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Week 6 Advanced Stats: The Big 12 Conference

Our weekly look at how the Big 12 is shaping up according to FootballOutsiders' advanced statistics.

By Mark C. Moore
David Purdy

A week ago, I started back up my regular feature focusing on how the Big 12 Conference stacks up in terms of FootballOutsiders' advanced statistics.  We're back again this week with updated statistics, and after all the feedback, I've decided to break things up again between overall, offensive, and defensive statistics.  I haven't quite worked out how to do sortable columns in the SB Nation editor, so that will have to wait.

Here are the charts. Again, all numbers are courtesy of the metrics at FootballOutsiders.com. Compare to last week's chart to see how things have changed.

Big 12 Conference by F/+
2013 RANKS Oklahoma Baylor
 TCU
 West Virginia
 Oklahoma State Kansas State
 Texas Iowa State Texas Tech Kansas
OVERALL:
F+/ S&P+ /FEI		 4 / 3 / 7
 9 / 6 / 16 18 / 17 / 20
 21 / 12 / 41
 25 / 30 / 21
 28 / 29 / 30
 54 / 50 / 55 62 / 59 / 59
 67 / 61 / 73 95 / 99 / 93
FEI Special Teams
 6 68 21 115 51 61 113
 49 35 67
FPA 13 10
 40 39 46 96 86 89 71 84

1. Oklahoma Sooners
2. Baylor Bears
3. TCU Horned Frogs
4. West Virginia Mountaineers
5. Oklahoma State Cowboys
6. Kansas State Wildcats
7. Texas Longhorns
8. Iowa St. Cyclones
9. Texas Tech Red Raiders
10. Kansas Jayhawks

Alabama's rise in the national rankings coincides with that of WVU in our conference rankings, since they are the only Big 12 team to have played the Crimson Tide this season.  The same goes for OSU and FSU's fall, since the Cowboys played the Seminoles in Week 1.  Once again, the Top 2 in our conference rankings were pretty easy to predict, but after that, things are starting to get really interesting.  TCU is easily the most improved team in the conference, and they play OU and Baylor over the next two weeks.  Baylor draws WVU in Morgantown two weeks from Saturday.

Big 12 Offenses
Offensive Categories
 OU Baylor
 WVU
 TCU
 KSU TT OSU
 ISU
 UT KU
F/+ Rk
 -- --
 -- --
 --
 --
 --
 --
 -- ---
FEI Rk 7
 9
 59
 46
 32
 38
 43
 64
 104
 123
FD Rk 38
 12 21
 5
 78 80

115

 104
 82 98
AY Rk 17
 3
 33 15
 24
 46
 78
 93
 110
 117
Ex Rk 12
 17
 51
 94
 20 41
 14
 109
 122
 100
Me Rk 99
 7 54
 76
 46
 109
 87
 13
 63
 73
Va Rk 16
 8
 34
 23 15
 65
 54
 100
 106
 120
S&P+ Rk
 9
 18
 4
 20
 46 42
 39
 34 73
 120
Success Rate
 22
 6 52
 1 16
 31
 87
 84
 86
 122
ISOPPP
 11 2
 62
 67
 64
 45

4

 122
 112
 55
Std. Downs S&P Rk 11
 2
 56 6
 18
 39
 62
 109 87
 123
Pass. Downs S&P Rk 24 1 59 26 51
 36
 4
 105
 96
 65
Rushing S&P Rk 8 11
 105
 1
 15
 37
 75 119
 87
 109
Passing S&P Rk 34
 1
 29
 32
 52
 36
 14
 89 100
 117

1. OU (9+7)/2= 8
2. Baylor (18+9)/2= 13.5
3. WVU (4+59)/2= 31.5
4. TCU (20+46)/2= 33
5. KSU (46+32)/2= 39
6. TT (42+38)/2= 40
7. OSU (39+43)/2= 41
8. ISU (34+64)/2= 49
9. UT (73+104)/2= 88.5
10. KU (120+123)/2= 121.5

The clump we had last week around 40 in the combined national rankings is back again, although WVU seems to have left the group behind a bit and risen into the 30s, where TCU joins them.  Tech has fallen from 3rd to 6th, probably because of what A&M did to their co-opponent, Arkansas.  There will be a lot of movement in these numbers over the next few weeks.  There always is.

The Big 12 has the #1 rushing and passing offenses by S&P in TCU and Baylor.  That's something.

Big 12 Defenses
Defensive Categories
 BU OU TCU
 UT KSU OSU KU
 WVU
 TT ISU
F/+ Rk
 -- --
 -- --
 --
 --
 --
 --
 -- ---
FEI Rk 5
 7 1
 6
 41
 50
 40
 92 112
 113
FD Rk 1
 41 11 31
 13 42

64

 40
 69 70
AY Rk 2
 11 3 19
 18 41
 46
 73
 101
 85
Ex Rk 18
 34
 1
 44
 9 93
 68
 82
 112
 98
Me Rk 11
 24 25
 69
 83
 9
 44
 93
 127
 120
Va Rk 4 11
 3
 22 6
 37
 12
 99
 112
 82
S&P+ Rk
 3
 5
 22 37
 16 21
 60
 23 88
 99
Success Rate
 1
 5 4
 56 31
 21
 17
 66
 110 127
ISOPPP
 4 76 3
 7 16
 107

94

 105 69
 49
Std. Downs S&P Rk 1
 8
 4 32 12
 30 35
 103 96
 126
Pass. Downs S&P Rk 3 22 4 37 30
 62
 11
 20
 118
 61
Rushing S&P Rk 1 6
 8
 84 9
 16
 29 95
 122
 126
Passing S&P Rk 2
 16 4
 9
 46
 50
 26
 54 59
 101

1. Baylor (5+3)/2= 4
2. OU (7+5)/2= 6
3. TCU (1+22)/2= 11.5
4. UT (6+37)/2= 21.5
5. KSU (41+16)/2= 28.5
6. OSU (50+21)/2= 35.5
7. KU (40+60)/2= 50
8. WVU (92+23)/2= 62
9. TT (112+88)/2= 100
10. ISU (113+99)/2 = 106

Not a lot of separation at the top of our defensive rankings, with good arguments to be made that any of the three (or four) top teams could actually be the best.  I'm not at all surprised to see TCU and OSU so high in the explosive drive rankings; they've both been doing that for years.  S&P+ and FEI do not agree in any way about WVU's defense, and I don't know what to make of that.

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This took long enough that I'm going to once again forgo the team-by-team notes as part of this post.  I will say, though, that OU-TCU takes on an entirely new look when you see that it's the #1 and #3 Big 12 teams, generally, and the #2 and #3 defenses, specifically.  BU-OU looks like a mismatch by comparison, mostly because UT's offense is the second-worst in the conference.

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