thanks dp....appreciate it....
decided to add another play....
under 45(125) miss. / vandy....
so far this year vandy's offense has looked good against horrible defensive teams like w. car. & rice....but against the 2 sec opponents that they have played, they have been under-whelming....gaining 210 yards of total offense against lsu & 157 against miss. st....that averages out to 3 yppl....& they should struggle against a very good miss. defense that's been 0.5 yppl better than average so far this season while giving up 12 ppg....
on the other side of the ball, miss. potent offense has been a disappointment so far this year by averaging only 0.1 yards per play better than average in their first 3 games & were held to just 4.0 yppl & 10 points by so. car.'s defense last week....& in that game the miss. offensive line had problems slowing down the so. car pass rush....they should also have problems handling vandy's pass rush that is averaging 3 sacks per game....& in addition vandy has a very good 2ndary that is ranked #3 in the nation....
imo miss. will try to offset the vandy pass rush by running the ball, because vandy allows 5 ypr & i think that vandy is aware that they can't get into a shootout with miss., so i think they will slow the game down & play field position....& all of this should eat up the clock....i hope...lol....
some trends....
over the last 3 seasons vandy is 15-3 under against conference opponents....the average score was vandy 16.9, opponent 23.1....
over the last 3 seasons miss. is 8-1 under after a game where they forced 1 or less turnovers....the average score was miss. 20.5, opponent 21.4....
a system....
play under - all teams where the total is between 42.5 and 49 (miss. & vandy both qualify) - in a game involving two opportunistic teams (2.5+ turnovers/game forced), in conference games....
over the last 5 seasons the system's record is....26-4....86.7%....
the average total posted in these games was: 45.8....the average score in these games was: team 17.5, opponent 17.5....the number of games in which this system covered the total by 7 or more points was 20....66.7% of all games....
the system's record this season is....2-0....
my only worry about this play is that vandy has been pretty sloppy handling the ball averaging 2 takeways per game....while miss. has forced on average 3 takeaways per game....
good luck....