NC State Football: Looking at the Pass Defense

Posted: 8/12/2009 5:45:01 PM

On the heels of the Jimmaul Simmons news, JP Giglio noted that there wasn't much in the way of good passing offenses in the ACC last season, and that that figures to be true again in 2009, so it's no time to panic. Fine, fine. *slowly backs away from ledge*

But while no ACC offense finished in the top 50 nationally in passing, a number of them performed like top 50 passing offenses against NC State, and about three quarters of State's opponents had above-average passing days.

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	Vs. NCSU				Vs. Everyone Else
Opponent	Comp%	PassYds	Yds/Att	..........	Comp%	PassYds/G	Yds/Att
USC	63.0	198	7.3		54.6	224.5	6.3
Clemson	71.4	262	9.4		61.3	214.2	6.9
ECU	59.4	210	6.6		59.2	214.3	7.2
USF	63.6	275	8.3		62.6	236.7	7.6
BC	66.7	428	8.4		50.1	157.2	5.1
FSU	65.7	254	7.3		53.4	187.7	6.4
Maryland	45.0	126	6.3		57.5	213.4	6.8
Duke	71.2	317	6.1		58.9	186.8	5.7
Wake	64.7	240	7.1		63.1	182.5	6.5
UNC	50.0	147	5.3		57.5	203.1	8.3
Miami	65.6	269	8.4		57.0	190.8	6.0
Rutgers	57.9	319	8.4		60.5	266.3	8.5