Oregon v Ohio State - A Tale of Two Stories - Part 8 - Scoring

Okay, today we'll look at how each team scored against their opponents and how well they defended scores by their opponents.

Scoring O				They
Rank	Name	Points	Avg	Scored	Delta
1	Boise St.	574	44.15	19	-25.15
7	Oregon	452	37.67
10	Stanford	434	36.17	51	14.83
22	Oregon St.	389	32.42	33	0.58
41	Arizona	356	29.67	21	-8.67
47	California	351	29.25	3	-26.25
47	Ohio St.	351	29.25
47	Utah	351	29.25	24	-5.25
55	Purdue	334	27.83	36	8.17
64	Southern California	320	26.67	20	-6.67
70	Washington	313	26.08	19	-7.08
91	Arizona St.	268	22.33	41	18.67
99	UCLA	256	21.33	10	-11.33
119	Washington St.	144	12	6	-6
	Averages	340.83	28.1	23.58	-4.51
Scoring D				UO
Rank	Name	Points	Avg	Scored	Delta
5	Ohio St.	146	12.17
16	Boise St.	230	17.69	8	-9.69
19	Utah	236	19.67	31	11.33
22	Southern California	245	20.42	47	26.58
29	Arizona St.	253	21.08	44	22.92
32	UCLA	255	21.25	24	2.75
46	Arizona	278	23.17	44	20.83
51	Oregon St.	281	23.42	37	13.58
52	Oregon	283	23.58
54	California	294	24.5	42	17.5
65	Stanford	314	26.17	42	15.83
71	Washington	320	26.67	43	16.33
90	Purdue	349	29.08	38	8.92
118	Washington St.	462	38.5	52	13.5
	Averages	293.08	24.3	37.67	13.37
Scoring O				They
Rank	Name	Points	Avg	Scored	Delta
7	Oregon	452	37.67
21	Wisconsin	393	32.75	13	-19.75
41	Penn St.	356	29.67	7	-22.67
41	Toledo	356	29.67	0	-29.67
45	Michigan	354	29.5	10	-19.5
47	Ohio St.	351	29.25		-29.25
55	Purdue	334	27.83	26	-1.83
60	Navy	357	27.46	27	-0.46
64	Southern California	320	26.67	18	-8.67
82	Illinois	290	24.17	0	-24.17
84	Indiana	282	23.5	14	-9.5
86	Iowa	277	23.08	24	0.92
98	Minnesota	259	21.58	7	-14.58
120	New Mexico St.	149	11.46	0	-11.46
	Averages	310.58	25.61	12.17	-13.45
Scoring D				tOSU
Rank	Name	Points	Avg	Scored	Delta
4	Penn St.	142	11.83	24	12.17
5	Ohio St.	146	12.17
10	Iowa	186	15.5	27	11.5
20	Navy	259	19.92	31	11.08
22	Southern California	245	20.42	15	-5.42
41	Wisconsin	269	22.42	31	8.58
52	Oregon	283	23.58
56	Minnesota	295	24.58	38	13.42
79	Michigan	330	27.5	21	-6.5
90	Purdue	349	29.08	18	-11.08
93	Indiana	354	29.5	33	3.5
95	Illinois	362	30.17	30	-0.17
101	New Mexico St.	411	31.62	45	13.38
116	Toledo	452	37.67	38	0.33
	Averages	304.5	25.02	29.25	4.23

In case the above is confusing, here is the skinny. 

Oregon held their opponents to an average of -4.5 points below their average per game and yet scored an average of almost 2 TD's more than their opponents allowed.  tOSU scored an average of 4 points more than their opponents allowed and held their opponents to about 2 TD's below their average scoring.

Not unlike what a lot of pundits are saying, these two teams are complete opposites.

There isn't much more to tell about this, except to say in my subjective opinion, I am thinking that the B10's lack of offense makes the defensive unit for tOSU look good and since the P10 had respectable defenses, it makes the Oregon offense look that much better.

If we look at what each team does, Oregon's -4.51+4.23 comes out to a negligible difference on tOSU's average score of 29 points.  On the other hand, tOSU's defensive units -13.45+13.37 for Oregon leave the Ducks at their 38 points.

So a final score of Ducks 38, Bucks 29 does not seem all that far out there.