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Thank you for sharing this, I've done the same elsewhere.A new poster, AhmedDeaus, on Eleven Warriors had an issue I had not thought of- penalties. See copy and paste below-
I thought that Xichigan would have less need to jump offsides if they knew where the offense was going with the ball. I wasn't able to find the penalties by type on a quick search, but found something interesting on team rankings in terms of penalty yards per game. I hope the table format survives posting. :)
Year 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Alabama 28 60 118 118 108 128 59
Clemson 33 27 28 28 61 49 18
Georgia 88 56 49 49 32 35 19
Xichigan 86 101 50 50 18 3 1
NotreDame 48 33 65 65 49 25 85
Ohio St 115 127 75 75 89 44 51
I included the other teams as controls. Most of the major programs are in the middle of the pack (or lower) for penalty yardage against. But, Xichigan went from ranked #101 in 2018 to #18 in 2021 when they are alleged to have started their impermissible scheme, to #1 this year before the story broke.
They not only haven't had to jump offsides, but they don't need to hold if they know when blitzes are coming or commit pass interference if the safeties always know its a pass and don't ever bite on a play action fake.
I also created a visual:
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