The Unbelievable Strategy Behind Indiana’s Stunning College Football Resurrection
But last year’s unit was bad enough (75th nationally in offensive TRACR) that Allen fired coordinator Walt Bell during the season before getting the ax himself. Indiana’s offense did nothing well. Defenses packed the box (a 50.6% bad box rate, fifth highest in the power conferences) to force quarterback Brendan Sorsby to beat them, and Sorsby rarely did.
This year’s offense, under Cignetti and his JMU coordinator Mike Shanahan, has been a revelation. Indiana leads the power conferences in success rate (52.9%), coming in sixth in that statistic on run plays and far-and-away No. 1 when passing. The offense is an almost perfect picture of run/pass balance (throwing the ball 49.3% of the time) and is quite a bit of fun to watch.

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