| Phil Steele Blog • June 16, 2017 |
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% of Yards Returning
Today’s blog continues my in-depth look at my NCAA Experience Chart. For eight years I had listed an experience chart, which broke down the number of seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen each team had in the two deep and rated the teams experience level with a formula I devised. In 2009, I made the experience chart FIVE TIMES better by adding new categories like Career Starts on Offensive line, % of Offensive Yards returning, % of Defensive Yards returning and % of lettermen returning.
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Today I will look at the % of yards returning. I took all of the yards each QB threw for as well as all of the individual rushing yards and receiving yards for each team. I then took all of the returning yards from 2016 and divided it into those for the percentage.
At the top of the chart is Troy. They return 8 starters from last year’s offense including their QB, top 7 rushers and top 7 receivers. They have 98.7% of their total yards returning from last year. They are followed by Florida Atlantic, who returns 9 starters on offense, their QB, top 4 rushers and top 3 receivers and 96.2% of their yards back. Other schools at the top of the list include: Wake Forest (95.5%), SMU (94.8%) and Vanderbilt (93.7%).
Last year the teams at the top of this chart were Louisville (8-5 to 9-4), Old Dominion (5-7 to 10-3), LSU (9-3 to 8-4), Georgia Southern (9-4 to 5-7) and SMU (2-10 to 5-7). Three of the top five improved their record while LSU and Georgia Southern did not.
At the bottom of the list of course is UAB. The Blazers (0.0%) is coming back after having no football program the last 2 years. North Carolina is next with 12.7%, Clemson (22.4%) and Nebraska (22.4%).
It is very interesting to note that defending national champ Clemson ranks low at #128 with 22.4% of their yards returning. Clemson has 5 offensive starters returning. They lose their QB, top 2 rushers and 3 out of their 5 top receivers.
I will be back Monday to take a look at another factor in my experience chart (% of tackles returning).
| NCAA | % YDS | NCAA | % YDS | |||
| Rank | Team | Return | Rank | Team | Return | |
| 1 | Troy | 98.7% | 66 | San Diego St | 66.4% | |
| 2 | Florida Atlantic | 96.2% | 67 | New Mexico | 66.2% | |
| 3 | Wake Forest | 95.9% | 68 | Texas | 65.7% | |
| 4 | SMU | 94.8% | 69 | Indiana | 64.4% | |
| 5 | Vanderbilt | 93.7% | 70 | Hawaii | 64.3% | |
| 6 | Iowa St | 92.7% | 71 | Utah | 63.7% | |
| 7 | TCU | 91.3% | 72 | Stanford | 62.6% | |
| 8 | UTSA | 91.0% | 73 | Michigan | 62.1% | |
| 9 | FIU | 90.7% | 74 | Southern Miss | 60.6% | |
| 10 | Memphis | 90.1% | 75 | Air Force | 60.3% | |
| 11 | Penn St | 89.9% | 76 | South Alabama | 60.2% | |
| 12 | Missouri | 89.6% | 77 | Virginia | 59.5% | |
| 13 | ULM | 89.1% | 78 | Boise St | 58.7% | |
| 14 | Kent St | 88.7% | 79 | Florida St | 56.8% | |
| 15 | Colorado St | 88.1% | 80 | Illinois | 56.5% | |
| 16 | Georgia | 87.1% | 81 | Rutgers | 55.8% | |
| 17 | New Mexico St | 86.6% | 82 | Boston College | 55.6% | |
| 18 | Miami, Oh | 86.3% | 83 | North Texas | 55.1% | |
| 19 | Arizona St | 85.0% | 84 | Arkansas | 55.0% | |
| 20 | Army West Point | 84.6% | 85 | Oklahoma | 55.0% | |
| 21 | Washington | 84.5% | 86 | Coastal Carolina | 54.3% | |
| 22 | Washington St | 83.7% | 87 | Georgia Tech | 53.8% | |
| 23 | Auburn | 83.5% | 88 | Kansas | 53.2% | |
| 24 | Duke | 81.6% | 89 | UTEP | 53.1% | |
| 25 | Massachusetts | 81.5% | 90 | Charlotte | 52.4% | |
| 26 | Eastern Michigan | 81.4% | 91 | WKU | 51.9% | |
| 27 | Georgia St | 81.1% | 92 | Old Dominion | 51.5% | |
| 28 | Northwestern | 80.9% | 93 | Buffalo | 50.2% | |
| 29 | Oregon St | 80.7% | 94 | Maryland | 50.2% | |
| 30 | Arkansas St | 79.9% | 95 | Wisconsin | 50.1% | |
| 31 | Kansas St | 79.0% | 96 | Ohio | 48.8% | |
| 32 | Alabama | 78.6% | 97 | Texas St | 48.5% | |
| 33 | Oklahoma St | 78.5% | 98 | Wyoming | 48.0% | |
| 34 | NC State | 78.1% | 99 | Central Michigan | 47.8% | |
| 35 | Utah St | 78.1% | 100 | Minnesota | 47.1% | |
| 36 | UNLV | 78.0% | 101 | Baylor | 47.0% | |
| 37 | Fresno St | 77.6% | 102 | Michigan St | 46.9% | |
| 38 | Mississippi St | 76.9% | 103 | Temple | 46.8% | |
| 39 | South Carolina | 76.0% | 104 | Houston | 46.5% | |
| 40 | Appalachian St | 75.9% | 105 | Texas A&M | 44.3% | |
| 41 | Florida | 75.0% | 106 | Notre Dame | 43.6% | |
| 42 | Middle Tennessee | 74.5% | 107 | San Jose St | 42.0% | |
| 43 | UCF | 74.3% | 108 | East Carolina | 40.7% | |
| 44 | USF | 74.2% | 109 | Texas Tech | 37.8% | |
| 45 | Purdue | 73.7% | 110 | Northern Illinois | 37.6% | |
| 46 | Ball St | 73.3% | 111 | Pittsburgh | 37.0% | |
| 47 | Syracuse | 73.1% | 112 | California | 34.6% | |
| 48 | Connecticut | 71.9% | 113 | West Virginia | 34.4% | |
| 49 | Nevada | 71.4% | 114 | Georgia Southern | 33.6% | |
| 50 | Idaho | 71.3% | 115 | Mississippi | 33.5% | |
| 51 | Tulane | 71.2% | 116 | Miami, Fl | 33.3% | |
| 52 | Ohio St | 70.9% | 117 | Western Michigan | 32.6% | |
| 53 | Arizona | 70.7% | 118 | Rice | 31.5% | |
| 54 | Louisville | 70.1% | 119 | Navy | 31.3% | |
| 55 | Bowling Green | 69.6% | 120 | Louisiana Tech | 30.6% | |
| 56 | Colorado | 69.4% | 121 | Iowa | 30.4% | |
| 57 | Akron | 69.1% | 122 | Louisiana | 27.1% | |
| 58 | Cincinnati | 68.7% | 123 | Tulsa | 27.0% | |
| 59 | UCLA | 68.3% | 124 | Tennessee | 25.7% | |
| 60 | USC | 68.3% | 125 | Virginia Tech | 25.6% | |
| 61 | LSU | 68.2% | 126 | BYU | 24.6% | |
| 62 | Oregon | 67.7% | 127 | Nebraska | 22.4% | |
| 63 | Kentucky | 67.5% | 128 | Clemson | 22.4% | |
| 64 | Marshall | 67.4% | 129 | North Carolina | 12.7% | |
| 65 | Toledo | 66.7% | 130 | UAB | 0.0% |
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