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Turnover Margin and Fumble Recovery in the SEC
While he was head coach at Auburn, John Heisman stressed the need to avoid turnovers. "Gentlemen," he told his Tiger team, "It is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football." More than a century has passed since he felt the need to admonish his squad but the importance of...
Alabama By the Numbers: Turnover Margin
If there was one single moment that defined the frustration of the 2010 season, it would have to be Mark Ingram's fumble in the second quarter of the Iron Bowl. As No. 22 barreled down the sideline it seemed the game, already 21-0 in Alabama's favor, would be put away completely. It wasn't to...
Skill v. Luck: why FSU should abandon the fumble drill
As football fans, we want to believe that everything is within the control of our team. Ideally, the final result would be a perfect net of the competitor's efforts. Unfortunately, not everything in football is skill. Like in life, football incorporates a certain amount of random events out of...
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