College football is a vast and intricate web of human decisions. Each play, each pass, each tackle is the result of the confluence of a dozen decisions by a couple dozen actors on multiple dimensions. To understand football requires, at its base, a broad comprehension of the sum of those decisions - who did what and how did the ball get where. That starts with the final score and drills down to drive and play level data.
In a conference known for offense, few aspects of the game garner more scrutiny than the strategy and execution of each team in their attempts to move the ball downfield.