Comments on: Monday Musings

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:57:09 +0000

Oh, one other item. At first, I was surprised that the turnovers were interceptions and not fumbles; with the ‘short field’, I’d assumed that teams would be running the ball quite a bit. Maybe the ‘short field’ contributed to the INT’s. With the events (missed FG’s, INT’s) I probably should have noted the down & distance, but didn’t.

Interesting enough, two of the ‘go on offense first’ wins were pulled off by Ohio State (Purdue, Wisconsin). In neither game did passing help the losing team. Purdue was 0-4 passing, while Wisconsin was run (gain), incomplete, run (no gain), incomplete.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:33:04 +0000

Well, Charles, you do tend to put together topics that are interesting. I hadn’t really thought about overtime all that much until you’d mentioned it.

I agree that the number of coaches challenges could be interesting to see play out. To be honest, I think the rule change you mentioned last week about hits-above-the-shoulder is really one to keep an eye on.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:11:38 +0000

Nice job Ken, happy to see somebody was inspired by my article to do some research. The number of turnovers on the initial drive in overtime were a bit smaller than I expected and I will admit that moving the ball back in overtime won’t make a big difference. Of my proposed changes the one that would have the biggest difference is the number of coaches challenges.