Apples to Apples?

[daddyhoosier]

Ashton Jeanty was 28 yards shy of Barry Sanders single season rushing record. An amazing accomplishment but Sanders did it in 11 games and had 222 yards and 5 TDs in the Holiday Bowl that they didn't count towards his stats. (They didn't count the Bowls back then?)

So naturally I will adjust the numbers:

Jeanty 14 games:
2,601 yds (185.8 ypg, 6.95 ypc), 29 TDs (2.07 TDs/g)

Sanders in 12 games:
2,850 yds (237.5 ypg, 7.62 ypc), 42 TDs (3.5 TDs/g)

Again amazing accomplishment by Jeanty, I'm not throwing shade, but had he broken Barry's record this would have been my *yeah-but reply.

Reminds me of when Mike Davis' kid Antoine Davis played 16 seasons of college basketball and shot 178 3s per game and came within 2 or 3 points of passing Pete Maravich's career scoring record. There was an Internet war for a couple of weeks where throngs of deluded millennials tried to argue that Davis belonged in the same conversation as Pistol Pete...even though the Pistol only played 3 seasons at LSU and didn't have the 3-pointer.

Sanders to Jeanty is kinda apples to apples I guess but Maravich to Davis was apples to oranges all the way.

 

[DCDAVID]

The number of MLB, NFL, CBB, CFB, etc games played per season has skewed a number of stats/records.

 

[IUfan1957]

Ashton Jeanty was 28 yards shy of Barry Sanders single season rushing record. An amazing accomplishment but Sanders did it in 11 games and had 222 yards and 5 TDs in the Holiday Bowl that they didn't count towards his stats. (They didn't count the Bowls back then?)

So naturally I will adjust the numbers:

Jeanty 14 games:
2,601 yds (185.8 ypg, 6.95 ypc), 29 TDs (2.07 TDs/g)

Sanders in 12 games:
2,850 yds (237.5 ypg, 7.62 ypc), 42 TDs (3.5 TDs/g)

Again amazing accomplishment by Jeanty, I'm not throwing shade, but had he broken Barry's record this would have been my *yeah-but reply.

Reminds me of when Mike Davis' kid Antoine Davis played 16 seasons of college basketball and shot 178 3s per game and came within 2 or 3 points of passing Pete Maravich's career scoring record. There was an Internet war for a couple of weeks where throngs of deluded millennials tried to argue that Davis belonged in the same conversation as Pistol Pete...even though the Pistol only played 3 seasons at LSU and didn't have the 3-pointer.

Sanders to Jeanty is kinda apples to apples I guess but Maravich to Davis was apples to oranges all the way.

I believe this was the first top 20 defense Boise St faced all year. Talk about strength of schedule.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

Ashton Jeanty was 28 yards shy of Barry Sanders single season rushing record. An amazing accomplishment but Sanders did it in 11 games and had 222 yards and 5 TDs in the Holiday Bowl that they didn't count towards his stats. (They didn't count the Bowls back then?)

So naturally I will adjust the numbers:

Jeanty 14 games:
2,601 yds (185.8 ypg, 6.95 ypc), 29 TDs (2.07 TDs/g)

Sanders in 12 games:
2,850 yds (237.5 ypg, 7.62 ypc), 42 TDs (3.5 TDs/g)

Again amazing accomplishment by Jeanty, I'm not throwing shade, but had he broken Barry's record this would have been my *yeah-but reply.

Reminds me of when Mike Davis' kid Antoine Davis played 16 seasons of college basketball and shot 178 3s per game and came within 2 or 3 points of passing Pete Maravich's career scoring record. There was an Internet war for a couple of weeks where throngs of deluded millennials tried to argue that Davis belonged in the same conversation as Pistol Pete...even though the Pistol only played 3 seasons at LSU and didn't have the 3-pointer.

Sanders to Jeanty is kinda apples to apples I guess but Maravich to Davis was apples to oranges all the way.

Check the total number of attempts. It might make you change your thinking a little bit, if what I saw is accurate

 

[vesuvius13]

You have to be careful about comparing records since eras were so different especially in number of games played. Going by carries is more accurate today or go by game averages.

 

[bwcoach]

I believe this was the first top 20 defense Boise St faced all year. Talk about strength of schedule.

I’m not sure where Oregon’s D sits but they did play them within 3. I think they were ranked 13th. Could be wrong. But they would be the only team that had a decent D that BS played.

 

[Chriselli]

The number of MLB, NFL, CBB, CFB, etc games played per season has skewed a number of stats/records.

To be fair, baseball has been playing nearly an identical number of games since the early-middle 20th century. The couple fewer game disadvantage is more than offset my facing a pitcher four times per game and facing 85 mph heat.

 

[daddyhoosier]

Check the total number of attempts. It might make you change your thinking a little bit, if what I saw is accurate

I double-checked before I posted but I looked again, the carries are almost identical - Jeanty 374, Sanders 373. So Sanders numbers are still better.

You have to be careful about comparing records since eras were so different especially in number of games played. Going by carries is more accurate today or go by game averages.

I included yards per game (ypg) and yards per carry (ypc) in the stats provided. Total yards over attempts is how you calculate ypc so I did take attempts into consideration.

Sanders rushed against the Big 8 and Jeanty against the Groups of 5 Mountain West (primarily). So the argument that Sanders rushed against inferior competition is negated or at worst mostly negated. I definitely agree it is difficult to compare across eras but I also think it is a false assumption to say that more recent is better by default.