Bye week bad?

[NT93]

Interesting bit of information from the Cal/WF game.  The WF coach did a study going back 20 years and the team coming off a bye week was at a disadvantage in the game following the bye week.  Due to getting out of a routine…at least that’s the thought as to why.

[Graddean]

The advantage of the bye is an extra week to prepare for a different kind of offense like the one Army runs.

[97and03]

2 hours ago, Graddean said:

The advantage of the bye is an extra week to prepare for a different kind of offense like the one Army runs.

Yes in this case it is prob quite useful to prepare for a totally different scheme. Or it would be if we had a real DC.

So in our case it is mostly helpful because of all the injuries we have. 

[Ian Campbell]

I’ve noticed this trend anecdotally for many years now, especially in the McCarney and Littrell eras. Seemed we played worse after a bye. Here’s hoping we’ve overcome that and learned to use bye weeks to our advantage. It makes sense, like others have said, that an Army bye would be much needed.

[NT93]

I didn’t really post this because we had a bye last week, it just kind of worked out that way.  I just thought it was interesting that the assumption that a bye week is advantageous was proven false by 20 years of data according to the WF coach.

[Mean Green 93-98]

It's somewhat dated, but I just found this: https://fbschedules.com/are-bye-weeks-really-an-advantage-in-college-football/

I would think that under our particular circumstances, our bye week was well-timed and should help us.  But it does appear that that's not usually the case.