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 9 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. Teams scoring a safety are Overall 37-18 this season! We’re about at the average of last year with a winning percentage of .673%

• LSU blocked a Texas A&M punt, which didn’t affect the Aggies at all.

• Ole Miss stuffs an Oklahoma run for a safety.

• Utah sacked Colorado's QB for an intentional grounding safety in an impressive first-half onslaught.

• The turquoise Lobos got a safety on Utah State in a win.

• Buffalo got a safety on a bad snap on a punt over the head, and the Akron punter ran to get it but couldn’t get it off in time!

• Eastern Washington got a safety in a win at Weber State.

• Alcorn State got a safety against Mississippi Valley State.

• North Dakota got a safety against our beloved Sickomores of Indiana State.

• San Diego scored one on Davidson on a sack.

• New Haven forced a loss of 9 for a safety on LIU.

Well, LSU, you were not the only losing team this week when scoring a safety. New Haven and Buffalo also lost their games this week. So this week, teams were 6-3 when scoring a safety. Overall, 43-21 for the season when scoring a safety.

I am going to apologize here, as I was traveling to the glorious Kibbie Dome, and I did not have time to do the safety compilation video right now, but I will get to it this week. Subscribe to our YouTube to find it.

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

Dartmouth was handling Columbia all throughout this game. They seemingly decided that 49 points were enough and took this drive 16 plays for 69 yards for 10 minutes and four seconds. This was their last score of the game and the cherry on top! 

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

It’s not often we get to give some love to Stonehill, but let’s do that this week. The Skyhawks were battling Mercyhurst and went on an adventure in the 4th quarter. Holding on to a 19-7 lead, they took nearly the entire 4th quarter on this 14-play, 77-yard, 9-minute and 7-second drive. They hit the 26-yard field goal with 2:52 remaining in the game and held off Mercyhurst’s comeback.

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

This is my favorite non-scoring drive. The others are more hilarious, but I really love it when a team decides, You are not getting the ball back, and we will end the game here. Nicholls was holding a commanding 31-7 lead on McNeese. They got the ball and took all the remaining 9 minutes and 53 seconds off the clock to kill off the game with this drive.

LONGEST PUNT OF THE WEEK - DIVISION I

Last week we had a tie with 78-yard punts. This week, we have another unprecedented happenstance for Longest Punt of the Week. We have ANOTHER TIE. We are going to have to buy another trophy for this split award! This week two punters TIED with 68-yard punts.

Daniel King of Southern Utah is a kicker by trade, but he had to punt and only got one chance against Utah Tech and made it count with a lovely bounce and roll. The returner was caught between catching and letting it bounce. Oh, did it bounce! And you can hear the commentators were upset by that choice.

Magnus Haines had a beautiful punt, and they pinned Eastern Michigan back at their own 2-yard line. If only it was the 1-yard line, Magnus could have won this one outright. Time to order another trophy….

Jayson Jenkins with his trophy we sent him for his longest punt of the Week in Week 8!

Here are both punts!

Thank you for reading! Sorry for the delays due to travel but don’t worry I will have a long write up about it coming soon, hopefully this week!