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The Effect of Total Offensive Yards on College Football Game Win Probabilities

          Even someone who knows absolutely nothing about sports could tell you that “the best offense is a good defense.” This adage expands outside the realm of sports into the world of strategy and combat. However, if you compare the draft ranks and salaries of defensive players to offensive players in the National Football League (NFL), it could lead you to question this assertion. What about college football, though?          Show your brothers and your dad this data, and urge them to consider defensive players more heavily when making picks from the Fantasy Football draft next year. Our data proves and discovers that relatively, the defense preventing yards is more valuable for the game outcome than the offense gaining yards. Who would've thought? The tables below go into more detail on how much of an effect each single variable has on the game.          Formally, w e examine the effect of one particular key statistic, total offensive yards, on the outcome of a football gam