Re: Clemson defensive stats...

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Here's a bigger list of our defensive stats

Oct 26, 2014, 5:51 PM

Scoring Defense: 11th
Total Defense: 3rd
Rush Defense: 11th
Opponents Yards per Rush: 8th
Pass Defense: 7th
Opponents Yards per Pass: 10th
Opponents Completion %: 10th
Opponents Passing Efficiency: 12th
Opponents Yards per play: 3rd
Tackles for Loss: 1st
Total Yards lost due to TFL: 1st
Sacks: 3rd
Total Yards lost due to Sacks: 1st
Opponents 3rd down conversion %: 1st
Opponents Total 3rd down conversions per game: 2nd
Opponents Red Zone Scoring %: 6th
Opponents Red Zone Attempts: 2nd
Opponents Red Zone Conversions: 1st
Opponents First Downs: 3rd
Opponents Fumbles: 13th
10+ yard plays allowed: 9th
20+ yard plays allowed: 18th
10+ yard passing plays allowed: 7th

Looking at all of those high national rankings, and its clear that this is one of the best defenses in college football over the past few years. It's rare that a defense is ranked among the best in the nation in nearly every category. The only statistics I didn't include were fumbles recovered and interceptions.

It really makes you wish we could omit that 4th quarter down in Athens. That one quarter of football is keeping our defense from being ranked even higher. Since the end of the Georgia game we are 4th in scoring defense, 1st in total defense, and 2nd in run defense. We have only allowed 2.0 yards per carry since the Georgia game. It's been an incredible stretch. We've have been stellar the entire time since that first game except for some bad pass defense in the 2nd half against UNC. If only we could somehow erase the 4th quarters of the UGA and UNC games, our defense's numbers would be at historic levels in the offensive era of the last 25 years.

We are also 4th in the nation in penalties per game.

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Going into last nights game we were actually 5th in turnovers, 7th in fumbles, and 21st in interceptions thrown.

Even after the terrible performance of the offense over the past 3 games and during the 2nd half against Georgia, we are still ranked in the top half of all teams in total offense at 53rd. We are still 23rd in passing offense to go with our 94th ranked rush offense.

I'm not trying to sugarcoat the dismal performance of the offense over the past 3 weeks. Instead, I wanted to show that despite the past 3 games, there is still hope considering where our offense was with Deshaun Watson. As long as his hand heals and he returns to form, we will just fine after hopefully only one more game of stagnant offense.

Clemson defensive stats...