With the Bearcats starting spring practice at the end of this month (February 27th) there is a bit of a ticking clock to give the 2014 season a thorough review, which I intend to do starting next week. Part of that process involved compiling the two tables you see below. The main reason being that helps to place the performance of a particular aspect of the Bearcats team, passing downs efficiency for example, in context both nationaly and in comparison with the rest of the conference.
Both tables below are listed in order of overall rank according to SB Nation's Bill Connelly's S&P+ rating system, a play by play based measure of efficiency and explosiveness. With S&P, much like offensive rating in basketball, a mark of 100 is almost perfectly average. The number in parentheses represents the conference ranking of a given attribute. A glossary of terms for these tables are available here, here and here.
Note: I have included Navy in this ranking even though they didn't play a down of AAC football for two reasons: 1) All of these numbers are opponent adjusted so this is not an apple and oranges situation vis-a-vis schedule its a pretty accurate indication of the relative strength of these teams. 2) I plan on using this information a lot throughout the off season in our preview stuff
| Offensive S&P | Rushing S&P | Passing S&P | Standard Downs S&P | Passing Downs S&P | Drive Rating | Success Rate | IsoPPP | |
| Cincinnati | 112.5 | 109.4 (3) | 130.0 (1) | 115.0 (2) | 138.1 (1) | 115.7 (3) | 45.0% (3) | .91 (2) |
| Navy | 111.5 | 120.6 (1) | 92.2 (6) | 116.7 (1) | 95.4 (6) | 117.0 (1) | 48.9% (1) | .87 (3) |
| East Carolina | 109.1 | 111.6 (2) | 107.3 (2) | 108.5 (3) | 115.3 (2) | 117.0 (1) | 47.1% (2) | .85 (4) |
| Memphis | 100.0 | 92.6 (7) | 102.8 (4) | 96.5 (4) | 102.3 (4) | 112.3 (4) | 39.7% (6) | .92 (1) |
| Central Florida | 97.2 | 93.8 (6) | 104.0 (3) | 94.0 (7) | 111.3 (3) | 103.0 (5) | 40.3% (5) | .85 (4) |
| Houston | 94.2 | 103.4 (4) | 80.4 (8) | 95.5 (5) | 83.2 (8) | 98.4 (7) | 41.3% (4) | .82 (7) |
| Temple | 89.8 | 90.3 (8) | 83.0 (7) | 92.2 (8) | 75.4 (10) | 99.6 (6) | 36.1% (8) | .80 (8) |
| Tulsa | 86.8 | 89.4 (9) | 99.9 (5) | 94.3 (6) | 97.3 (5) | 73.2 (11) | 39.0% (7) | .80 (8) |
| Tulane | 85.4 | 87.0 (10) | 77.4 (10) | 87.0 (9) | 73.5 (12) | 92.4 (8) | 35.5% (10) | .78 (10) |
| South Florida | 79.1 | 72.7 (12) | 80.3 (9) | 73.6 (12) | 87.0 (7) | 76.3 (10) | 33.6% (11) | .84 (6) |
| Connecticut | 78.9 | 79.7 (11) | 72.7 (11) | 76.5 (11) | 77.0 (9) | 80.0 (9) | 32.7% (12) | .78 (10) |
| SMU | 72.9 | 97.7 (5) | 70.0 (12) | 85.0 (10) | 75.3 (11) | 52.0 (12) | 35.8% (9) | .70 (12) |
| Defensive S&P | Rushing S&P | Passing S&P | Standard Downs S&P | Passing Downs S&P | Drive Rating | Success Rate | IsoPPP | Havoc Rate | |
| Memphis | 113.8 | 110.3 (1) | 106.9 (1) | 107.2 (2) | 112.6 (1) | 129.0 (1) | 35.4% (1) | .78 (6) | 17.8% (3) |
| Central Florida | 106.3 | 102.9 (4) | 96.7 (5) | 98.4 (5) | 103.9 (3) | 115.8 (3) | 38.4% (4) | .72 (1) | 20.0% (1) |
| Temple | 105.1 | 103.3 (3) | 106.9 (1) | 107.5 (1) | 104.5 (2) | 101.1 (6) | 37.6% (2) | .72 (1) | 17.6% (4) |
| Navy | 102.1 | 99.8 (7) | 99.9 (3) | 101.4 (4) | 102.7 (4) | 116.3 (2) | 46.7% (11) | .74 (3) | 10.6% (12) |
| East Carolina | 99.0 | 107.3 (2) | 82.2 (9) | 94.4 (8) | 85.3 (10) | 105.7 (5) | 38.3% (3) | .82 (9) | 15.4% (5) |
| Cincinnati | 97.9 | 90.8 (9) | 94.1 (7) | 96.9 (6) | 85.8 (9) | 108.3 (4) | 43.6% (8) | .81 (8) | 15.2% (8) |
| Tulane | 97.6 | 102.0 (5) | 99.1 (4) | 102.4 (3) | 95.4 (6) | 96.3 (7) | 41.7% (5) | .82 (9) | 18.4% (2) |
| Houston | 94.5 | 86.5 (10) | 94.3 (6) | 90.4 (10) | 93.6 (7) | 94.0 (8) | 42.1% (7) | .74 (3) | 15.3%(6) |
| Connecticut | 91.7 | 99.8 (7) | 93.1 (8) | 96.5 (7) | 98.2 (5) | 77.1 (10) | 41.8% (6) | .78 (6) | 12.6% (10) |
| South Florida | 88.3 | 100.7 (6) | 81.4 (10) | 92.0 (9) | 93.0 (8) | 78.7 (9) | 46.1% (10) | .75 (5) | 13.2% (9) |
| SMU | 79.7 | 76.3 (12) | 77.4 (11) | 78.4 (11) | 79.4 (11) | 75.7 (11) | 49.5% (12) | .98 (11) | 11.0% (11) |
| Tulsa | 78.7 | 76.5 (11) | 74.4 (12) | 76.9 (12) | 75.5 (12) | 75.3 (12) | 45.0% (9) | 1.12 (12) | 15.3% (6) |
