Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Bama Fans:

With wins over Michigan, W. Kentucky, Arkansas, Florida Atlantic, Ole Miss and Missouri, we are still undefeated halfway through our regular season. I thought I’d take this opportunity to do a (very) little review and (even less) analysis of Alabama’s statistical performance thus far.

First, the old-school stats [all old-school stats are taken from www.cfbstats.com]. I get a lot of tl;dr, and they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here you go…

To begin with, we’ll see how Alabama’s offense stacks up so far in several traditional categories (advanced stats to follow in a later installment, J):

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Now let’s take a look at the SEC defenses:

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And finally, let’s look at the relative defenses of the top 10 in FBS football in each of the following categories:

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As always, please not in comments other stuff you'd like to see, and please point out any mistakes you find.