Click here for linkThe conventional wisdom concerning the 2011 Alabama Crimson Tide attributes the team's success to a historically great defense supported by a better-than-average offense. And that's when the writer was being generous.
While the pundits slathered over the latest point-a-minute passing team racking up ungodly stats in some cut rate conference Bama's offensive attack was met with a resounding "meh" and the games were dismissed as a yawn-worthy puntfests. "Boycott the BCS National Championship Game because of boredom!" they cried.
Turns out that over the last two seasons, Alabama's offense has been the Crimson Tide's most productive in the modern era. Who knew? (Other than Tom Rinaldi, of course.)
Last year we here at Roll Bama Roll unveiled a public spreadsheet that tracks the Alabama Crimson Tide's raw defensive statistics for every game over the past half-century. This year we are doing the same for the offense. The Alabama Offensive Totals 1990-2011 is now posted and ready for your perusal. We'll be filling in prior years over the rest of the off season.
These stats are drawn primarily from the University of Alabama football archives but we rely on newspaper box scores to fill in the gaps. Like the defensive numbers, the tally is limited to the raw numbers that are available across the historical periods. While there is certainly much more detailed data at hand for contemporary seasons, the idea here is to get a reasonable comparison of the Alabama teams across historical eras...
Lots of tables, figures, and data...
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