If continuity is at a premium this fall, these are the SEC teams that it will benefit from it — and those that won’t.

Does coaching continuity matter in the SEC? It depends, and here’s the data to prove it.

When Jim Chaney starts mashing the buttons and pulling the levers, offenses get better.

Now that we’ve established why and how much returning production matters, let’s take a look at this year’s results. First up, all the kits and the caboodles: Overall returning production The teams with the most overall returning production are Georgia Tech, Oklahoma State, and USC. Also notable toward the top […]

In analyzing teams for our annual Gameday magazine, we take a variety of factors into account. One of the core data points is a team’s “returning production,” the idea being that experience matters. Generally speaking, any given player should be better this year than last and should be much better […]

1. Clemson The 2018 National Champions nearly did it again last year but ran into a Bayou Buzzsaw wielded by Heisman Trophy-winner Joe Burrow in the 2019 championship game. Balance was the theme of the season for the Tigers with the offense putting up 529 yards per game and the […]

Pre-order our Gameday on Rocky Top 2020 preseason publication and get it before it hits the newsstands.

Last week we looked at the last 15 years of Tennessee’s SP+ data and found that the Vols’ 2020 projection in that metric would be a season most similar to 2009, 2012, and what became of 2016. The common thread in those years: you came to kickoff almost every single […]