Week 5 Recap: Iowa (Part 2)

Now that the dust has settled, let's take a deeper look at Indiana's matchup against Iowa.

Due to a delay from one of BSB’s data sources, Part 2 of this week’s Recap has been released as a continuation of Part 1 (read here). Thank you for your patience.

ALSO, In case you missed the immediate Week 5 takeaways Saturday night in the BSB Chat, I’ve linked them here. Many of them are expanded upon in this Recap series.

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Adjusted EPA/Play

The chart below conveys each team’s offensive and defensive EPA/play, adjusted for strength of opponent and homefield advantage using ridge regression. This attributes some of a team’s performance to the understood strengths and weaknesses of its opponents and its own performance at home. These opponent strengths are living variables that change as the season progresses. For example, as Old Dominion continues to win, the pull on Indiana’s EPA/play will begin to relax for the stronger opponent.