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Originally Posted by GoldenBears
Another nugget: Purdue has out YPP all 3 of their opponents by reasonable margins and is 0-3:
6.7 to 5.1 v Northwestern
7.2 to 6.4 v EMU
8.7 to 6.8 v Missouri
Those are big margins!!
Pretty rare to lose a game when you out YPP by that much
I feel like this is going to happen from time to time with a team who has almost no ability to run the ball.
By nature of the differences between running and passing, passing will have a higher YPA but a higher variance as well. Running will have much lower variance. So when Missouri has 46 carries at 5 YPC, and Purdue's ground game gains 42 yards on 16 carries, I'd argue that YPP isn't a great stat to display the relative effectiveness of each offense.
Edit: This would only explain the Mizzou game. Purdue ran for 341 yards on 42 carries against Eastern and still lost lol