The season's issues.
1. Penalties - 94 penalties for 833 yards, 69.42 penalty yards a game. This ranks us 6th worst in the FBS.
2. Dropped Passes- Leads the FBS with 41 dropped passes this season.
3. Red zone efficiency- ranked 104 in the nation with 36 red zone trips, 16 touchdowns and 12 field goals...only bowl eligible teams with worse red zone efficiency are Utah State, Miami (FL,) Missouri, BYU, FIU, Temple.
4. Passing Efficiency (a computation of passing attempts, completions, yards, Touchdowns and Interceptions)- ranked 104 in the nation. Only bowl eligible teams with a worse passing efficiency number is Kentucky, Wyoming, Michigan State and Nevada. This could have been much better if we didn't drop 41 passes, but still for a predominant passing team this is disturbing.
5. Rushing game- 113th in the nation in rushing yards and we are tied for the 7th worse team in rushing touchdowns.
6. Turnover margin: -4, not great....the only games all season where Pitt won the turnover margin was against UCF, Delaware, Duke and UNC
In HCPN 5th season the penalties are unacceptable. I was expecting our offense to struggle with a new OC this season and a completely different offensive mindset and losing 4 of our 5 starting OL and both of our starting RBs. That being said we are lacking significantly in the offensive playmaker department and our OL and OC cannot establish any sort of rushing game.
1. Penalties - 94 penalties for 833 yards, 69.42 penalty yards a game. This ranks us 6th worst in the FBS.
2. Dropped Passes- Leads the FBS with 41 dropped passes this season.
3. Red zone efficiency- ranked 104 in the nation with 36 red zone trips, 16 touchdowns and 12 field goals...only bowl eligible teams with worse red zone efficiency are Utah State, Miami (FL,) Missouri, BYU, FIU, Temple.
4. Passing Efficiency (a computation of passing attempts, completions, yards, Touchdowns and Interceptions)- ranked 104 in the nation. Only bowl eligible teams with a worse passing efficiency number is Kentucky, Wyoming, Michigan State and Nevada. This could have been much better if we didn't drop 41 passes, but still for a predominant passing team this is disturbing.
5. Rushing game- 113th in the nation in rushing yards and we are tied for the 7th worse team in rushing touchdowns.
6. Turnover margin: -4, not great....the only games all season where Pitt won the turnover margin was against UCF, Delaware, Duke and UNC
In HCPN 5th season the penalties are unacceptable. I was expecting our offense to struggle with a new OC this season and a completely different offensive mindset and losing 4 of our 5 starting OL and both of our starting RBs. That being said we are lacking significantly in the offensive playmaker department and our OL and OC cannot establish any sort of rushing game.