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Georgia State 34, NMSU 32: Ladies and gentlemen, your first-place GSU Panthers

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Georgia State 34, New Mexico State 32

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Basics Georgia State New Mexico State Nat'l Avg
Total Plays 89 78
Close Rate (non-garbage time) 100.0%
Avg Starting FP 23.7 28.4 29.7
Possessions 15 14
Scoring Opportunities*
7 6
Points Per Opportunity 4.86 4.67 4.80
Leverage Rate** 78.7% 64.1% 68.3%
Close S&P*** 0.629 0.633 0.584
* A scoring opportunity occurs when an offense gets a first down inside the opponent's 40 (or scores from outside the 40).
** Leverage Rate = Standard Downs / (Standard Downs + Passing Downs)
*** When using IsoPPP, the S&P formula is (0.8*Success Rate) + (0.2*IsoPPP)
EqPts (what's this?) Georgia State New Mexico State
Total 51.4 48.9
Rushing 18.9 9.0
Passing 32.5 39.9
Success Rate (what's this?) Georgia State New Mexico State Nat'l Avg
All (close) 49.4% 39.7% 41.3%
Rushing (close) 42.2% 42.9% 42.5%
Passing (close) 56.8% 38.6% 40.1%
Standard Downs 51.4% 42.0% 46.8%
Passing Downs 42.1% 35.7% 29.6%
IsoPPP (what's this?) Georgia State New Mexico State Nat'l Avg
All (close) 1.17 1.58 1.27
Rushing (close) 0.99 0.99 1.06
Passing (close) 1.30 1.82 1.49
Standard Downs 1.11 1.66 1.10
Passing Downs 1.43 1.41 1.83
Line Stats Georgia State New Mexico State Nat'l Avg
Line Yards/Carry (what's this?) 3.51 3.20 2.80
Std. Downs Sack Rt. 3.1% 3.1% 5.1%
Pass. Downs Sack Rt. 0.0% 4.0% 6.6%
Turnovers Georgia State New Mexico State
Turnovers 3 1
Turnover Points (what's this?) 13.4 6.6
Turnover Margin New Mexico State +2
Exp. TO Margin Georgia State +1.18
TO Luck (Margin vs. Exp. Margin) New Mexico State +3.18
TO Points Margin New Mexico State +6.8 points
Situational Georgia State New Mexico State
Q1 S&P 0.695 0.963
Q2 S&P 0.598 0.511
Q3 S&P 0.663 0.607
Q4 S&P 0.528 0.672
1st Down S&P 0.605 0.589
2nd Down S&P 0.647 0.740
3rd Down S&P 0.602 0.562
Projected Scoring Margin: New Mexico State by 4.3
Actual Scoring Margin: Georgia State by 2

Hey, anytime someone wins their first Sun Belt conference game (after quite a few tries), they get the Study Hall treatment. That, and I wanted to share this line from GSU's recap:

Georgia State earned a 34-32 win at New Mexico State Saturday night to earn the program’s first Sun Belt Conference victory and move into first-place in the league.

FIRST PLACE, BABY.

(But seriously, GSU's passing game appears to be getting somewhere.)