Bad stat from the Paul Finebaum Show..BT teams

[Raziel]

since 2002 are 17-32 coming off a bye week in league play.

To further emphasize the point, OSU is 1-3 in that time span coming off a bye week.

Iowa is 1-3 coming off a bye week as well.

In 03 we lost to a good OSU team in the shoe 19-10, in 04 we gave OSU a beatdown in Kinnick (for our only win), in 05 we lost to NW coming off a bye, and recently, we lost to Illinois in 08 coming off a bye (a bad Illinois team that the 08 team should have beaten).

I think that a bye week was a good thing going into this game....it gave our D time to prepare for a complicated offense, but if we perform poorly on Saturday, maybe there is something to the bye week messing with a teams chemistry.

17-32 as a league is pretty bad. The SEC is like 53-53 in the same time span and the PAC 10 and Big 12 are around .500 (though slightly below that if I remember correctly), but the Big Ten comes in at .340 coming off a bye since 02...that is pretty terrible.

 

[thejumper5]

If you never bring up the 05 NW game again, I would be okay with that.

 

[edr247]

since 2002 are 17-32 coming off a bye week in league play.

To further emphasize the point, OSU is 1-3 in that time span coming off a bye week.

Iowa is 1-3 coming off a bye week as well.

In 03 we lost to a good OSU team in the shoe 19-10, in 04 we gave OSU a beatdown in Kinnick (for our only win), in 05 we lost to NW coming off a bye, and recently, we lost to Illinois in 08 coming off a bye (a bad Illinois team that the 08 team should have beaten).

I think that a bye week was a good thing going into this game....it gave our D time to prepare for a complicated offense, but if we perform poorly on Saturday, maybe there is something to the bye week messing with a teams chemistry.

17-32 as a league is pretty bad. The SEC is like 53-53 in the same time span and the PAC 10 and Big 12 are around .500 (though slightly below that if I remember correctly), but the Big Ten comes in at .340 coming off a bye since 02...that is pretty terrible.

It'll be interesting to look at this stat by looking at the match-ups, and perhaps breaking them down by team.

Ferentz has noted that coming off of bye weeks, getting the team back to game speed has been difficult. Hopefully getting the guys pumped and ready to go for Michigan won't take a lot of effort.

What is a bit worrying is that all three of those losses happened on the road. Two against teams we should have beaten (and would have if not for last second lapses by the defenses).

 

[Raziel]

I guess my only theory to explain the difference between the Big Ten and the other leagues is that maybe Big Ten teams struggle with it more because we don't get bye weeks every year, while other leagues do have bye weeks every year?

That's the only thing I can come up with, but it is a very strange stat considering the other leagues are right around .500 in the same time span.