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Evans Hall: Pac-12 Points Per Possession

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As an economics alum I have a slight obsession with efficiency. In this installment I will look at how well each Pac-12 team utilized their offensive possessions and defended their foes' possessions.

Economics is often thought of as a subject where only grand aggregate numbers such as GDP, GNI, and M3 money supply. Economics also focuses on how efficient these numbers are on a per person/industry basis. David Ricardo theorized Comparative Advantage in terms of maximizing each nation's efficiency in trade.

In this article I will try to translate the understanding of efficiency into college football (Prof.