Had an early flight out of Jacksonville, so had to make the drive from Gainesville to my hotel by the JAX airport. Arrived back at the Spring Hill Suites at around 2 a.m., then up at 5:30 for shower, gas up the rental and on to the airport for my 7:30 a.m. flight. Wrote my Monday follow column during layover in Atlanta, but have to admit that once I got home, while trying to watch Carson Palmer stink-it-up against the Panthers, took a long nap.
Long story short: I’m just now getting around to analyzing Cats-Gators. Sorry for the lack of links today. I’ll be back on that case tomorrow. Promise.
But I did notice this little weird stat/factoid. Kentucky’s 99 rushing yards was it fewest since the 2008 game at Florida, when Kentucky gained just 86 yards in that 63-5 embarrassment. But here’s the weird part. Kentucky had 28 rushing attempts. If you look back, the Cats don’t do so well when they fail to run the ball at least 30 times. In fact, UK is 2-21 in its last 23 games in which it has less than 30 rushing attempts. That goes back to 2003.
As you may have guessed, here’s the chart:
I think you are not analizing the data in the correct manner. To me the data probably indicates that when Kentucky gets far behind in a game they pass much more and run much less.
Levi, I think you are exactly right. But part of that comes from not being able to run the ball in the first place, and being forced to throw.