(07-12-2017 06:33 PM)ranfin Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 06:07 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 01:24 PM)I45owl Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 08:16 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  Lynch said that the college game is won primarily through explosive plays and creating turnovers (and containing the opponents). That sounds like those will be our key areas of focus.

I think we all know that games are lost through those three factors. It would be very nice to find out if the inverse is true.

I'm going to research this one... but before I do I'll go out on a limb and say that in our 10-win seasons we were able to:
+Match opponents' explosive plays, and win TD turnover battle (by a lot) in 2008
+exceed our opponents' explosive plays and marginally win the turnover battle in 2013.

I bet you're right. We have never been much good at avoiding explosive plays during the Bailiff regime. To do really well, we have had to squeak by with our own explosiveness and winning the turnover battle.

With a few exceptions (1980, 1994 come to mind), our vulnerability to explosive plays has predated Coach Bailiff by decades. (2004 @ SJSU as a oft-cited example)