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Study Hall: Kansas State 17, Texas 13

I just can't get over the fact that KSU gained 121 yards and won. They gained 76 yards on their two touchdown drives ... and 45 (in 41 plays) the rest of the game. AND THEY WON. AGAINST TEXAS.

Kansas State 17, Texas 13

K-State Texas K-State Texas
Close % 100.0% STANDARD DOWNS
Field Position % 44.6% 31.1% Success Rate 23.5% 39.2%
Leverage % 60.7% 68.9% PPP 0.20 0.20
S&P 0.439 0.597
TOTAL
EqPts 10.1 12.0 PASSING DOWNS
Close Success Rate 25.0% 33.8% Success Rate 27.3% 21.7%
Close PPP 0.18 0.16 PPP 0.14 0.07
Close S&P 0.430 0.499 S&P 0.416 0.283
RUSHING TURNOVERS
EqPts 5.3 7.6 Number 0 2
Close Success Rate 20.6% 31.7% Turnover Pts 0.0 10.0
Close PPP 0.16 0.19 Turnover Pts Margin +10.0 -10.0
Close S&P 0.363 0.503
Line Yards/carry 1.54 2.57 Q1 S&P 0.236 0.499
Q2 S&P 0.517 0.292
PASSING Q3 S&P 0.523 0.756
EqPts 4.7 4.3 Q4 S&P 0.416 0.478
Close Success Rate 31.8% 36.4%
Close PPP 0.22 0.13 1st Down S&P 0.210 0.393
Close S&P 0.534 0.495 2nd Down S&P 0.458 0.498
SD/PD Sack Rate 16.7%/25.0% 0.0% / 7.1% 3rd Down S&P 0.607 0.695
Projected Pt. Margin: Kansas State +8.1 | Actual Pt. Margin: Kansas State +4

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%.