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UGA at Georgia Tech Advanced Box Score

Taking an in-depth look at the stats from last week's game.

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Each week I will be doing my best to take a deeper look into the stats of each game. You can see all of this year's advanced box scores in the "Advanced Stats and Analysis" story stream. Curious as to what some of the definitions are? Check out Football Study Hall's Advanced Stats Glossary.

Passing Downs Quarter Performance
GT UGA Natl Average GT UGA
Num Plays 24 26 Yards Per Play Success Rate Yards Per Play Success Rate
Success Rate 46% 46% 32% Q1 10.13 (16) 44% 3.0 (15) 33%
Avg Yards 9.46 8.19 5.8 Q2 5.32 (22) 41% 8.23 (13) 62%
Standard Downs Q3 5.29 (14) 50% 7.05 (21) 52%
GT UGA Natl Average Q4 5.44 (18) 61% 4.35 (20) 35%
Num Plays 58 47 Down Performance
Success Rate 52% 49% 48% GT UGA
Avg Yards 4.62 4.77 5.62 Yards Per Play Success Rate Yards Per Play Success Rate
Passing Plays 1st 5.4 46% 5.86 51%
GT UGA Natl Average 2nd 4.83 57% 6.04 41%
Num Plays 24 41 3rd 10.53 47% 5.87 47%
Success Rate 42% 46% 41% 4th 1.50 50% 11.00 100%
Avg Yards 9.67 6.68 6.4 Drive Performance
SD/PD Sack Rate 0.0% / 0.0% 10.6% / 0.0% 1.9% / 4.5% # of Possesions Avg Start Spot Explosive Drive % Methodical Drive %
Running Plays GT 10 27.1 20% 40%
GT UGA Natl Average UGA 9 27.56 11% 22%
Num Plays 58 32 % of Possible Yards Gained GT: 62.5% UGA: 56.1%
Success Rate 53% 50% 43% Georgia Tech Hidden Yards -4.6
Avg Yards 4.53 5.09 5 Turnovers GT: 2 UGA: 1
OverTime: GT: 3.67 YPP 58.3 SR 12 plays UGA: 12.5 YPP 100% SR 4 plays

This was an incredibly well played game by both teams.

  • Georgia Tech's defense played so much better than I expected against the run. Take out the 4 huge overtime plays and our numbers look much better. Obviously, you can't just take away those plays. But I don't think anyone thought we would play that well (or at least I didn't).
  • For the first time all year our passing offense looked great. We were hitting big plays and were converting them when we need to (46% passing plays is awesome)
  • Our standard downs Sack Rate was amazing as well (thanks Jerry). You'd think that with a backup QB making his fist start we could do a little better on pass defense....
  • I mean really, we played so well, and so did UGA. Every category is incredibly even, you'd almost think they tied or something....
  • The overtime stats....they don't look so good.
Well that is the end of the Advanced Box Scores for the regular season. Any tips or suggestions for the bowl game and next year are welcomed and appreciated.