Stats from Last Year RU v. tOSU

[Knight Shift]

http://espn.go.com/college-football/boxscore?gameId=400547984
Hope the columns lined up.


Do we expect improvement in any specific area?
--Better rushing attack.
--More yards passing.

We got killed by Barrett on rushing and rushing overall--324 yards.

3 Turnovers did not help. Fumbles were on Grant Patton.

Desmon Peoples had a good game rushing. So did Goodwin.


Total Yards

• RUTG 345
• 585 OSU

Matchup

1st Downs 18 31
3rd down efficiency 3-14 5-9
4th down efficiency 1-2 2-3
Total Yards 345 585
Passing 196 261
Comp-Att 18-29 19-31
Yards per pass 5.9 8.4
Interceptions thrown 1 0
Rushing 149 324
Rushing Attempts 38 40
Yards per rush 3.9 8.1
Penalties 0-0 4-28
Turnovers 3 1
Fumbles lost 2 1
Interceptions thrown 1 0
Possession 30:50 28:09





C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT QBR
Gary Nova 17/28 192 6.9 0 1 44.7
Chris Laviano 1/1 4 4.0 0 0 100.0
TEAM 18/29 196 6.8 0 1 --

Rutgers Rushing
CAR YDS AVG TD LONG
Desmon Peoples 15 83 5.5 2 20
Justin Goodwin 11 64 5.8 0 28
Robert Martin 5 23 4.6 0 9
Gary Nova 7 -21 -3.0 0 8
TEAM 38 149 3.9 2 28



REC YDS AVG TD LONG
Leonte Carroo 5 100 20.0 0 40
Justin Goodwin 4 28 7.0 0 11
Michael Burton 2 22 11.0 0 14
Andrew Turzilli 1 17 17.0 0 17
Tyler Kroft 2 17 8.5 0 12
Janarion Grant 3 8 2.7 0 9
Andre Patton 1 4 4.0 0 4
TEAM 18 196 10.9 0 40


Ohio State Passing
C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT QBR
J.T. Barrett 19/31 261 8.4 3 0 99.1
TEAM 19/31 261 8.4 3 0 --

Ohio State Rushing
CAR YDS AVG TD LONG
J.T. Barrett 7 107 15.3 2 33
Ezekiel Elliott 12 69 5.8 1 18
Curtis Samuel 4 59 14.8 0 34
Cardale Jones 5 44 8.8 0 14
Rod Smith 4 21 5.2 1 13
Dontre Wilson 4 21 5.2 0 12
Warren Ball 1 7 7.0 0 7
TEAM 40 324 8.1 4 34

 

[RU1977]

Plus it was raining, and an away game....

 

[TheodoreGinnJr]

Turnovers, 3rd down efficiency, and yards per rush are what stand out

 

[RUforJERSEY]

Any know how many sacks RU allowed?

 

[Knight Shift]

Any know how many sacks RU allowed?

Gary Nova had 7 carries for -21 yards. I am guessing 5 or 6 sacks.

 

[Rutgers25]

The problem with OSU is that will go for it on 4th down pretty much anytime they reach mid field or better. That puts a lot of dress on our defense. Darn near impossible to stop them from getting 10 yards on 4 tries given our weak defense. We'll need a ton breaks for this game to be in doubt in the 4th qtr.

 

[sct1111]

Turnovers, 3rd down efficiency, and yards per rush are what stand out

The yards per rush is skewed because Nova was sacked a lot which brings down the average drastically. If you look at the numbers of the RB's yards per rush they are actually pretty decent and that was with Peoples being our starting RB. Considering their defense is actually not as good this year I think we will be able to run on them at least somewhat effectively.

 

[Nosoj]

Do we expect improvement in any specific area?
--Better rushing attack.
--More yards passing.

We got killed by Barrett on rushing and rushing overall--324 yards.

3 Turnovers did not help. Fumbles were on Grant Patton.

Desmon Peoples had a good game rushing. So did Goodwin.

B1G rankings relative to your questions:

Rush offense:
#1 Ohio State 242.1 yards/game
#3 Rutgers 199.2 yards/game

Rush Defense:
#6 Rutgers 126.2 yards/game
#11 Ohio state 158.7 yards/game

Pass Offense:
#5 Rutgers 249.7 yards/game
#8 Ohio State 213.4 yards/game

Pass Defense:
#1 Ohio State 143.6 yards/game
#12 Rutgers 321.2 yards/game

Pass Efficiency:
#1 Rutgers 156.0
#4 Ohio State 137.8

Pass Efficiency Defense:
#3 Ohio State 94.5
#14 Rutgers 149.5

Turnover Margin:
#8 Ohio State -1 (-0.14/game)
#12 Rutgers -4 (-0.57/game)

Both teams have a favorable match up running the ball and Rutgers may and probably will run the ball even better than they did last year. They're also going to have a hard time stopping Ohio State's running game. Looking at the stats, in my opinion it's going to be hard for Rutgers to do significantly better in the passing game than they did last year, but they should get some opportunity off play action if the run game works as well as it may. Both teams suck at protecting the football.

 

[RUforJERSEY]

The problem with OSU is that will go for it on 4th down pretty much anytime they reach mid field or better. That puts a lot of dress on our defense. Darn near impossible to stop them from getting 10 yards on 4 tries given our weak defense. We'll need a ton breaks for this game to be in doubt in the 4th qtr.

Stop them a couple of times and they won't.