Fun Facts of The MWC Week 6 Edition

by bhsmarine on Oct 11, 2011 9:28 AM PDT in Mountain West Football

Once again I have decided what interesting facts I could find about the MWC. They mean nothing in terms of skill or projecting teams, just interesting facts.

Nordly Capi leads the nation with 1.6 sacks a game, last time a MWC player did that was Jerry Hughes in 2008 with 1.15 a game.

CSU is tied for 3rd in the nation in sacks with 19. However they are nearly 50 sack yards behind Hawaii and Oklahoma who also have 19 sacks. That is 23rd in sack yardage.

Boise St the highest scoring team in the MWC has missed the most PAT's with 5, while the bottom three scoring offenses UNM, UNLV, CSU have not missed at PAT yet.

New Mexico opponents are a weak 40%(2-5) at kicking field goals against the Lobos, Oregon State opponents are 0-4 leading the nation.

Air Force opponents are 7-7 converting 4th downs against the Falcons. The only other team allowing 100% is Louisiana-Monroe (4-4).

UNLV has recovered all 7 of their opponents fumbles, Air Force only 1 of the 6 their opponents have coughed up.

Wyoming has only 5 punt returns this year, and average 1 yard per return.

UNM Freshman Deon Long is 1st in the MWC and 10th in the nation in yards per play at 17.9YPP.

That's all I got for now. A couple crazy ones, a couple not so much as things are starting to smooth out with a bigger sample size.

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I'm really liking this series, keep up the good work.

As for the stats, I think the most telling of those is Wyoming only having five punt returns so far this season. To me, this means that the offense isn’t doing the best job at getting stops straight up, rather they are getting turnovers towards the end of long drives by the opponent or they’re just giving up points.

The best example of this is that Wyoming only gave up four touchdowns to Bowling Green, yet the Falcons gained massive amounts of yardage. This was because Bowling Green turned it over six times in that game, and becuase four of them were on Wyoming’s side of the 50 yard line.

The same sort of yardage was given up to Utah State last week, the only difference was that Wyoming wasn’t forcing turnovers when backed up into their own territory. Henceforth, Utah State went on to score at will and blowout the Cowboys.

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