SEC Stats: Defensive Scoring Efficiency, Week Eleven
November 16th, 2009 ║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink ║ Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
To go along with our offensive pure efficiency rankings, here’s our weekly update on each team’s defensive scoring efficiency.
As usual, we track only in-conference games to avoid skewing the numbers with stronger/weaker non-conference schedules.
To determine which defenses force opponents to work the hardest to score touchdowns, we tally up all of the defensive snaps run by each SEC squad, divide that number by the total number of rushing/passing TDs they have allowed, which gives us a simple plays-per-touchdown allowed ratio.
Below are the numbers for each SEC defense through Week Eleven.
Pure Defensive Efficiency
| Rank |
Last Week’s Rank |
School |
Total Def. Plays |
Total TDs Allowed |
Plays/TD Allowed |
| 1 |
3 |
Alabama |
462 |
6 |
77.00 |
| 2 |
2 |
Florida |
458 |
8 |
57.25 |
| 3 |
5 |
LSU |
404 |
10 |
40.40 |
| 4 |
4 |
Ole Miss |
394 |
10 |
39.40 |
| 5 |
1 |
Tennessee |
407 |
11 |
37.00 |
| 6 |
6 |
Vanderbilt |
494 |
18 |
27.44 |
| 7 |
8 |
SCarolina |
504 |
20 |
25.20 |
| 8 |
7 |
Miss St |
397 |
17 |
23.35 |
| 9 |
10 |
Georgia |
479 |
22 |
21.77 |
| 10 |
11 |
Kentucky |
386 |
18 |
21.44 |
| 11 |
9 |
Auburn |
480 |
24 |
20.00 |
| 12 |
12 |
Arkansas |
403 |
21 |
19.19 |
Observations:
* Teams have run 920 offensive plays against Alabama and Florida. Of those 920 plays, 14 have resulted in touchdowns. In other words, .015% of all offensive snaps run against the Tide and Gators end up in the end zone. The SEC Championship Game in Atlanta will BE the national championship game.
* Ole Miss continues to be the best defense in the SEC that no one talks about. Even without Greg Hardy, their defensive line dominated against Tennessee.
* In one game, Dexter McCluster and the Rebels dropped Tennessee from the best defense in the conference to the fifth-best defense in the conference.
* Vandy’s defense gets no help from its offense, but the Commodores are still in the middle of the league in pure defensive efficiency.
* In the last few weeks, Georgia has climbed from the league’s cellar all the way to 9th in defensive efficiency. Don’t get too excited, they’re still giving up a touchdown once every 21.77 snaps (about three per game).
* Arkansas’ offense is great. Their defense stinks. This weekend’s game with Mississippi State will be closer than you might expect.
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