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Welcome back to the Sickos Stats Summary!

If you missed this last year and the explainer, this year at the Sickos Sentinel, we’re going to bring you something called the Sickos Stats Summary. It’s basically going to be weird stats on different things we found that we don’t think get a lot of attention. We will make some graphics every week and try to give you a few amounts of stats that are unconventionally appealing or things that don’t get highlighted much.

Do I know how many stats will be in each weekly post? Nope.

Also, if I miss something on these, feel free to yell at me to correct. I am nowhere near perfect and data pulls miss things sometimes 🙂

WEEK 8 SAFETY ALERTS FOR GAMES INVOLVING DIVISION I TEAMS

In 2024, we started tracking records of people who scored a safety on their opponent. Last year teams who scored a safety were 58-29 on the year. A winning percentage of .666%. So, we wanted to track them again.

Overall 31-18 this season this season when scoring a safety. I wonder if the rash of intentional safeties is skewing this number???

We had some really good and strange safeties this week! It was awesome and I hope didn’t miss any! If not, yell at me like always, I won’t get mad and will try to update this as soon as possible. This is mostly a manual process since not many people care about safeties like we do here. Hell most of the safety clips, I have to get myself.

• Southern Miss got a safety on the Ragin’ Cajuns in a strange way. They caused a fumble on the Cajuns’ QB Lunch Winfield, the ball bounced around and was picked up by a Cajuns running back who ran for 2 or 3 yards. However, the rule was if you fumble in the end zone, you have to be the once to advance it, so it was ruled a safety. It is the first safety in our compilation.

• Oklahoma got a safety with the rare pooch punt by the Quarterback John Mateer downed at the one and then the defense got an immediate safety right after.

• William and Mary got a Safety on Elon. But I cannot find a video anywhere and our FloSports subscription expired.

• Miami (OH) got a safety when Eastern Michigan snapped the ball out the end zone over the punter’s head.

• Alabama got a safety after an intentional grounding by Tennessee.

• Virgina got the rare Game Winning safety on Wazzu. They got the safety with about 2 minutes left and were able to run out the clock from there.

We had a PERFECT 6-0 Safety Weekend! Everyone who got a safety won their game! Overall 37-18 this season! (I hope I didn’t miss one to ruin the perfection)

HERE IS THE SAFETY COMPILATION ON OUR YOUTUBE

LONGEST SCORING DRIVE OF THE WEEK - TIME OF POSSESSION - TOUCHDOWN

We go to MACtion for the award this week. The Redhawks got the ball back on their own 34 yard line after an Eastern Michigan punt. They methodically worked their way down for a touchdown, converting a 4th and 1 on their own 43 yard line, then converting a 3rd and 15 with a 16 yard pass. Masterful work for the Redhawks.

LONGEST SCORING DRIVE OF THE WEEK - TIME OF POSSESSION - FIELD GOAL

The UT Martin Skyhawks opened the game against Gardner-Webb in a conference match-up and had to settle for a 37 yard Field Goal to take a 3-0 lead after a drive took 9 Minutes and 35 seconds.

LONGEST NON-SCORING DRIVE OF THE WEEK - TIME OF POSSESSION

Normally, I break down this one with a turnover on downs or punt but not this week. Nothing came close to this drive Time of Possession wise and didn’t score. I think the nearest non-scoring drive was about 3 or 4 minutes shorter than this one. Nothing within 2 minutes. Army opened the game against Tulane. The Green Wave forced a sack on 2nd down but Army got 7 yards back on 3rd down and settled for the field goal attempt. It was missed and this was your record for the week of non-scoring drives. This game itself was bananas and phenomenal TV.

LONGEST PUNT OF THE WEEK - DIVISION I

Last week we had a submission from a DII team and it was a longer punt by anything else I could find. This week, we have another unprecedented happenstance for Longest Punt of the Week. We have a TIE. First time this ever happened and of course, when we start giving out trophies for the award. One was a net punt of 58 due to the touchback and the other was a net punt of 66 due to the return. I feel like Robert Morris should have downed the punt at the 1 yard line. I guess I am going to have to order another trophy here for one of them.

Here are BOTH 78 Yard Boots on our YouTube!

NCAA RECORD ALERT!!!

Shout out to Monte Quinn of Division III Curry College. He set the all time NCAA Record WITH ONLY 20 CARRIES IN A GAME. He carried the ball 20 times, and eight of them went for more than 25 yards. His school-record seven touchdowns came on runs of 85, 84, 76, 64, 58, 30 and 2 yards. AN AVERAGE OF 26.1 YARDS PER CARRY. The school he did this against was Nichols College who gave up 93 points to Coast Guard in a game earlier this year.

Quinn became the first college football player in recorded history to rush for more than 500 yards in a game.

The previous Division III record was 465 yards by Cartel Brook of Heidelberg (Ohio) in 2013. Other NCAA records are 425 by South Dakota Mines' Connor Silveria (2018) in Division II, 437 yards by North Carolina A&T's Maurice Hicks (2001) in the Championship Subdivision and 427 yards by Oklahoma's Samaje Perine (2014) in the Bowl Subdivision.

The NAIA record is 409 yards by Eastern Montana's Derrick Williams in 1976.

Here is some video from the game in an ESPN Article.

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