SEC Offensive Efficiency – Week One
September 9th, 2009 02:17 PM║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink
║ Schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
At MrSEC.com, we love geekery. We’re big on stats and we like to provide you with numbers you won’t find elsewhere.
Below, for example, are the SEC’s Offensive Efficiency ratings after Week One of the season.
Offensive efficiency — which is really more of a scoring efficiency rating – simply measures the number of yards a team must travel (on average) for each point scored.
Because some points come from defensive or special teams plays, this is a good way to gauge which teams simply have the easiest time scoring. The better the offensive efficiency, the better you can expect a team’s record to be. (As long as the team has a decent defense, of course.)
Enough talking. Here are the current rankings from the SEC’s most efficient team to its least efficient team.
| Rank |
School |
Total Off. Yds |
Total Points |
Yds/Pt |
| 1 |
Ole Miss |
349 |
45 |
7.75 |
| 2 |
Miss. State |
410 |
45 |
9.11 |
| 3 |
Florida |
624 |
62 |
10.06 |
| 4 |
LSU |
321 |
31 |
10.35 |
| 5 |
Tennessee |
657 |
63 |
10.42 |
| 6 |
Kentucky |
488 |
42 |
11.61 |
| 7 |
Arkansas |
591 |
48 |
12.31 |
| 8 |
Vanderbilt |
620 |
45 |
13.77 |
| 9 |
Alabama |
498 |
34 |
14.64 |
| 10 |
Auburn |
556 |
37 |
15.02 |
| 11 |
Georgia |
257 |
10 |
25.70 |
| 12 |
S. Carolina |
256 |
7 |
36.57 |
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