UAB Changes Defensive Coordinator

UAB changes defensive coordinator earlier this month.  Let's take a look at UAB's defensive rank for this season up to last weekend using the Complex Invasion College Football Production Model.  I am starting with the second week of the season, as this gives enough data for the regression results to be fairly representative of the season.  The first week was good as well, but just to be on the safe side, I will start with the second week.  Here is UAB's regular season schedule for 2013, with the results to date including their week-by-week defensive ranking, including their defensive rank overall during their two bye weeks this season.

			UAB's
Opponent	Date	Venue	Def Rank	PF	PA	Result
Troy	8/31/2013	Away		31	34	LOST
LSU	9/7/2013	Away	95	17	56	LOST
	9/14/2013		91
Northwestern St.	9/21/2013	Home	70	52	28	WON
Vanderbilt	9/28/2013	Away	83	24	52	LOST
Fla. Atlantic	10/5/2013	Home	103	23	37	LOST
FIU	10/12/2013	Away	100	27	24	WON
	10/19/2013		85
UTSA	10/26/2013	Away	93	31	52	LOST
Middle Tenn.	11/2/2013	Home
Marshall	11/9/2013	Away
East Carolina	11/16/2013	Away
Rice	11/21/2013	Home
Southern Miss.	11/30/2013	Home

UAB's defense has been in the lower half of the "league" for the entire season, with their best showing in the "league" with their defeat of FCS Northwestern State.  While since the firing of defensive coordinator Reggie Johnson, after the Florida Atlantic loss on Oct. 5th, has resulted in an improvement in defensive ranking, (from 103 out of 125 to 93 out of 125) this is still a rather low production defense.