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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/2Pollaski2Furious on 2025-09-05 22:06:33+00:00.
The WACBall threshold is simply a way of measuring how much offensive potency a given football game has. Named in honor of the Western Athletic Conference and its tendency to have games devolve into wild, uncontrolled scorgies, the threshold is 1.000- indicating an average of 100 combined points and 1,000 combined offensive yards. For example, lets go with last year’s Week 1 tilt between Boise State and Georgia Southern, which the Broncos won 56-45. That’s 101 points, or a 1.010. Boise rolled for 651 yards of offense, while the Eagles managed 461, for a total of 1,112 yards, or 1.112. Average them out and we get a 1.061, solidly above the threshold which makes this a certified WACBall game.
In fact, last year’s opening week saw five games hit the threshold, nearly a third of the sixteen we saw for the whole season. Unfortunately, this week has less than that… like zero, and only one game particularly coming close. Combine that with a whopping nine sub-.400 games and its safe to say defense ruled the roost in Week 1. Boo.
Beginning next week, we’ll also start keeping a running tab on each teams WACBall average in our quest to crown both a WACBall and Anti-WAC champion, with New Mexico and Houston looking to retain their crowns, respectively.
CERTIFIED WACBALL GAMES
Sadly, none this week
NEAR WAC EXPERIENCE
- Alabama State 42-52 UAB [.987]
- Eastern Michigan 27-52 Texas State [.894]
- Idaho State 31-38 UNLV [.889]
- Missouri State 13-73 USC [.841]
- Georgia State 7-63 Ole Miss [.828]
LACKED THE WAC
- Miami (OH) 0-17 Wisconsin [.320]
- Idaho 10-13 Washington State [.331]
- Texas 7-14 Ohio State [.375]
- Rice 14-12 Louisiana [.375]
- Wyoming 10-0 Akron [.377]