I decided to do a comparison of offenses' outputs in the MAC today. You can't look at a single year, or just a couple, because then the numbers get skewed a lot by things like personnel and injuries. Therefore I went back to 2010, which should, for most teams, include at least a couple iterations of players.

Here is the averages for Yards of Total Offense and Average points since 2010. The offenses seem to break into a few groupings, so I put a line between the various logical groupings I see.

A
NIU 475.2 37.6
Toledo 442.4 33.7
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B
WMU 414.1 29.1
Ball State 401.5 29.3
Ohio 396.6 28.0
BG 387.6 27.5
Temple 358.7 27.8
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C
CMU 377.2 24.4
Buffalo 371.4 23.2
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D
Miami 340.6 19.4
Akron 336.5 19.5
EMU 329.4 19.6
Kent 324.9 21.8
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F
UMass 305.6 15.6

I went one more step, and divided the yardage by the points. Teams that were effective at moving the ball, but not able to score (like Ohio last week against BG) would have a high number. As extreme cases, Ohio's number was 39.5 last week, while BG was at 11.5. So, which offenses have been the most efficient at scoring?

NIU 12.7
Temple 12.9
Toledo 13.1
Ball State 13.7
Ohio 14.1
BG 14.1
WMU 14.2
Kent 14.9
CMU 15.4
Buffalo 16.0
EMU 16.8
Akron 17.2
Miami 17.5
UMass 19.5

I'll try to look at defenses tomorrow, if I have time.