Memphis Tigers Football: Comparing the start from years past

The 3-0 Memphis Tigers have a bye week this week so we took a look at the last 3 seasons and compared the first 3 games to this year to see where they rank.

Comparing the years- Offense

Year	Record	Total Offense	Passing	Rushing	Scoring Offense

2019	3-0	31st	48th	31st	35th
2018	2-1	4th	40th	4th	13th
2017	3-0	36th	41st	34th	35th
2016	3-0	34th	26th	56th	5th

As you can see from the chart above the Tigers are not as good as they were last year offensively from a stats standpoint.

Comparing the years- Defense

Year	Record	Total Defense	Pass Defense	Rush Defense	Scoring Defense

2019	3-0	5th	3rd	46th	17th
2018	2-1	9th	2nd	78th	39th
2017	3-0	126th	127th	100th	114th
2016	3-0	16th	26th	25th	5th

An interesting fact-

Mike Norvell has never started 4-0 at Memphis. In 2016 and 2017 when the Tigers started 3-0 they lost the 4th game to go 3-1.

The last time Memphis started 4-0 was in 2015. That was Justin Fuente's last year. They won their first 8 games before losing 4 out of their last 5 games.