WATCH: Texas A&M's Mike Elko takes center stage at SECMD25

At the 10 minute 20 second mark on the above video, I did a double take when Coach said the A&M offense led the SEC in conference play in Points Per Game (PPG). Surely, that could not be correct.

So I checked https://cfbstats.com/2024/leader/911/team/offense/split07/category09/sort01.html and sure enough the Fightin' Texas Aggies Offense was ranked #1 in PPG in 2024 during conference play. Turns out Coach was right. I said to myself, I says, ...self, that is a shocking stat!

Carry on.

redjalapeno-87 said:

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At the 10 minute 20 second mark on the above video, I did a double take when Coach said the A&M offense led the SEC in conference play in Points Per Game (PPG). Surely, that could not be correct.

So I checked https://cfbstats.com/2024/leader/911/team/offense/split07/category09/sort01.html and sure enough the Fightin' Texas Aggies Offense was ranked #1 in PPG in 2024 during conference play. Turns out Coach was right. I said to myself, I says, ...self, that is a shocking stat!

Carry on.

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So can we get off Collin Klien's ass now?

While true, go dissect it a bit more....as a bit misleading. While ebbs and flows of a season, we had a couple blowouts (thank u Mizzou, UF, MS St sort of), a 4OT game, buoying points (which we lost...still irritating), but no offense against teams that really mattered late in the season (exception, LSU comeback w their inability to control Reed).

The overall stat is true, but click a little deeper. Anyone with a real defense (ND, USCe, tu) shut this offense down, and even the pigs slowed it down. On the positive, think Klein's offense was limited by Reed's inability to pass consistently, and if there's solid improvement there, then there's tons of upside (coupled with TE / WR improvement).

The other consideration is that there were some very good defenses in the SEC last year and multiple teams with QB issues (us included) which tends to result in lower scoring games.

We may have been #1 in scoring in conference play last year but it was a low bar.

And honestly, we scored a few defensive TDs (tu and Florida off the top of my head) and/or the defense set up some very short fields (LSU in particular) that helped buoy the average.

Since it is hard to give a purely quantitative measure to short fields helping scoring, I wonder how we would have stacked up based purely on scoring by the offense. Those two definite defensive TDs would lower our average by 1.75 ppg.

Statistically, Colin Klein's offense was good but wildly inconsistent. We scored 31+ offensive points in regulation in 4 of 8 SEC games, including in 2 of 4 road games. Unfortunately, we did not score a single offensive point against Texas at home because we failed to convert 4th and 1 at the Texas 10-yard line on our opening drive and failed to score on 4th and goal from the Texas 1-yard line with 4:36 left in the game. We failed to score more than 21 offensive points in 3 other games: 13 against Notre Dame (home), 21 against Arkansas (neutral), and 20 against South Carolina (away). When we scored 26+ offensive points in regulation, we went 7-2, but when we scored 21 offensive points or fewer, we went 1-3.

Klein's offense has had 5 games that did not score than 7 points in one of the halves.
@Florida: 20 points in the 1st half and 6 points (the other 7 came on a pick-6) in the 2nd half.
Arkansas: 14 points in the 1st half and 7 points in the 2nd half
LSU: 7 points in the 1st half and 31 points in the 2nd half
@South Carolina: 20 points in the 1st half and 0 points in the 2nd half
@Auburn: 7 points in the 1st half and 24 points in the 2nd half of regulation

Klein's offense scored 13+ points in both halves of just two SEC/Power 4 games:
Missouri: 24 points in the 1st half and 17 points in the 2nd half
@Mississippi State: 21 points in the 1st half and 13 points in the 2nd half

Iraq2xVeteran said:

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Statistically, Colin Klein's offense was good but wildly inconsistent. We scored 31+ offensive points in regulation in 4 of 8 SEC games, including in 2 of 4 road games. Unfortunately, we did not score a single offensive point against Texas at home because we failed to convert 4th and 1 at the Texas 10-yard line on our opening drive and failed to score on 4th and goal from the Texas 1-yard line with 4:36 left in the game. We failed to score more than 21 offensive points in 3 other games: 13 against Notre Dame (home), 21 against Arkansas (neutral), and 20 against South Carolina (away). When we scored 26+ offensive points in regulation, we went 7-2, but when we scored 21 offensive points or fewer, we went 1-3.

Klein's offense has had 5 games that did not score than 7 points in one of the halves.
@Florida: 20 points in the 1st half and 6 points (the other 7 came on a pick-6) in the 2nd half.
Arkansas: 14 points in the 1st half and 7 points in the 2nd half
LSU: 7 points in the 1st half and 31 points in the 2nd half
@South Carolina: 20 points in the 1st half and 0 points in the 2nd half
@Auburn: 7 points in the 1st half and 24 points in the 2nd half of regulation

Klein's offense scored 13+ points in both halves of just two SEC/Power 4 games:
Missouri: 24 points in the 1st half and 17 points in the 2nd half
@Mississippi State: 21 points in the 1st half and 13 points in the 2nd half

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Couldn't you make the same type of argument for most teams?