VT/UVA "After Duke" Stat Comparison

I made a comment about Hale's tweet that had best Passer Rating since Oct 1. I was amazed to see Hooker on the list and I've got literally nothing to do at work so I dove into stats since that date for both UVA and VT offense and defense. I don't want to steal BTAN's thunder and I shouldn't because those big picture and adjusted stats are extremly important but the question of "AD what do we look like" always comes up and this is a quick way to compare.

Let's start with Defense.

Passer Rating - Defense

Teams seemingly wanted to air the ball out on us with 100 more passing attempts. Those extra 100 attempts only lead to about 90 more yards. We're managing to let up a couple more touchdowns but more importantly doubling up on the INT category. The VT defense on the Wake, GT, Pitt games shines here.

Rushing Defense.

There's not too much to look at here. I mean you can again see that trend from Miami through Pitt with how our defense has been getting better. Miami's numbers are going to be skewed a bit here as they ended up having to go air raid vs VT. The number I was most impressed with was rushing TDs our defense has scored as much as they've allowed teams to score on the ground.

Now to flip the coin over to offense.

Passer Rating - Offense

There are significant discrepancies when comparing these two. Obviously the Passer Rating but Hooker has 1 more touchdown and 4 less INTs on 148 less attempts. ND game isn't listed there and I know that add 2 INTs to Perkins total but it actually improved his Passer Rating from 129.45 to 131.44

Rush Offense

There are two things that jump out at you when you go through the box scores of these games. 1 Perkins was almost always the leading rusher. 2 we have a ton of ball carriers every game. The ND game really sticks out for UVA, these are non-sack rush yards and they had Perkins and -26 yards, UVA's completion percentage was the only thing that made that game close. For VT we've been steady you can see we struggled against the two noteable D-Lines we've faced in ND and Pitt.

Obviously take all of this with a hunk of salt. UVA has a very good set of Linebackers and a deep set of WR threats. Their special teams especially on the return game has also been great. I hope you enjoyed my random ramblings, this is how I spent my morning of work.

**Notes:
I added Notre Dame for UVA as they were a game short and it was a common opponent.
For Passer Rating- Offense I only used starting QB.
There's a decent chance I fat fingered a number somewhere but I've yet to find it.
Sorry that UVA over time trends are hard to read. With a shared static table I needed to pick between trend or common opponents.