BLITZindex College Football Defense Rankings, Nov 8

November 9th, 2009 by Vince Mullins

The BLITZindex is an equal weighted measure of national ranks in three team defense categories – yards per play allowed (YPP), Yard per point allowed (YPPt), and points per game allowed (PPG). Yards per game allowed is included in the study for comparison only but not the rankings.

Blackshirts. Black makeup. Husker Hat. Perfect. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

With the throttling beatdown of the Oklahoma Sooners and with 68% of precincts reporting, Fantasy College Blitz is comfortable projecting that the Nebraska Cornhusker Blackshirts Defense has won the race again to be the top defense in the land. They are Back in Black.

The Pelini Brothers succeed in resurrecting the legendary Nebraska defense to its proper place atop the country – Top five rankings in all the categories illustrate just how ineffective the Sun Belt and Big 12 offenses have been in 2009 when facing the Huskers.

Other notes of interest:

Texas has a huge lead in yards per play allowed with just 3.53 – a full 0.35 yards better than #2 Alabama and even the 7th ranked TCU allows 4 ypp. Nation-worst EMU allows twice that! Kudos to Will Muschamp for adding the missing link to the Longhorns evolution towards the national championship.
Army is in the top decile in yds/gm allowed at just over 290 (not part of the index) and 33rd in ypp, showing that the defense is quite stout. The offense and special teams are not doing their part though as the Black Knights are 60th in ppg and even worse at 110th in yds/pt. All that equals out to the 69th overall defense. I need to research further but it is likely that Army opponents have the best starting field position in the history of football given those divergences.
Western Kentucky may have fired the wrong coach today because the defense almost had the bizarro-perfect score of 120 in all the digits – the Hilltoppers are the worst in the country in pts allowed (44.56) and yds/play allowed (7.18). Seven teams are worse than them in yards per point allowed (11.53). Ha, every two plays equals a point – can it get much worse?

Numerical ranks after the jump, alphabetical with all stats on the .pdf to help you with your playoff matchups.

Other notes of interest:

Texas has a huge lead in yards per play allowed with just 3.53 – a full 0.35 yards better than #2 Alabama and even the 7th ranked TCU allows 4 ypp. Nation-worst EMU allows twice that! Kudos to Will Muschamp for adding the missing link to the Longhorns evolution towards the national championship.

Army is in the top decile in yds/gm allowed at just over 290 (not part of the index) and 33rd in ypp, showing that the defense is quite stout. The offense and special teams are not doing their part though as the Black Knights are 60th in ppg and even worse at 110th in yds/pt. All that equals out to the 69th overall defense. I need to research further but it is likely that Army opponents have the best starting field position in the history of football given those divergences.

Western Kentucky may have fired the wrong coach today because the defense almost had the bizarro-perfect score of 120 in all the digits – the Hilltoppers are the worst in the country in pts allowed (44.56) and yds/play allowed (7.18). Seven teams are worse than them in yards per point allowed (11.53). Ha, every two plays equals a point – can it get much worse?

Numerical ranks after the jump, alphabetical with all stats on the >pdf to help you with your playoff matchups.

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BLITZindex Defense Rank

1 Nebraska
2 Florida
3 Ohio St.
4 Penn St.
5 Alabama
6 TCU
7 Oklahoma
8 Texas
9 Air Force
10 LSU
11 Mississippi
12 Iowa
12 Cincinnati
14 North Carolina
14 Utah
16 Boise St.
17 Southern Cal
18 Clemson
19 Virginia Tech
20 Central Mich.
21 Pittsburgh
22 South Fla.
23 Boston College
24 Rutgers
25 Tennessee
26 Arizona St.
27 Ohio
28 Northern Ill.
28 Oregon
30 West Virginia
31 Kent St.
32 Oklahoma St.
33 Arkansas St.
34 UCF
35 South Carolina
36 Temple
37 Marshall
38 Vanderbilt
39 East Carolina
40 Texas Tech
41 Michigan St.
42 Tulsa
43 Navy
43 California
45 Kentucky
46 BYU
46 Iowa St.
48 UCLA
49 Baylor
50 Kansas St.
51 Arizona
52 Southern Miss.
53 Miami (FL)
54 Missouri
55 Middle Tenn.
56 Fresno St.
57 Wisconsin
58 Virginia
59 Notre Dame
60 Kansas
61 Oregon St.
62 Duke
62 Wake Forest
64 Connecticut
65 Northwestern
66 Mississippi St.
66 Stanford
68 Akron
69 Army
70 Troy
71 Wyoming
72 Louisiana Tech
73 Auburn
73 Arkansas
75 Michigan
76 Minnesota
77 Georgia
78 Buffalo
79 Illinois
80 La.-Monroe
81 Georgia Tech
82 Purdue
83 SMU
83 Indiana
85 Western Mich.
85 Houston
87 Louisville
88 San Diego St.
88 Ball St.
90 North Carolina St.
91 Bowling Green
92 Syracuse
93 La.-Lafayette
94 Washington
95 Texas A&M
96 Colorado
97 Nevada
98 UAB
99 New Mexico St.
100 Maryland
100 Florida St.
102 Colorado St.
103 FIU
104 UNLV
105 Idaho
105 Utah St.
107 New Mexico
108 Hawaii
109 UTEP
110 Miami (OH)
111 Memphis
112 Toledo
113 North Texas
114 San Jose St.
115 Washington St.
116 Tulane
117 Fla. Atlantic
118 Rice
119 Western Ky.
120 Eastern Mich.

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