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College Football Teams 2008 Statistically Compared using cfbstats.com: Oklahoma vs. Texas

By Andis Kaulins

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The current college football rating system by popular polls should be scrapped. A review of football statistics this season shows this clearly. Too much emphasis is being placed upon a team going undefeated against weak opposition, rather than on hard football facts. We have already shown that USC is the much better team when compared to Alabama. Let us now compare Oklahoma and Texas. Since both have one conference loss, which team do the stats favor?

College Football Teams 2008 Statistically Compared by LawPundit using statistics from cfbstats.com:

Oklahoma vs. Texas
In comparing these stats consider that the Massey Ratings rank the Oklahoma schedule difficulty as the 6th most difficult in the country and the Texas schedule difficulty as the 4th most difficult. Sagarin at USATODAY.COM has the respective schedule difficulty as 17th for Oklahoma and 12th for Texas.

Parameter	Oklahoma (12 games)	Opponents	Texas (12 games)	Opponents	Advantage to
Scoring/game	53.3	24.8	43.9	18.6	Oklahoma
Points scored	640	298	527	223	Oklahoma
First Downs	322	229	319	218	Texas
Yards per Play Rushing	4.70	3.32	4.43	2.79	Texas
Rushing Yards	2429	1318	2123	883	Texas
Passing Rating	184.59	115.63	180.49	124.86	Oklahoma
Passing Yards	4251	2996	3594	3196	Oklahoma
Yards per play Total Offense	7.1	5.1	6.6	5.2	Oklahoma
Total Offense Yards	6680	4314	5717	4079	Oklahoma
Punt Returns Yards/Return	8.63	5.44	8.15	5.80	Oklahoma
Kickoff Returns Yards/Return	25.09	24.82	23.20	23.38	Oklahoma
Punting Yards/Punt	36.58	41.59	43.44	39.25	Texas
Interceptions	15	7	6	7	Oklahoma
Fumbles (No. - Lost)	13-2	33-14	14-6	24-10	Oklahoma
Penalties -Yards	92 - 802	80 - 545	75 - 673	87 - 725	Texas
3rd Down Conversions	49.4%	30.41%	57.05%	35.09%	Texas
Red Zone Success	94.37%	79.07%	90.63%	71.79%	Texas
Field Goal Success	60%	61.5%	76.9%	57.9%	Texas
PAT Success	94.4%	97.1%	100%	100%	Texas
					Advantage
					to Oklahoma
Final Totals					10-9