Florida and South Carolina played a messy game in messy conditions on Saturday. The refs didn’t help, with them missing a substantial number of calls against both teams. Fortunately the numbers can help us cut through some of the mess to figure out a little of what was going on.
This review is based on Bill Connelly’s Five Factors of winning, and sacks are counted as pass plays. It doesn’t include the drives at the ends of the halves that ran out the clock.
Explosiveness
Everyone has a different definition for what counts as an “explosive play”, but I go with runs of at least ten yards and passes of at least 20 yards.