It's that week again. It's Conference Championship weekend. It's the weekend that will finally determine the Top 4 in the College Football Playoff rankings and show who plays who for Bowl Season. This is definitely one of my favorite parts of the year and not just because of Christmas. This time of year really shows us what the rest of the College Football teams and NFL teams are made of. College Football teams try their best to get in their best bowl game and then really go out to end the season well. NFL teams are really cracking down to play better to end the season well and get a shot at entering the playoffs. All of this with the Christmas season just makes it a great time.
The regular season for the Razorbacks ended with an 8-4 record with 4-4 in the conference. 8 wins is the same amount of wins from the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons combined. These seasons were Bret Bielema's last season and the Chad Morris years. We have grown so much since those terrible years. This is actually the first season that I feel that resembles more with the success that we had with Bobby Petrino. We are not there yet but with how Sam Pittman is handling things, we can definitely get there. With Bret Bielema, we did have great moments but too many times we would get blown out or lose to a team that we should've beaten. This year we only got blown out by Georgia (obviously they are #1 now) and had close games with Ole Miss and Alabama. Auburn was a more or less a close and blown out game but sometimes those games can happen from nowhere. But we've had other close games where we came out of the top where we would normally choke under Bret Bielema or Chad Morris. With Chad Morris it was just terrible. I'll show you a chart of the average amount of points we score each game (offensive) compared to points we give up (defensive) from 2009-2021.
From 2009-2011 are Bobby Petrino years and he was good at keeping the offensive points more than defensive points. The only years after that where that happens is from 2014-2015 and 2021. If you know Sam Pittman, he was here as one of the coaches from 2013-2015 and then head coach from 2020-2021. Notice that the years after Bobby Petrino that we've been able to score more Offensive Points than Defensive Points given is when Sam Pittman is here. Our winning percentage is different because of this. When Offensive Points > Defensive Points, our winning percentage is 67.53%. When Offensive Points < Defensive Points, our winning percentage is 30.12%. It's a simple concept of football that determines how well the team is. Score more than the other team. Bobby Petrino did that more often and that's why his winning percentage was at 74.36% from his best years from 2009-2011. All I have to say is so far we seem to be on the right track to get like that again but of course we will need to do more. Seeing how consistent Bobby Petrino was in doing this is why we Razorback fans really miss those good days of Arkansas Football.
Last week I went 18-5 (78.3%) for my College Football predictions (Total: 187-56 (77%)) and 11-4 (73.3%) for NFL predictions (Total: 102-68 (60%)). Now let's do this week's predictions!
College Football Week 14:
Oregon vs. Utah: Utah
Baylor vs. Oklahoma St.: Oklahoma St.
Utah State vs. San Diego State: San Diego State
Appalachian St vs. Louisiana: Appalachian St
Georgia vs. Alabama: Georgia
Houston vs. Cincinnati: Cincinnati
Michigan vs. Iowa: Michigan
Pittsburgh vs. Wake Forest: Pittsburgh
Western KY vs. UTSA: UTSA
Kent State vs. N Illinois: Kent State
USC vs. California: California
NFL Week 13:
Cowboys vs. Saints: Cowboys
Broncos vs. Chiefs: Chiefs
Buccaneers vs. Falcons: Buccaneers
Cardinals vs. Bears: Cardinals
Chargers vs. Bengals: Bengals
Vikings vs. Lions: Vikings
Giants vs. Dolphins: Giants
Eagles vs. Jets: Eagles
Colts vs. Texans: Colts
Washington vs. Raiders: Raiders
Jaguars vs. Rams: Rams
Ravens vs. Steelers: Ravens
49ers vs. Seahawks: 49ers
Patriots vs. Bills: Patriots
No comments:
Post a Comment