This covers 2018, 2019, and 2020 seasons. Overall record of 18-17.

I wanted to look at whether our Offense was able to score on long and/or sustained drives. Or to put it another way, how much of our scoring was helped by short fields from turnovers. For me, I counted a short field as starting on the opponent 45 yard line or less.

When the offense gets help with short fields from turnovers or good special teams (KO or punt returns):
- If the short field was in the first half of a game, overall record of 6-4
- If the short field was in the second half of a game, overall record of 5-1
- If we had a short field in both halves of a game, overall record of 5-1
- If we had no short fields in a game, overall record of 2-11

As a subset of the above data, if the Defense or ST got a TD, our overall record was 5-1 (with the one loss being the last second Notre Dame game in 2019).

Also, in the games where the offense was given a short field and/or a D/ST score, we averaged 33 points per game. In the games where we did not have any of that, we averaged 26 points per game.

Basically, without at least one turnover leading to a short field, our team does not win.

[Post edited by HokieAl at 11/24/2020 5:34PM]