetheless, Bennett is the one one among the many high that’s doing so on lower than 33 makes an attempt per recreation.
Story initially appeared on Hawkeyes Wire