Throwing out the VMI game for obvious reasons, below is our offensive production by half through 8 games.
...............................................1st Half......................2nd Half
Score.........................................118..............................62
First Downs.................................86..............................73
Rushing Att.-Yds-Avg.........159-831-5.23.............147-700-4.76
Pass Att.-Yards-YPA...........117-1006-8.60...........113-676-5.98
Total Offense............................1839...........................1374
I know it's been touched on a few times but we've had real issues in the second half of games maintaining drives and putting teams away. Throw out the FAU game, and the numbers really get UGLY. Our rushing average goes down 10% from half to half and our passing yards per attempt plummets 30% from 1st half to 2nd half.
I hope Cramsey & Co. take a hard look at second half tendencies and self-scouting because we've got to get more consistency from half-to-half.
I felt like the 2nd half of Rice was a microcosm of our 2nd half offense all season. In that half we had eight 3rd Downs and ran the ball on 6 of the downs and went 2 for 8 on 3rd Downs:
3rd & 10.......7 yard run.............No Convert
3rd & 3.........6 yard pass...........Conversion
3rd & 1.........1 yard run..............Conversion
3rd & 4.........pass incomplete...No Convert
3rd & 14......9 yard run..............No Convert
3rd & 2........1 yard run..............No Convert
3rd & 8.........2 yard run..............No Convert
3rd & 9.........2 yard run...............No Convert
...............................................1st Half......................2nd Half
Score.........................................118..............................62
First Downs.................................86..............................73
Rushing Att.-Yds-Avg.........159-831-5.23.............147-700-4.76
Pass Att.-Yards-YPA...........117-1006-8.60...........113-676-5.98
Total Offense............................1839...........................1374
I know it's been touched on a few times but we've had real issues in the second half of games maintaining drives and putting teams away. Throw out the FAU game, and the numbers really get UGLY. Our rushing average goes down 10% from half to half and our passing yards per attempt plummets 30% from 1st half to 2nd half.
I hope Cramsey & Co. take a hard look at second half tendencies and self-scouting because we've got to get more consistency from half-to-half.
I felt like the 2nd half of Rice was a microcosm of our 2nd half offense all season. In that half we had eight 3rd Downs and ran the ball on 6 of the downs and went 2 for 8 on 3rd Downs:
3rd & 10.......7 yard run.............No Convert
3rd & 3.........6 yard pass...........Conversion
3rd & 1.........1 yard run..............Conversion
3rd & 4.........pass incomplete...No Convert
3rd & 14......9 yard run..............No Convert
3rd & 2........1 yard run..............No Convert
3rd & 8.........2 yard run..............No Convert
3rd & 9.........2 yard run...............No Convert
