[Husker] Couple of things heading into next week....

[Andrew Smith]

I agree with Skylar - Nebraska is a better team than Texas.  But, though 
I hate to say it, Missouri appears to be a better team than Nebraska.

Nebraska's Offense vs Missouri's Defense

Rushing                 #5 (#1 in yrd/rush)   vs #23
QB Passing Efficiency  #20                    vs #15
Total                  #17                    vs #38
Red Zone               #80                    vs  #1 !!
Scoring                #10                    vs  #5 !

Missouri's Offense vs Nebraska's Defense
Rushing                #79 (~#50 in yrd/rush) vs #79
QB Passing Efficiency  #39                    vs  #2
Total                  #32                    vs #18
Red Zone               #19                    vs #82 !!
Scoring                #24                    vs #17 !

Sagarin (in his most accurate ranking system, not the one used by the 
BCS) has Nebraska at #10 (87.26) and Missouri at #5 (90.04), making the 
game (@NE) a toss-up.  If margin-of-victory is ignored (as in Sagarin's 
BCS version), Missouri is favored by 4.

Missouri's stats are better and I also think that in close games, things 
like scoring and redzone performance, and having a balanced offense is 
more indicative of the outcome.  Missouri is better than Nebraska in all 
those categories, especially in the redzone where Missouri's performance 
is impressive while Nebraska's is extremely poor.

Nebraska is going to need to bring their "A" game and fix their redzone 
woes.  On offense, they can't squander scoring opportunities (we may see 
more of Alex Henery than in previous games) or have turnovers. On 
defense, they must tighten up their rushing defense, put the pressure on 
Gabbert, and hopefully get some ints.

Go Big Red!
Andy


On 10/24/2010 12:35 AM, Skylar Dodds wrote:
> A few things that stood out to me:
>
> 1) Missouri's a very good team, next week will be our toughest game yet,
> IMO. Although OU did absolutely everything it could to give the game to MU.
> (TO's, missed FG, dumb play calls like punting with 2 minutes left and
> needing 2 scores, give up a kickoff return TD).
> 2) The defensive backfield had a tough day this week. OSU's offense is
> legit.  Give Pelini credit though, in the 2nd half they had 2 TDs, but one
> was after the game was over.
> 3) TM played really well today.  I don't want to sell him short tho, but it
> should be noted this is probably the worst pass defense in the Big XII
> 4) Receivers played better this week, still a couple drops but some nice
> catches to make up for it.
> 5) We ARE a better team than Texas and should have won last week.  It took a
> perfect storm of crap to make us lose.
>
> GO BIG RED.
>
> Skylar
>
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