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What is Happening on Third Downs this Year?

Normally I would be doing my ACC Check In but this week but since the conference races are basically already locked up I decided to take a little liberty with this week's post.

One of the things I have noticed in doing the weekly Advanced Box Scores is that we have struggled mightily this year at converting third downs. I wanted to do some digging on what might be causing those issues.

Quantifying Third Down Success

The most basic measure of third down success is how many first downs you convert out of all your third down attempts, aka third down conversion percentage.