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Study Hall: Washington State 37, Arizona State 27

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Wazzu receivers Marquess Wilson and Isiah Barton: 20 targets, 15 catches, 378 yards, four touchdowns. That'll win you some games. Meanwhile, Arizona State's skid means that Utah, which began conference play 0-4, is still mathematically alive in the Pac-12 South race, three weeks after I gave up on them.

Washington State 37, Arizona State 27

ASU Wazzu ASU Wazzu
Close % 100.0% STANDARD DOWNS
Field Position % 62.3% 42.1% Success Rate 55.1% 46.3%
Leverage % 71.0% 71.1% PPP 0.40 0.48
S&P 0.952 0.945
TOTAL
EqPts 25.0 35.2 PASSING DOWNS
Close Success Rate 46.4% 42.1% Success Rate 25.0% 31.8%
Close PPP 0.36 0.46 PPP 0.27 0.42
Close S&P 0.826 0.884 S&P 0.519 0.735
RUSHING TURNOVERS
EqPts 5.1 4.1 Number 1 1
Close Success Rate 41.7% 19.4% Turnover Pts 4.9 4.5
Close PPP 0.21 0.11 Turnover Pts Margin -0.4 +0.4
Close S&P 0.629 0.308
Line Yards/carry 2.08 2.09 Q1 S&P 0.426 0.908
Q2 S&P 0.806 0.810
PASSING Q3 S&P 1.238 0.874
EqPts 19.9 31.1 Q4 S&P 0.945 0.947
Close Success Rate 48.9% 62.5%
Close PPP 0.44 0.78 1st Down S&P 1.146 1.104
Close S&P 0.931 1.403 2nd Down S&P 0.487 0.521
SD/PD Sack Rate 3.5% / 0.0% 3.9% / 0.0% 3rd Down S&P 0.616 0.962
Projected Pt. Margin: Wazzu +10.6 | Actual Pt. Margin: Wazzu +10

Quick glossary (complete with national averages) after the jump.

A Quick Glossary

F/+ Rankings: The official rankings for the college portion of Football Outsiders. They combine my own S&P+ rankings (based on play-by-play data) with Brian Fremeau's drives-based FEI rankings.

Field Position %: The percentage of a team's plays run in their opponent's field position. National average: 43%.

Leverage Rate: A team's ratio of standard downs to passing downs. National average: 68%. Anything over 68% means a team did a good job of avoiding being leveraged into passing downs.

Passing Downs: Second-and-7 or more, third-and-5 or more.

PPP: An explosiveness measure derived from determining the point value of every yard line (based on the expected number of points an offense could expect to score from that yard line) and, therefore, every play of a given game. National average: 0.32.

S&P: Think of this as an OPS (the "On-Base Plus Slugging" baseball measure) for football. The 'S' stands for success rate. The 'P' stands for PPP, an explosiveness measure that stands for EqPts Per Play. S&P is measured for all non-garbage time plays in a given college football game. Plays are counted within the following criteria: when the score is within 28 points in the first quarter, within 24 points in the second quarter, within 21 points in the third quarter, and within 16 points (i.e. two possession) in the fourth quarter. For more about this measure, visit the main S&P+ page at Football Outsiders. National average: 0.747. Standard downs S&P average: 0.787. Passing downs S&P average: 0.636.

Standard Downs: First downs, second-and-6 or less, third-and-4 or less.

Success Rate: A common Football Outsiders tool used to measure efficiency by determining whether every play of a given game was successful or not. The terms of success in college football: 50 percent of necessary yardage on first down, 70 percent on second down, and 100 percent on third and fourth down. National Average: 42%.