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College Football Teams 2008 Statistically Compared using cfbstats.com: Florida vs. Texas Tech

By Andis Kaulins

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The current college football rating system by popular polls should be scrapped. A review of football statistics this season shows this clearly. Too much emphasis is being placed upon a team going undefeated against weak opposition, rather than on hard football facts. We have already shown that USC is the much better team when compared to Alabama. On the other hand, Oklahoma and Texas are very close. Let us now compare Florida and Texas Tech. Texas Tech has been ignored in favor of Oklahoma and Texas as the third man out in the BCS selection which allows for only two teams per conference in BCS bowls. How much weaker is it than Florida in terms of the stats?

College Football Teams 2008 Statistically Compared by LawPundit using statistics from cfbstats.com:

Florida vs. Texas Tech
In comparing these stats consider that the Massey Ratings rank the Florida schedule difficulty as the 23rd most difficult in the country and the Texas Tech schedule difficulty as the 13th most difficult. Sagarin at USATODAY.COM has the respective schedule difficulty as 28th for Florida and 26th for Texas Tech.

Parameter	Florida (12 games)	Opponents	Texas Tech (12 games)	Opponents	Advantage to
Scoring/game	46.3	12.3	44.6	26.3	Florida
Points scored	556	147	535	315	Florida
First Downs	263	191	334	256	Texas Tech
Yards per Play Rushing	6.20	3.26	4.71	3.89	Florida
Rushing Yards	2845	1233	1427	1602	Florida
Passing Rating	173.08	93.68	161.519	127.35	Florida
Passing Yards	2548	2075	5007	2857	Texas Tech
Yards per play Total Offense	7.3	4.3	7.1	5.5	Texas Tech
Total Offense Yards	5393	3308	6434	4459	Texas Tech
Punt Returns Yards/Return	14.89	3.91	10.25	8.80	Florida
Kickoff Returns Yards/Return	21.43	22.28	22.13	20.90	Texas Tech
Punting Yards/Punt	42.41	39.29	34.68	43.16	Florida
Interceptions	23	3	17	8	Florida
Fumbles (No. - Lost)	19-8	16-9	18-11	13-9	Florida
Penalties -Yards	88 - 713	81 - 640	87 - 721	78 - 631	even
3rd Down Conversions	48.58%	31.14%	54.55%	37.58%	even
Red Zone Success	91.38%	67.74%	86.11%	80.43%	Florida
Field Goal Success	100%	71.4%	53.8%	70.6%	Florida
PAT Success	98.7%	81.3%	91.7%	94.6%	Florida
					Advantage
					to Florida
Final Totals					12-5-2