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.

WEEK 3 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.

This year teams who have scored a safety were 12-5 coming into Week 3.

SAFETY ALERTS

We had 3 safeties according to the data pull but I feel like I missed some of them or maybe it was a light safety week.

• William and Mary got a safety on Virginia while being down 55-14

• New Hampshire got a safety on Ball State to make it 34-26.

• NAU got a safety on Southern Utah to make it a 52-49 on the very last drive.

I didn’t have any videos on any of these safeties but I manually clipped them using very Sickos quality manual phone videos. Here are they on our YouTube. Also, added a Maryland safety from Week 1 we missed.

Also, enjoy all the ones we could get on YouTube from the weeks prior in the season.

Teams who scored a safety were 1-2 this week and now 13-7 overall on the year.

LONGEST SCORING DRIVE OF THE WEEK - TIME OF POSSESSION

Mizzou was taking care of the Cajuns and towards the end of the game, they just wanted to drain all the life out of the clock. They took this drive 17 plays for 73 yards in 10 Minutes and 43 seconds for their final score of the game.

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

Pioneer League member St. Thomas (MN) was playing against DII Northern Michigan in Week 3. Northern Michigan was down 6-0 but took their second drive of the game 17 Plays for 67 yards in 9 Minutes and 15 seconds. They got all the way down to the Tommies 10 yard line. Instead of kicking the field goal on 4th and 1, the Wildcats went for it but were stuffed for no gain ending the drive.

Northern Michigan fought hard and did lead 7-6 but the Tommies outlasted them and got the win 20-7.

BLOCKED PUNTS OF THE WEEK

Since we didn’t have many safeties, I thought I would pull the data to see who blocked a punt in Week 3.

• Alabama State

• Marshall

• North Texas

• SE Louisiana

• Lamar

• Tennessee Tech

• Maryland

• Eastern Washington

• Baylor

• Kansas State

• UMass

• Buffalo

• Notre Dame

• Rutgers with TWO and BOTH returned for a TD!!

Congrats to the teams who were able to block a punt in Week 3.

THE LONGEST PUNT OF THE WEEK

We had so many teams on Bye weeks in Week 3. We had about 1,000 less punts than what we were used to getting. Meaning we would get about 1500 punts per week each week so far this season in Week 1 and Week 2 but this week we only had 560 punts total in games involving Division I teams. We lost two thirds of our normal amount punts.

Now this leads us to the Longest Punt of the Week. Purdue was down 33-17 with about 40 seconds remaining in the game and decided to punt from deep in their own territory. USC did put a returner back but they chose to avoid the punt and not field it. The ball rolled for a 68 yard punt and was the Longest Punt of the Week.

Of course, no one clipped this video but US again.