On ESPN College Football Game Day from the Memorial Quad in Eugene, Pat McAfee proved again you can use statistics to misrepresent anything.

McAfee told the live crowd and the national TV audience, "This Oregon defense has DUDES everywhere. Their numbers are excellent everywhere except for in the Red Zone. For some reason they haven't been able to keep people out of the endzone."

What he said was superficially correct, but misleading. He left out the most telling, informative part. The Oregon defense has allowed opponents to REACH the Red Zone just six times, the second fewest Red Zone attempts allowed in the country. What's more, three of those came late in games against the third team defense.

The Ducks rank sixth in the country in scoring defense at 12.2 points per game, 11th in yards per play at 4.16. They've been tough in every part of the field.

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On ESPN College Football Game Day from the Memorial Quad in Eugene, Pat McAfee proved again you can use statistics to misrepresent anything.

Thanks for providing that...as context is crucial. Maybe this could provide a little bulletin-board material for Tosh today?

Yeah, first question I asked myself when he said that was, how many red zone trips have there been? Thanks for the info.

Guessing it was more of an ignorant take from someone that doesn’t ever prep. The bigger disappointment to me is no one else on the crew calling it out. 6 red zone trips in total almost half-way through the season is an absurdly good stat.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by JabbaNoBargain

Immediately as well, I thought, wait, how many red zone trips have the Duck defense faced this year so far?

Went to the NCAA site but the search query comes back "No stats available." So had to dig elsewhere.

Probably some intern tasked with finding a stat for McAfee to look well informed, when the intern really didn't really have the full knowledge to interpret the number? McAfee didn't bother to look further either; but, you know, entertainer and all.

Looking else where, you find:

Redzone defense scoring conversions allowed:

#127 (tie) Indiana 100%

#127 (tie) Oregon 100%

#127 (tie) Missouri 100%

#127 (tie) Utah 100%

#127 (tie) Utah State 100%

#127 (tie) Oregon State 100%

#127 (tie) Virginia Tech 100%

#127 (tie) South Alabama 100%

#127 (tie) Rice 100%

#127 (tie) Charlotte 100%

However, fewest redzone scoring attempts per game allowed:

#1 Indiana: 0.8

#2 (tie) Oregon: 1.3

#2 (tie) Utah: 1.3

#4 Oklahoma 1.5

I would say this would be more the proper way to present this stat? I mean, why single out it as a negative for Oregon when Indiana has the exact same number and rating?

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by AnotherOD

I wish I was Pat McAfee's hair product salesman. Kaitlyn Olson was right when she referred to him as an "oaf' on the Gameday set last season.

2 minutes ago, idontrollonshobbas said:

I wish I was Pat McAfee's hair product salesman. Kaitlyn Olson was right when she referred to him as an "oaf'

I always think about that horrible McAfee "trial" antivirus you have to immediately remove when cleaning up a "non tech savvy" family member or friend's pc: "Your pc is infected." "Did you know your pc is infected?" "Aren't you going to do something?" "C'mon man, can't you see you are infected!" "How many times do I need to tell you that you are infected?" 🙂