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Lots of penalties doesn't always equal a loss

By Bruce Feldman

Thursday, September 25, 2008

In fishing around some stats about Tennessee's penalty woes this season (more on the drop-off below), I noticed something. If you look at this year and the 2007 season, there seem to be two characteristics common among the top 10 least penalized teams: one, there were many schools that are usually pegged as "the academic schools" in 1-A football (In the '07 stats, Army and Navy were tied for No. 1, which probably shouldn't be a surprise given how vital discipline is at those schools, followed by ...

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