Cal v. CSU: Inside The-Wait-What Am I Looking Inside Again?

by TwistNHook on Sep 26, 2008 3:07 PM PDT in Football Comment 32 comments

Numbers? Is it numbers? Am I looking inside numbers? Or is it Stegosaurus? Am I looking inside Stegosaurus?

Last time out, (i.e. read that post first) I attempted to look inside the numbers for CSU and I still have a nose bleed. Le Sigh.

Do I want to do that again? Do I want to put myself through this garbage again of sitting down, reading stuff, and then cutting and pasting it? It's so BORING. Where's that Garfield comic I was reading, that'll put me into the serious mood. Ok, it's brutally unfunny-ness has readied me for this Bataan Blog March.

And with that grim opening, let's try looking inside the numbers.

Look at this:

TEAM STATISTICS	CS	OPP
SCORING	68	83
Points Per Game	22.7	27.7
FIRST DOWNS	62	62
Rushing	25	19
Passing	34	41
Penalty	3	2
RUSHING YARDAGE	312	351
Yards gained rushing	384	411
Yards lost rushing	72	60
Rushing Attempts	95	90
Average Per Rush	3.3	3.9
Average Per Game	104.0	117.0
TDs Rushing	3	3
PASSING YARDAGE	784	799
Att-Comp-Int	105-72-3	109-72-4
Average Per Pass	7.5	7.3
Average Per Catch	10.9	11.1
Average Per Game	261.3	266.3
TDs Passing	4	6
TOTAL OFFENSE	1096	1150
Total Plays	200	199
Average Per Play	5.5	5.8
Average Per Game	365.3	383.3
KICK RETURNS: #-Yards	9-266	10-322
PUNT RETURNS: #-Yards	2-21	2-4
INT RETURNS: #-Yards	4-41	3-68
KICK RETURN AVERAGE	29.6	32.2
PUNT RETURN AVERAGE	10.5	2.0
INT RETURN AVERAGE	10.2	22.7
FUMBLES-LOST	2-0	9-3
PENALTIES-Yards	12-91	19-156
Average Per Game	30.3	52.0
PUNTS-Yards	7-286	7-287
Average Per Punt	40.9	41.0
Net punt average	34.6	38.0
TIME OF POSSESSION/Game	33:28	26:32
3RD-DOWN Conversions	22/42	22/40
3rd-Down Pct	52%	55%
4TH-DOWN Conversions	2/8	6/7
4th-Down Pct	25%	86%
SACKS BY-Yards	4-36	7-37
MISC YARDS	0	1
TOUCHDOWNS SCORED	8	10
FIELD GOALS-ATTEMPTS	4-5	4-4
ON-SIDE KICKS	0-0	0-0
RED-ZONE SCORES	8-11 73%	10-11 91%
RED-ZONE TOUCHDOWNS	4-11 36%	6-11 55%
PAT-ATTEMPTS	8-8 100%	9-9 100%
ATTENDANCE	41590	0
Games/Avg Per Game	2/20795	0/0
Neutral Site Games		1/69619

CSU has been outscored and out-offensed so far. That's mostly because they have defeated two teams (SacState and Houston) by a combined 6 points and got ravaged by Colorado. Hell, they've even been out-redzoned giving up scores 91% of the time their opponents got into the red zone.

			Tackles					Sacks		Pass Defense					Fumbles			Blkd
DEFENSIVE LEADERS		GP	Solo	Ast	Total	TFL-Yds		No-Yds		Int-Yds		BU	PD	Qbh	Rcv-Yds		FF	Kick	Saf
56	BREWER,Ricky	3	20	7	27	.		.			.	.	.	3		.	1	.	.
20	Kubiak, Klint	3	18	3	21	.		.		1	- 0	1	2	.		.	1	.	.
10	Horinek, Jeff	3	11	9	20	.		.		2	- 41	.	2	1		.	.	.	.
13	Pagnotta, Mike	3	14	6	20	2.0	- 16	1.0	- 15	1	- 0	1	2	.	2	- 0	.	.	.
11	OPPENNEER, Nick	3	11	3	14	.		.			.	.	.	.		.	.	.	.
6	Sisson, Mychal	3	10	3	13	.		.			.	.	.	.		.	1	.	.
16	Galusha, Jake	3	10	2	12	.		.			.	.	.	.	1	- 0	.	.	.
91	Hill, Tommie	3	9	1	10	4.0	- 28	3.0	- 21		.	.	.	.		.	.	.	.

Note that the team leader in Interceptions (Jeff Horinek) has 2. SydQuan had 2 alone in the WSU game alone, I think. I tried to find Cal's D stats to compare them with the people here. But I'm too stupid to figure htis out.

Note that Mike Pagnotta and Tommie Hill have pretty complete stat lines on the Defensive Side. Maybe not as many tackles as others, but they have more sacks or interceptions and pass defenses.

Mike Pagnotta via grfx.cstv.com

Tommie Hill via grfx.cstv.com

Jeff Horinek via grfx.cstv.com

Bee Tee Dubz, I love Jeff Horinek's version of Blue Steel. I can't wait for Magnum.

So, there you go. Some more general information on the CSU team and its Defense. I think I just felt part of my brain melt. Hopefully, not the funny part. If I lose that, who will screw up the DBD? HydroTech? Ha! I'd like to see that.

Ragnarok sez:

They're giving up a lot through the air on defense, not so much on the ground. Not only in terms of yards or touchdowns, but 41 passing 1st downs as opposed to only 19 on the ground. I'd expect the Rams to try and do what Maryland did, which is to limit the running game at all costs and make Riley connect with some fairly green receivers. They've only picked off 4 passes this year total, and I didn't see a whole lot of pass defense when they played Colorado, but if they can't stop us from running the ball, it could get Washington State-ugly. I'd guess they'll key on the run until (if) Riley burns them a couple times.

He also notes last year's live blog for the Cal-CSU game. And here are Hydro's post game thoughts from last year's game.

I'm excited to FINALLY have a home game tomorrow. And without the tree sitters. GO BEARS!

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First!

The post said something about numbers.

by Rishi on Sep 26, 2008 3:36 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Numhra Pradesh?

I'm no The Maharg! But I try. Oh, how I try!

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by TwistNHook on Sep 26, 2008 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

1 2 3 I can count 4 5 6!

In other words, Go Bears!

by royrules22 on Sep 26, 2008 3:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Let’s play that fun “Separated @ Birth” game like every other blog!

by zoonews on Sep 26, 2008 4:24 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

by zoonews on Sep 26, 2008 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

by zoonews on Sep 26, 2008 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Har har, keep em coming, self!

by zoonews on Sep 26, 2008 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And to think how excited I was to see “5 new comments” when I came to the page.

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by TwistNHook on Sep 26, 2008 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

by zoonews on Sep 26, 2008 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs

And to think this is time you could be spending on The Many Different Mustaches Of Karl Dorrell

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by TwistNHook on Sep 26, 2008 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rec'd!!

by OskiMonsta on Sep 26, 2008 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

by zoonews on Sep 26, 2008 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don’t get this game.

by sec119 on Sep 26, 2008 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Jeff Horinek looks exactly like supernova. Har har!

by zoonews on Sep 26, 2008 5:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You won!

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by TwistNHook on Sep 26, 2008 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yawn 9 hours of interviews today

and the cgb gives me this?

by Rocksanddirt on Sep 26, 2008 5:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Translation

We haven’t done any analysis of the game, so we decided to turn the place into LOLBears.

by BearsNecessity on Sep 26, 2008 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Avinash, there is a difference between the post and the comments. In the posts, we attempted to take, even if just a shallow, look at the numbers and stats of the CSU team. If the comments veer towards the inane, then, so be it. Its a community coming together to relax on a non-descript Friday afternoon.

But I think for the posts, we are attempting as we did with the YTT, the DBDs, and the Q+A, to bring some modicum of genuine football-related content. If you have more to add, we’d ALWAYS love to hear it.

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by TwistNHook on Sep 26, 2008 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Also, I realize that this post might be a bit light on specifics. I am no genius. However, I feel that if you combine the O and D post, it is more than sufficient. I decided to split them up, which perhaps leads to your rather negative view of things here. And Rocksanddirt’s view, too.

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by TwistNHook on Sep 26, 2008 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs