Week seven created one of the great all-time box scores in college football history.
What else did it create? Find out below:
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The games we surveyed from week seven:
Missouri-Georgia
Boise State-Utah State
UCLA-Stanford
Auburn-Kentucky
Cincinnati-BYU
Virginia Tech-Miami
Pittsburgh-Georgia Tech
Rutgers-Indiana
USC-Notre Dame
Oregon-Washington
West Virginia-Baylor
Iowa-Northwestern
Ole Miss-Memphis
Florida-LSU
Michigan State-Michigan
Arizona State-Utah
Alabama-Texas A&M
Louisville-Florida State
Air Force-Colorado State
Oklahoma-Kansas State
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20 statistics to emerge from these 20 games in week seven:
20) Teams with more first downs went 15-3 in these 20 games, with two statistical ties.
19) Boise State gained five more first downs than Utah State in a game it lost by 26.
18) Michigan State gained 10 more first downs than Michigan, double the Wolverines’ total (20-10), in a game it was 10 seconds away from losing.
17) Missouri gained as many first downs as the number of points it scored versus Georgia: 6.
16) Stanford and UCLA finished with 19 first downs apiece in a game Stanford led, 56-20, after three quarters.
15) Teams with more yards went 15-5 in these 20 games.
14) Baylor gained 693 yards, and yet was just 4 of 13 on third downs. The Bears were 4 of 5 on fourth downs.
13) Utah State outgained Boise State by one yard, essentially a statistical dead heat, in a game it won by 26.
12) Michigan State outgained Michigan by 156 yards in a game it was 10 seconds from losing.
11) UCLA outgained Stanford in a blowout loss.
10) Teams with more passing yards went 13-7 in these games.
9) Teams with more rushing yards went 15-5 in these games.
8) Georgia Tech rushed for 376 yards… and lost to Pittsburgh.
7) Teams with more penalties went 9-9 in these games, with two statistical ties. If you comb through the stats, several teams — a majority of the nine teams which won despite committing more penalties than the opposition — committed at least nine penalties.
6) Utah State committed eight more penalties than Boise State and still crushed the Broncos.
5) Teams with more turnovers went 2-17 in these games, with one statistical tie; the two winners were BYU (vs. Cincinnati) and LSU (vs. Florida).
4) Teams with more time of possession went 14-6 in these games.
3) Iowa, Memphis, and Georgia all established time-of-possession advantages of at least 14 minutes and 46 seconds.
2) Virginia Tech finished with a time-of-possession advantage of over six minutes against Miami, despite a minus-four turnover differential.
1) Utah State, Baylor, Stanford, Oklahoma, LSU, Notre Dame, BYU, Utah, Florida State, Rutgers, and Indiana all scored at least 20 points in a quarter in these games.
From the group above, Utah State, LSU and Indiana all scored 28 points in a quarter. Indiana lost its game.
Stanford and Rutgers scored 20 or more in two quarters, not just one.
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Mikhail Palekar provided research which contributed to this report.
