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College Football Drive Efficiency (updated February 2021)


All non-garbage, regulation offensive drives in FBS vs FBS college football games from 2007 to 2020 are included in the data set summarized and broken down by starting field position, including the total number of drives, the average points scored per drive (PPD), the frequency rate of each drive start event, and the frequency rate of each drive end event.

 

 

Drive Start Events

  

Drive End Events
Span Drives PPD   KO Punt Fum Int Down FFG   TD FGA Punt Down Fum Int Saf Half
2007-20 232,307 2.14   .430 .387 .054 .059 .041 .029   .267 .130 .411 .051 .050 .076 .002 .012

 

 

FBS vs FCS Game Results (2007-2022)


Results include the number of FBS teams (Teams) that played at least one FCS opponent, the overall record of FBS teams against FCS opponents, the average points scored (PF) and allowed (PA) by FBS teams in the games, and the average FBS scoring margin (PM) in the games. Scoring margin distribution data include the percentage of games resulting in a dominant win by the FBS team by 25 or more points (DW), a strong win by 17-24 points (SW), a moderate win by 9-16 points (MW), a narrow win by 1-8 points (NW), a narrow loss (NL), a moderate loss (ML), a strong loss (SL), or a dominant loss (DL).

 

FBS Teams vs FCS Opponents

  

FBS Scoring

  

FBS Scoring Margin Distribution
Span Teams Games Record Pct   PF PA PM   DW SW MW NW NL ML SL DL
2007-22 129 1,590 1466-124 .922   42.9 14.3 28.6   .585 .142 .079 .116 .050 .010 .010 .008
 
Season Teams Games Record Pct   PF PA PM   DW SW MW NW NL ML SL DL
2007 78 80 70-10 .875   39.4 14.5 24.9   .438 .250 .063 .125 .075 .025 .013 .013
2008 82 87 85-2 .977   41.5 12.6 28.9   .563 .195 .115 .103 .011 .000 .011 .000
2009 87 94 89-5 .947   40.9 11.8 29.1   .596 .138 .064 .149 .032 .011 .011 .000
2010 85 90 83-7 .922   41.1 12.8 28.3   .589 .167 .056 .111 .078 .000 .000 .000
2011 93 97 91-6 .938   43.0 14.8 28.2   .577 .206 .031 .124 .031 .010 .000 .021
2012 101 108 98-10 .907   42.0 12.9 29.1   .620 .102 .093 .093 .046 .019 .028 .000
2013 106 111 95-16 .856   42.9 15.6 27.3   .541 .090 .117 .108 .072 .027 .027 .018
2014 103 108 100-8 .926   43.1 14.6 28.5   .583 .102 .093 .148 .065 .000 .009 .000
2015 102 105 96-9 .914   45.3 14.6 30.7   .610 .143 .067 .095 .067 .010 .000 .010
2016 109 113 103-10 .912   43.5 14.9 28.6   .593 .168 .071 .080 .080 .000 .009 .000
2017 98 98 89-9 .908   42.2 14.7 27.6   .551 .143 .133 .082 .061 .010 .010 .010
2018 109 112 105-7 .938   47.3 16.2 31.1   .643 .116 .080 .098 .045 .009 .009 .000
2019 109 114 111-3 .974   43.0 13.9 29.1   .596 .114 .088 .175 .018 .000 .000 .009
2020 31 36 34-2 .944   41.9 16.7 25.2   .500 .139 .111 .194 .000 .028 .000 .028
2021 115 117 105-12 .897   42.0 14.5 27.5   .598 .111 .060 .128 .060 .017 .017 .009
2022 116 120 112-8 .933   43.9 13.7 30.3   .650 .142 .050 .092 .033 .008 .008 .017

 

 

Games Played Between FBS Conferences in 2020
 
  ACC B12 B10 P12 SEC AAC CUSA MAC MWC SBC Ind
ACC - 1 2 0 3 2 3 0 0 1 3
B12 1 - 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 3 1
B10 2 0 - 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
P12 0 2 0 - 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
SEC 3 1 3 0 - 2 0 0 0 0 0
AAC 2 1 0 0 2 - 3 0 3 4 6
CUSA 3 2 0 0 0 3 - 1 0 14 10
MAC 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 0 0
MWC 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 - 0 3
SBC 1 3 0 0 0 4 14 0 0 - 8
Ind 3 1 0 0 0 6 10 0 3 8 -
 
FBS conferences include the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big 12 Conference (B12), Big Ten Conference (B10), Pac-12 Conference (P12), Southeastern Conference (SEC), American Athletic Conference (AAC), Conference USA (CUSA), Mid-American Conference (MAC), Mountain West Conference (MWC), and Sun Belt Conference (SBC). For the purposes of this table, independents (Ind) are treated as a distinct conference.