Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Statistically Speaking - Stanford | by Pat

Freshman on Parade. 18 different freshman played against Stanford, the most all season and one of the largest number of freshman in a single game in recent memory. So which freshman are seeing the most action? Here's the breakdown on number of games played so far.

6 games: Sergio Brown, Richard Jackson, Raeshon McNeil, Darrin Walls, George West, Will Yeatman, Sam Young
5 games: Munir Prince, Morrice Richardson, John Ryan
4 games: Toryan Smith
3 games: Eric Olsen, Robby Parris,
2 games: Ryan Burkhart, Jashaad Gaines, Konrad Reuland
1 game: James Aldridge, Matt Carufel, Nate Whitaker
0 games: Zach Frazer, Barry Gallup, Leonard Gordon, Demetrius Jones, Paddy Mullen, Luke Schmidt, Chris Stewart, Kallen Wade, Bartley Webb, Dan Wenger

Blitzkrieg? I slacked off a bit on the blitz tally from the past few games, so let's catch up on the last three games.

Michigan State
Down
# of blitzes# of chancesPercentage
1st
73023%
2nd
62425%
3rd
31520%
Total166923%

Purdue
Down
# of blitzes# of chancesPercentage
1st
63219%
2nd
62030%
3rd
31030%
Total156224%

Stanford
Down
# of blitzes# of chancesPercentage
1st
52124%
2nd
61932%
3rd
11010%
Total125024%

Clearly it seems as if the Irish are dialing back the blitz frequency. I'm sure the injury to Travis Thomas didn't help, but there is a noticeable lack of blitzing in the past few games as compared to earlier games in the season.

Season Totals
OpponentBlitz %
Georgia Tech44%
Penn State40%
Michigan
30%
Michigan State23%
Purdue24%
Stanford24%
TOTAL31%

Season Long Running Totals

Since the table was getting a bit crowded, I moved it to its own webpage. You can check out all the season long stats, right here.