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(11-15-2017 10:29 AM)ODUalum78 Wrote:  

(11-14-2017 05:28 PM)Gilesfan Wrote:  6.5 yards per attempt is low. FIU averages 7.6 yards per attempt.

What teams average less than 5 yards per attempt? I think even Charlotte averages that. I would be surprised if there were a handful of teams that average less than a first down every 2 passing attempts. When you throw the ball 50 times, it is hard not to throw for 300 yards, it would take true ineptness. FWIW, we averaged 10 yards per pass attempt vs. FIU.

We gave up 23 points until a garbage time TD got it to 27. That is good enough to win with a competent offense.

I agree that if we eliminate all the good things we did, we probably lose.

Butch Davis: "we thought we could complete a lot of passes underneath the ODU zone"
Look at the play-by-play.

The game was still on the line. There was no garbage time.

Truth. I was pretty darn nervous we were going to choke it away when we didnt recover the onside kick.

(11-15-2017 10:29 AM)ODUalum78 Wrote:  

(11-14-2017 05:28 PM)Gilesfan Wrote:  6.5 yards per attempt is low. FIU averages 7.6 yards per attempt.

What teams average less than 5 yards per attempt? I think even Charlotte averages that. I would be surprised if there were a handful of teams that average less than a first down every 2 passing attempts. When you throw the ball 50 times, it is hard not to throw for 300 yards, it would take true ineptness. FWIW, we averaged 10 yards per pass attempt vs. FIU.

We gave up 23 points until a garbage time TD got it to 27. That is good enough to win with a competent offense.

I agree that if we eliminate all the good things we did, we probably lose.

Butch Davis: "we thought we could complete a lot of passes underneath the ODU zone"
Look at the play-by-play.

The game was still on the line. There was no garbage time.

How did that work out for them? Up 14 with 20 seconds left is garbage time.

(11-05-2017 09:51 AM)DWING Wrote:  Not sure of our chances against FIU, but I'll go out on a limb and say we somehow win this one.

Then we beat Rice.

Then we travel to MT Sue with a bowl bid on the line and...........get blown out!

Of course we could win out and then win the bowl game and salvage a winning season.

I should go to Vegas..... I called this prior to the FIU game