The trenches
| Pass rush | sack rate | stopped behind the line | faces | sacks allowed | pairing |
|---|
| ILL pass rush | 1.1% 88135th | 6.5% 200116th | faces | — | — |
| pass rush | — | — | faces ILL | 3.2% 9431st | — |
sacks from CFBD play-by-play; college has no charted pressure, and these rates are not opponent-adjusted Measured on 7,926 team-games 2022–25: a college line's sacks-allowed rate carries +0.27 into its next game and a defence's sack rate only +0.10 — the line is most of this. The pairing predicts the game's sack rate +0.27, yards per dropback −0.16 and points added per play −0.15. Heaviest quarter of pairings against lightest: 7.8% vs 4.2% sack rate, 6.1 vs 7.2 yards per dropback.
null with the ball
| offence vs ILL defence | offence | ILL defence | rank gap |
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ILL with the ball
| ILL offence vs defence | ILL offence | defence | rank gap |
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| points added per play | 0.28428th | — | — |
| success rate | 0.51611th | — | — |
| explosiveness (points added on successful plays) | 1.27351st | — | — |
| rush: points added per play | 0.26120th | — | — |
| rush: success rate | 0.51816th | — | — |
| rush: explosiveness | 1.02245th | — | — |
| pass: points added per play | 0.32351st | — | — |
| pass: success rate | 0.52418th | — | — |
| pass: explosiveness | 1.47590th | — | — |
| standard downs: success rate | 0.56415th | — | — |
| passing downs: success rate | 0.38524th | — | — |
| line yards per rush (the O-line) | 3.45126th | — | — |
| rushes stopped at or behind the line | 0.11411th | — | — |
| short-yardage conversion rate | 0.667103rd | — | — |
| points per trip inside the 40 | 4.03763rd | — | — |
| havoc allowed (TFL, forced fumbles, breakups per play) | 0.11431st | — | — |
| havoc allowed by the front seven | 0.0457th | — | — |
| havoc allowed by the secondary | 0.069109th | — | — |
| average starting field position (yards from own goal) | 71.60048th | — | — |
Rank gap = the defence's FBS rank minus the offence's on the same measure: +60 means the offence ranks 60 places better than the defence it faces. Unit against unit only — college has no player charting to name a matchup by.