Daily Blog - Tuesday May 26th

Welcome to a brand new feature on the website. As opposed to making two long Weekly Notes versions, I will have a daily blog and try to pack as much information into it each day as I can. In this years 2009 which will be on the newsstands on June 9th, I made a brand new experience chart. The old chart had just the Seniors, Juniors, Sophs and Frosh from the 2 deep which analyzed the age of each team. I kept those numbers and also added in the % of lettermen returning, the % of yards offense returning, the % or tackles returning and the Career starts returning for the offensive line. A quick ananlysis shows Flordia with an AMAZING 98.9% of their tackles returning from last year and some other powers at the top of the list are Alabama at #6 with 85.1% back from their excellent D and Oklahoma at #15 with 79.8% back. At the bottom end of the scale, there are two teams that were in BCS bowls that return less than 50% of their tackles from last year (only 11 teams fall into that category) and they are USC at 46% and Cincinnatti at 34.5 with the Bearcats having just 1 returning starter on defense.

		% Tackle				% Tackle
		Return				Return
1	Florida	98.9%		61	Middle Tenn	66.0%
2	C Michigan	90.5%		62	Boston College	65.7%
3	N Texas	88.4%		63	Ohio University	65.7%
4	Buffalo	87.4%		64	Akron	65.4%
5	Ul Monroe (Ne)	87.3%		65	San Jose St	65.3%
6	Alabama	85.1%		66	Ball St	65.1%
7	Temple	83.9%		67	Notre Dame	65.1%
8	Toledo	81.9%		68	Florida International	64.2%
9	Baylor	80.8%		69	Ucf	63.6%
10	Vanderbilt	80.7%		70	Virginia Tech	63.3%
11	Iowa	80.7%		71	Idaho	62.8%
12	N Carolina	80.2%		72	Louisville	62.7%
13	Tulsa	80.1%		73	Wash St	62.4%
14	Rice	80.1%		74	Syracuse	61.7%
15	Oklahoma	79.8%		75	Nebraska	61.5%
16	Arkansas	79.4%		76	Rutgers	61.4%
17	Louisiana Lft	79.4%		77	Uab	61.3%
18	Smu	79.3%		78	Colorado St	61.0%
19	Arkansas St	79.1%		79	Utep	60.8%
20	Minnesota	78.0%		80	Air Force	60.6%
21	Stanford	77.8%		81	Kansas	60.4%
22	Fresno St	77.3%		82	Miami (Fla)	60.1%
23	Michigan St	75.7%		83	N Illinois	60.1%
24	Texas	75.6%		84	Michigan	59.0%
25	Lsu	74.4%		85	Army	58.5%
26	Nevada	72.8%		86	Ohio State	58.2%
27	E Carolina	72.5%		87	Colorado	58.2%
28	Washington	72.4%		88	Usf	58.1%
29	Marshall	72.1%		89	Texas A&M	58.0%
30	Clemson	72.1%		90	Troy	57.7%
31	Georgia Tech	71.9%		91	Wisconsin	57.5%
32	Memphis	71.5%		92	N Mexico St	57.5%
33	Indiana	71.2%		93	Oregon	57.3%
34	Northwestern	70.5%		94	E Michigan	57.1%
35	Kansas St	70.4%		95	Missouri	56.5%
36	Georgia	70.2%		96	W Kentucky	56.5%
37	La Tech	70.0%		97	Utah St	56.5%
38	Wyoming	70.0%		98	Penn St	56.1%
39	Purdue	70.0%		99	Tennessee	55.4%
40	Navy	69.7%		100	Pittsburgh	55.3%
41	Ucla	69.6%		101	Virginia	54.9%
42	Iowa St	69.6%		102	S Carolina	54.3%
43	Southern Miss	69.5%		103	Kentucky	53.7%
44	Arizona St	69.3%		104	New Mexico	53.7%
45	California	69.2%		105	Bowling Green	52.8%
46	San Diego St	69.0%		106	Illinois	52.5%
47	Texas Tech	68.9%		107	Houston	51.2%
48	Connecticut	68.8%		108	Duke	51.0%
49	Utah	68.5%		109	Maryland	50.6%
50	West Virginia	68.5%		110	Tcu	49.3%
51	Kent St	68.4%		111	Florida St	47.6%
52	Oklahoma St	68.1%		112	Miss St	46.6%
53	Auburn	67.7%		113	Usc	46.0%
54	Byu	67.5%		114	Miami Oh	44.8%
55	Arizona	67.1%		115	Oregon St	43.6%
56	Unlv	67.0%		116	W Michigan	40.8%
57	Boise St	66.5%		117	Wake Forest	36.3%
58	N Carolina St	66.3%		118	Florida Atlantic	35.5%
59	Tulane	66.1%		119	Cincinnati	34.5%
60	Mississippi	66.1%		120	Hawaii	24.6%