Since we are around the halfway mark in conference play I wanted to take a look during the conference at efficiency numbers.
Clearly Alabama has been the class of the SEC going undefeated. Then you got UT looking solidly as the second best team. Then you got Texas AM, Auburn and UF kind of in that 3rd tier with UK clearly behind those teams along with Arkansas. The rest of the SEC teams have been outscored in conference play.
One thing that surprised me was that UK is 2nd in the league in offensive efficiency. Unfortunately we are only 8th in defensive efficiency. We do have a favorable schedule coming up IMO which should help our numbers and move us close to that Auburn/TexasAM/Florida tier. We do get teams like Auburn, UT, Arkansas at home which will help somewhat.
But we absolutely have to get better on defense.
Team | OE | DE | Diff |
Alabama | 115.8 | 84.2 | 31.6 |
Tennessee | 108.4 | 86.1 | 22.3 |
Texas A&M | 109.1 | 95.9 | 13.2 |
Auburn | 108.3 | 98.9 | 9.4 |
Florida | 100 | 90.9 | 9.1 |
Kentucky | 109.3 | 106.7 | 2.6 |
Arkansas | 101.4 | 101 | 0.4 |
Missouri | 108.6 | 110.5 | -1.9 |
Georgia | 99.7 | 107.3 | -7.6 |
Mississippi St. | 91.1 | 99.5 | -8.4 |
Mississippi | 95.5 | 107.1 | -11.6 |
Vanderbilt | 104.3 | 117.6 | -13.3 |
LSU | 90.1 | 112.7 | -22.6 |
South Carolina | 91 | 115.7 | -24.7 |
Clearly Alabama has been the class of the SEC going undefeated. Then you got UT looking solidly as the second best team. Then you got Texas AM, Auburn and UF kind of in that 3rd tier with UK clearly behind those teams along with Arkansas. The rest of the SEC teams have been outscored in conference play.
One thing that surprised me was that UK is 2nd in the league in offensive efficiency. Unfortunately we are only 8th in defensive efficiency. We do have a favorable schedule coming up IMO which should help our numbers and move us close to that Auburn/TexasAM/Florida tier. We do get teams like Auburn, UT, Arkansas at home which will help somewhat.
But we absolutely have to get better on defense.