Time of possession....

[bandit218]

I did not read all the posts...

But if the Griz run 100 plays in 25:00
and the opponent runs 60 plays in 35:00

Witch D will be more tired?

When the games start ending up that way it will be the opponents. The first two games are showing that the opponents are running pretty even with #OP. 16 plays were rattled off at the end of the NDSU game. Up to that point #OP was pretty even but TOP wasn't.

 

[dupuyer griz]

I think our TOP may be heavily skewed from playing two teams that by nature are going to be heavy on the TOP end themselves with the type and style of offense that they run. Once we play some of these other Big Sky teams it will probably swing to neutral or in our favor.

 

[LongTimeCatFan]

I think our TOP may be heavily skewed from playing two teams that by nature are going to be heavy on the TOP end themselves with the type and style of offense that they run. Once we play some of these other Big Sky teams it will probably swing to neutral or in our favor.

Or not

 

[bgbigdog]

I think our TOP may be heavily skewed from playing two teams that by nature are going to be heavy on the TOP end themselves with the type and style of offense that they run. Once we play some of these other Big Sky teams it will probably swing to neutral or in our favor.

Or not

TOP is a non-issue if you're measuring Stitts "Montana" offense. It was a big deal @ Mines because they didn't have someone to run by a defender like a couple two/tree of our kids. Big plays are, witness beating NDSU and losing to CPSLO. Pace exacerbates 3&outs for defenses, which you saw Saturday. How many plays did they run in less than two minutes against the T-Buffs in that last drive? Winning TOP in this O might mean an offense that runs 150 plus plays a game. As likely as state college beating EWU in a couple of weeks. Time to put this to rest.

 

[AZGrizFan]

I did not read all the posts...

But if the Griz run 100 plays in 25:00
and the opponent runs 60 plays in 35:00

Witch D will be more tired?

When the games start ending up that way it will be the opponents. The first two games are showing that the opponents are running pretty even with #OP. 16 plays were rattled off at the end of the NDSU game. Up to that point #OP was pretty even but TOP wasn't.

I still believe that the SAME # of plays run in a significantly shorter clock time works to our advantage.

NDSU ran 21/20/18/15 = 73
MT ran 22/23/20/30 = 92 --there was a period of time in the 2nd/3rd quarter where we had consecutive drives of 5/4/2/3/3/3 plays. Interestingly, the first and last of these drives both were TD's.

CP ran 17/20/33/22 = 92 - they had drives of 17/11/10 plays, resulting in 2 FG's and a missed FG
MT ran 35/24/9/26 = 94 - we had drives of 12/12/9/8 plays, resulting in 2 TD's a FG and a missed FG. The rest of the drives, not so good.

That being said, I think the only teams we'll see come close to that #OP's this year (outside of CP) will be ISU, Eastern & possibly MSU. These are the # of plays they averaged last year.

Idaho State 83
Cal Poly 79
Eastern Wash 77
MSU 74
Sac State 74
SUU 73
PSU 73
NAU 72
Weber St 71
Montana 64
UNC 64
UND 61
UCD 60

I also would think that, as our offense works out the kinks, we'll see more frequent drives of 7,8,10 plays and make the #'s even more disparate.