Projecting 2016 Ohio State Buckeye Offense Stats

ShareTweet July 4th weekend has passed and we are in the home stretch to college football season.  In a little more than a month, teams across the nation will begin their fall workouts in preparation for the upcoming season.  Football season brings with it a fantasy world where people sit around and come up with their own projections on how the season will go.  Today I set out to come up with an offensive production projection for the 2016 Buckeyes. Now to be up front, my formula was made up by me and was meant to be more on the safe side.  With that said, I realize there will be massive holes in my logic.  Here is how it went: I looked at each team on the schedule this year and what their defensive averages per game were last year. The stats I looked at were rushing yards allowed, rushing touchdowns allowed, passing yards allowed, and passing touchdowns allowed. I then took into account how many starters the team had returning on defense. If the team had one to five starters returning, I would add 25 total yards for the Buckeye offense.  If the team had six to eight returning starters, I would keep the stats at average.  If they had more than eight returning starters on defense, I would subtract 25 total yards.  (I removed this advantage against Penn State and Wisconsin in an attempt to give night games at these two stadiums the respect they deserve) I then put a blanket Buckeye addition to the offensive numbers of adding 20 passing yards and 10 rushing yards per game. I…

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