MU Rushing Offense- #87 SMU Rushing Defense- #83
SMU Rushing Offense- #104 MU Rushing Defense- #78
MU Passing Offense- #75 SMU Passing Defense- #87
SMU Passing Offense- #22 MU Passing Defense- #68
MU Total Offense- #97 SMU Total Defense- #91
SMU Total Offense- #60 MU Total Defense- #76
MU Scoring Offense- #101 SMU Scoring Defense- #91
SMU Scoring Offense- #56 MU Scoring Defense- #37
MU Passing Efficiency- #97 SMU Passing Eff. Defense- #35
SMU Passing Efficiency- #56 MU Passing Eff. Defense- #43
MU Redzone Offense- #83 SMU Redzone defense- #44
SMU Redzone Offense- #22 MU Redzone Defense- #9
Turnover Margin- MU #90 SMU #51
Time Of Possession- MU #21 SMU #23
Against CUSA opponents-
MU allows 17 points per game.
SMU is scoring 29 points per game.
SMU allows 27 points per game.
MU is scoring 24 points per game.
Marshall's(3-3) average margin of victory in the conference is 17 points. Our average margin of defeat is 4 points. SMU(5-1) is winning by an average of 6 points and lost to Houston by 23 points.
Marshall is 1-0 and SMU is 2-0 in cross-divisional play.
Against common opponents SMU has beaten UAB 35-33, ECU 28-21 and UTEP 35-31 and still has to play Tulane. Marshall has beaten UAB 27-7, Tulane 31-10 and lost to ECU 21-17. We still have to play UTEP.
Marshall allows 219 yards per game passing. When SMU throws for 219 or more yards they are 5-0. Less than 219 yards and they are 0-1. Only UAB(232) and UCF(342) have thrown for more than 219 yards against Marshall and we split those games.
Marshall averages 126 yards rushing a game. SMU allows 162 yards per game. When we run for more than 100 yards we are 3-1, less than 100 we are 0-2. When SMU allows more than 126 yards per game they are 3-1.
When Brian Anderson has thrown for more than 300 yards we are 1-1.