Notre Dame and Air Force Some Statistics and Rankings

Dead Falcon

First of all, let’s not get too cocky over zero turnovers in the Purdue game last Saturday.

Case in point:

**  Tommy Rees had two passes dropped by Purdue defenders.  One might have been a pick-six except the ball hit Purdue DB on the hands.

**  Michael Floyd fumbled and recovered the ball after a nice catch.

**  Tommy Rees and Jonas Gray fumbled a handoff that was recovered by Rees.

Notre Dame and Air Force are different as night and day.  Here are some miscellaneous statistics and rankings that bear this out.

Rushing Offense:

AF ranked 3^rd.

ND ranked 41^st.

Passing Offense:

AF ranked 113^th, 55 for 38, 596 yards, 69.1 completion

ND ranked 21^st, 196 for 125, 1347 yards, 63.8 completion

Net yards:

AF ranked 38^th, 2054 yards, 1458 rushing and 600 passing

ND ranked 15^th, 2245 yards, 898 rushing and 1373 passing

First Downs:

AF ranked 65^th, 93 first downs, 64 rushing, 25 passing, 6 on penalties

ND ranked 3^rd, 130 first downs, 45 rushing, 69 passing, 12 on penalties

Defense by Sacks and Interceptions:

AF ranked 40^th, 10 sacks and 5 interceptions

ND ranked 19^th, 13 sacks and 5 interceptions

Punting:

AF ranked 112^th, 12 for 511 yards and 38.4 net

ND ranked 83^rd, 19 for 708 yards and 37.1 net (Don't be fooled, Ben Turk is getting good/lucky rolls out of his rugby style punting)

Punt Returns:  (We already know this is dismal)

AF 4 for 50 yards, 12.5 avg.

ND 10 for 3 yards, .3 avg.

Kick-Off Returns:

AF ranked 77^th, 15 for 361 yards

ND ranked 37^th, 21 for 484 yards (Without George Atkinson’s touchdown run, this stat would be average)

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