Why is McCaffery going to New York?

[SeeYouNT]

Fact, if Henry was from the West Coast this would be the largest margin of victory just like Mariota was last year.

Hell with has total yards and YPC he wouldn't even be a top 5 candidate if he were a west coast kid.

 

[theboardref]

I think you are highly overestimating how good the SEC is this year.

Go look up defensie stats, numbers don't lie about Alabama's schedule, not just talking SEC. Bama playe against 5 good defenses Henry ran for an average of 158 yards and 1.8 td's while Mccaffery had one game and ran for a whopping 60 some yards. #HeismanNumbers
Half of the season he did not score a point in his games in the PAC 12. What are the excuses?

 

[Codaxx]

SEC Rushing leaders (CFB STATS)
Name Team Yr Pos G Att Yards Avg. TD Att/G Yards/G
1 Leonard Fournette LSU SO RB 11 271 1741 6.42 18 24.64 158.27
2 Derrick Henry Alabama JR RB 13 339 1986 5.86 23 26.08 152.77
3 Alex Collins Arkansas JR RB 12 248 1392 5.61 17 20.67 116.00

PAC 10 Rushing leaders
Name Team Yr Pos G Att Yards Avg. TD Att/G Yards/G
1 Royce Freeman Oregon SO RB 12 257 1706 6.64 14 21.42 142.17
2 Christian McCaffrey Stanford SO RB 13 319 1847 5.79 8 24.54 142.08
3 Devontae Booker Utah SR RB 10 268 1261 4.71 11 26.80 126.10

Seems both RB candidates are 2nd in rushing in their division with lower yards per carry.

PAC 10 All-Purpose Yards
Name Team Yr Pos G Rush Recv. Punt Ret. Kick Ret. Plays Total Yards Yards/Play Yards/G
1 Christian McCaffrey Stanford SO RB 13 1847 540 67 1042 410 3496 8.5 268.9
2 Royce Freeman Oregon SO RB 12 1706 325 0 0 281 2031 7.2 169.3
3 Devontae Booker Utah SR RB 10 1261 318 0 0 305 1579 5.2 157.9

SEC All-Purpose Yards
Name Team Yr Pos G Rush Recv. Punt Ret. Kick Ret. Plays Total Yards Yards/Play Yards/G
1 Leonard Fournette LSU SO RB 11 1741 209 0 0 289 1950 6.7 177.3
2 Derrick Henry Alabama JR RB 13 1986 97 0 0 349 2083 6.0 160.2
3 Christian Kirk Texas A&M FR WR 12 45 925 341 348 112 1659 14.8 138.3

At least McCaffery leads his conference in All-Purpose yards.

 

[7Samurai13]

Go look up defensie stats, numbers don't lie about Alabama's schedule, not just talking SEC. Bama playe against 5 good defenses Henry ran for an average of 158 yards and 1.8 td's while Mccaffery had one game and ran for a whopping 60 some yards. #HeismanNumbers
Half of the season he did not score a point in his games in the PAC 12. What are the excuses?

And there are no good offenses in the SEC outside Alabama and LSU. It's the old argument,does the Big12 have great offenses are just bad defenses? Does the SEC have good defenses or does teams like Florida and Missouri just raise up everyone's stats?

 

[TDs3nOut]

I think McCaffrey deserves the recognition he's getting. No small feat to lead the country in all purpose yards.

 

[theboardref]

And there are no good offenses in the SEC outside Alabama and LSU. It's the old argument,does the Big12 have great offenses are just bad defenses? Does the SEC have good defenses or does teams like Florida and Missouri just raise up everyone's stats?

Not as bad as Big 10 defenses though.

 

[7Samurai13]

Not as bad as Big 10 defenses though.

We shall see.

 

[DHoey]

Henry=Gerhart

 

[TheDayMan]

Go look up defensie stats, numbers don't lie about Alabama's schedule, not just talking SEC. Bama playe against 5 good defenses Henry ran for an average of 158 yards and 1.8 td's while Mccaffery had one game and ran for a whopping 60 some yards. #HeismanNumbers
Half of the season he did not score a point in his games in the PAC 12. What are the excuses?

Who's the one good defense you're referring to? Washington has the #12 scoring defense in the country, McCaffrey ran for 109 yards and a TD, and had 112 receiving yards and a TD...

And Stanford used another back in short yardage situations (which they had a lot of), I'm sure he'd have accounted for significantly more touchdowns if he weren't taken out in those situations...

 

[podsox]

defensive metrics are scewed when u play in a conference filled with shit offenses and pathetic qb play.

 

[TheDayMan]

The real question here isn't 'why is he going to new york?' It's 'how big of a bummer will it be when he doesn't win?'

 

[DHoey]

defensive metrics are scewed when u play in a conference filled with shit offenses and pathetic qb play.

Vandy, Florida, Georgia (post Chubb), Missouri, Auburn, South Carolina, all offensive juggernauts this year

 

[7Samurai13]

defensive metrics are scewed when u play in a conference filled with shit offenses and pathetic qb play.

Ruddock might be the best QB Florida faces this year. That's not an exaggeration.

 

[podsox]

Vandy, Florida, Georgia (post Chubb), Missouri, all offensive juggernauts this year

LSU and Auburn couldn't complete a simple pass all yr either

 

[Codaxx]

Not as bad as Big 10 defenses though.

Explain to me what Henry has done that deserves to be there. McCaffery is far and away the all-purpose yards leader in the PAC. Henry doesnt lead the SEC in yards/game in any stat.

 

[Hornsstampede2.0]

SEC offenses this season were literally the worst they have been in 30 years.

It was not just great SEC defenses by themselves.

There was some good defense, but it had a lot to do with some horrible god awful QBs.

 

[Across The Field]

The pac 12 wasn't down as a whole. In fact, I think it was up. There just wasn't a clear playoff worthy team at the top.

Really? I saw all but one team underachieve.
Oregon: Preseason 7, Final 15
USC 8; (inexplicably) 25
UCLA 13; UR
Arizona State 15; UR
Arizona 22; UR

Stanford is the only team that didn't drop substantially from their preseason ranking. Utah did well but fizzled after a hot start. Wazzou was a nice story, but lost to an FCS team, got murdered by a bad Washington team, and got to face Oregon with Lockie and not Adams.

 

[Codaxx]

Facing the 104th Rushing rush defense in Texas A&M was easier than anything McCaffery saw in the Pac.
He made up for it by facing the 91st rush defense in Auburn. MissState at 72. Are we sure the defenses were far and away better?

 

[DHoey]

Really? I saw all but one team underachieve.
Oregon: Preseason 7, Final 15
USC 8; (inexplicably) 25
UCLA 13; UR
Arizona State 15; UR
Arizona 22; UR

Stanford is the only team that didn't drop substantially from their preseason ranking. Utah did well but fizzled after a hot start. Wazzou was a nice story, but lost to an FCS team, got murdered by a bad Washington team, and got to face Oregon with Lockie and not Adams.

Wazzu overachieved
UW overachieved
Cal Overachieved
Stanford Overachieved
Utah Overachieved.

Pac-12 schedules do Pac teams no favors.

 

[Across The Field]

Wazzu overachieved
UW overachieved
Cal Overachieved
Stanford Overachieved
Utah Overachieved.

Pac-12 schedules do Pac teams no favors.

UW went 6-6. That's not an "up" year.
Cal was 7-5. Also not an "up" year.

Stanford and Utah were solid teams. Wazzou, I'm sorry, was not. You don't lose to an FCS team and get your doors blown off by 6-6 Washington if you want people to think you're a good team. Also, as I said, they got to face Lockie, who is a substantial downgrade from Adams.

Overall, you guys started the year with 2 top 10 teams and 5 ranked teams overall. You ended with 1 top 10 team and 3 teams ranked overall. I'd say that amounts to an underachieving season for the conference, especially the South.