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An honest to goodness blowout, against an over .500 Big Ten opponent, on the road! We don't get a lot of those! And it couldn't have come at a better time, putting us back in the driver's seat for a slot in the Big Ten Championship game and a division title.
I'll have a thousand words or so on this some time Saturday night probably, but at time of posting it's very late, and I have the Indiana game to be at tomorrow. I'll try to provide some new, or otherwise interesting, analysis. Here's the raw boxscore for now:
| MSU 37. Iowa 21 | ||||||
| MSU | Iowa | MSU | Iowa | |||
| Close % | 86.21% | STANDARD DOWNS | ||||
| Enemy Territory % | 49.28% | 42.86% | Success Rate | 45.65% | 36.36% | |
| Leverage % | 66.67% | 57.14% | PPP | 0.372 | 0.294 | |
| S&P | 0.829 | 0.658 | ||||
| TOTAL | ||||||
| EqPts | 28.530 | 20.401 | PASSING DOWNS | |||
| Close Success Rate | 41.38% | 32.31% | Success Rate | 26.09% | 24.24% | |
| Close PPP | 0.447 | 0.265 | PPP | 0.496 | 0.226 | |
| Close S&P | 0.860 | 0.588 | S&P | 0.757 | 0.468 | |
| RUSHING | TURNOVERS | |||||
| EqPts | 8.643 | 6.895 | Number | 3 | 0 | |
| Close Success Rate | 43.33% | 30.43% | Points off turnovers | 14 | 0 | |
| Close PPP | 0.248 | 0.290 | ||||
| Close S&P | 0.682 | 0.594 | BY QUARTER | |||
| Q1 S&P | 1.083 | 0.665 | ||||
| Q2 S&P | 0.948 | 0.472 | ||||
| PASSING | Q3 S&P | 0.488 | 0.877 | |||
| EqPts | 19.887 | 13.506 | Q4 S&P | 0.655 | 0.349 | |
| Close Success Rate | 39.29% | 33.33% | 1st Down S&P | 0.866 | 0.631 | |
| Close PPP | 0.659 | 0.252 | 2nd Down S&P | 0.633 | 0.516 | |
| Close S&P | 1.052 | 0.585 | 3rd Down S&P | 0.942 | 0.565 | |
| Miscellanea | ||||||
| Big Plays | 6 | 2 | Yards Per Point | 11.97 | 16.62 | |
| Yards Per Play | 6.15 | 4.53 | Penalties | 7 for 75 | 6 for 39 | |
| Run-Pass | 55.56% | 38.96% | ||||