Anyone who has been watching football for more than about 30 seconds should realize that if you can't keep other teams from scoring, you'll eventually lose a shoot-out. When you do, your championship hopes take a huge nose-dive. ESPN, though, found some commonalities between some of the recent BCS Title winners. Among them, a receiver averaging 15+ yards-per-catch, the team racking up 33 sacks, and a quarterback passing for 3,000 yards. Mergz at Saurian Sagacity thought, to be polite, that their method was nonsense.
Today he posted a fairly detailed analysis of team averages in statistical categories for BCS winners. The conclusion? There are only a few categories where BCS Champions share high rankings consistently. They're all defensive categories and the most pronounced among them is scoring defense.
Big shocker, there. Nevertheless, a good read. Go check it out for all the nuts and bolts.
