Quote Originally Posted by Professor Chaos View Post
The Bison were ballhawks this year. 15 INTs just from the trio of Cox, Grimsley, and Hendricks.

The opponent redzone TD% was in the 20s until SDSU and EWU went 3 for 3 converting redzone opportunities to TDs against the Bison defense in their last two games. With only 24 redzone opportunities allowed on the year (including those last 3) that was enough to bump it up a good amount.
Now that I look closer at this it sure seems that the style of SS play difference between Colten Heagle (2013) and Robbie Grimsley (2018) could explain a fair amount of the defensive stats. Heagle was a run stopper and pretty fair in pass coverage. Grimsley is the opposite. Both are consensus AAs to my knowledge and shaped each of their teams defense style