MoragaBear said:
Cal89 said:
Our running game has been poor in the JW era. Even late JT it was top half of FBS, often top 25-30% in yards per carry...
It fell-off in 2013 and became rather average the last three SD years (54th - 86th in FBS).
The years so far under JW, yards/carry:
2017 = 3.62 (108th)
2018 = 4.2 (78th - running QBs likely the reason)
2019 = 3.59 (113th)
With Musgrave's multiple TE sets, if we do indeed see that here, it would be nice to see us back above 4 yards a carry again...
Cal gave up some of the most sacks in the country, especially when they had so many OL out. That dramatically impacted the ypc numbers, as did the patchwork OL on the RB numbers during those games.
Right you are MB. Now that I look back, the past three years, 114th, 107th and 124th in sacks allowed. Damn.
calumnus, individually, guys did pretty well, as you noted. When looking at such individual numbers from an FBS perspective, it's not all that good though...
Cal rushers in the top 100 in FBS (yds/carry with at least 4 rushes a game average):
2013 - Cal had one guy in the top 100 (57th)
2014 - None
2015 - Two guys (22nd and 100th)
2016 - None
2017 - One (67th)
2018 - None
2019 - None
More importantly, as noted earlier, the team's ground production as a whole has been subpar (under SD) to quite poor lately (JW).
There upside potential is there for sure...
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