On Tuesday’s PFB podcast, Kyle asked an important question about how good a defense needs to be to win the Big 12. I thought I’d take a stab at answering it with Brian Fremeau’s points per drive statistics from bcftoys.com. He adjusts for end-of-half drives and garbage-time drives and scores.
The chart below plots the offensive and defensive points per drive figures for every Big 12 champ and OSU team since 2007. You want to be at the top right of this chart, meaning that you allow the fewest points per drive on the x-axis and you score the most points per drive on the y-axis.