Introducing the Addazio Ratio

Ty and Dan on the Solid Verbal have been joking at times this fall about how bad the Boston College offense is by pointing out that the team doesn't have that many more pass completions than punts. While BC does run the ball a lot, it's not like it's a triple option team. The Eagles have 248 pass attempts on the year; Army and Navy have a combined 212.

It's been fun listen to them monitor it, so I decided to name pass completions-to-punts the Addazio Ratio and run it back for ten seasons. The 2015 stats aren't final since bowl games haven't happened yet, but this is all completely not serious anyway, so I don't care.

Generally, the higher the Addazio Ratio, the better. It's different for the triple option teams, of course, since they so rarely even attempt passes. In fact, ten of the lowest 11 Addazio Ratios since 2006 came from Army and Navy. The 2008 and 2015 Army teams even managed a ratio of under one, meaning they had more punts than completions. The one exception in the top 11 is, of course, Steve Addazio. His 2015 Boston College team had 110 completions and 92 punts for a ratio of 1.20. That's good for ninth place overall.

Here are the ten lowest Addazio Ratios for the past ten seasons, excluding triple options teams like the service academies, Paul Johnson's Georgia Tech, and Georgia Southern.

Maybe this should be called the Addazio-Davie Ratio, since Footbaw Bob is in the second, third, and seventh spots. Anyway, look at Jim Tressel interim Luke Fickell's Buckeyes sliding in there at the tenth spot.

Here are the highest Addazio Ratios of the past ten years. This table has lots of Mike Leach.

The coaches here are June Jones with his Hawaiian Run 'n Shoot, Leach and his Air Raid at Texas Tech and Wazzou, Kevin Sumlin and his Air Raid at Houston, Hal Mumme and his 2006 NMSU Air Raid, and Gary Pinkel's Chase Daniel-era spread. The next three teams are 2012, 2006, and 2009 Texas Tech, the latter two being Leach teams again.

And finally, I couldn't finish without cataloguing all of the Addazio Ratios that Steve Addazio himself has had as either offensive coordinator or head coach. He's remarkably consistent when not under the influence of Urban Meyer.