Week 1 vs. Notre Dame: 543 yards.
Week 2 vs. Houston: 524 yards.
Week 3 vs. FCS Fordham: 520 yards.
Week 4: Thankfully, zero. They were on a bye.
Four weeks into the 2013 college football season and the Temple Owls (0-3) rank 119th out 125 FBS schools in the nation in yards allowed per game, with 529.
What exactly is wrong?
Well, the defensive line hasn't generated much of a pass rush, which only exacerbates the issues the secondary already has in coverage. If you're a Philadelphia football fan, this should sound vaguely familiar.
"It is tough seeing that our pass defense is near the bottom of all of college football," senior safety Abdul Smith said Wednesday, as his team went through its second week of preparation for Idaho (0-4) this Saturday.
Temple's pass defense is actually third-to-last in the country, allowing 326.7 yards per game, ahead of only Illinois and Texas State. The Owls have allowed four receivers to put up more than 100 yards and one receiver in every game to go for at least 138. Houston's Deontay Greenberry said after his 14-catch, 165-yard performance in Week 2 that he knew he could get open on deep post routes. Not exactly what you want to hear from opposing receivers about going over the middle.
As opponents have been throwing all over, Temple has become the only team in the American Athletic Conference and one of only eight teams in the nation not to force an interception. The Owls have recorded five sacks, but have brought down the quarterback only once in two of their three games.
"College football is kind of changing. College football can't be about yards any more," head coach Matt Rhule said. "The average in the NCAA is like 470 right now. It's really about points. It's always been that way, but you really have to think about points.
"And the bright spot for us has been our red-zone defense. Down inside the 10, we've been really stout."
That has been the bright spot, and it's kept Temple's losses from being much worse than they could have been, or maybe should have been.
In 12 opponent trips to the red zone this season, Temple has ceded only four touchdowns, otherwise holding opponents to five field goals, two turnovers on downs and one missed field goal.
Houston, for example, found the end zone only once in eight drives from inside the Temple 20.
"We have sparks, like when we get in the red zone," Smith said. "We're a top-20 red-zone defense."
Actually, they're 10th.
"We feel like, if we could just play the way we play red-zone defense ... "
Or even if they just found a way to be a little less erratic. Temple has recorded the 28th-most tackles for loss in the country. That's encouraging. But the defense is either blowing up plays behind the line or getting beat badly over the top, by guys like Greenberry, Notre Dame's T.J. Jones (6 for 138) and DaVaris Daniels (3 for 69, two TDs) and Fordham's Sam Ajala (7 for 134) and Tebucky Jones (7 for 109).
"We've just got to keep making progress and listening to the coaches," Smith said.
The man in charge of the defense is defensive coordinator Phil Snow, who most recently coached at Eastern Michigan before Temple, but previously worked with the NFL's Detroit Lions and as the defensive coordinator at Washington, UCLA, Arizona State and Boise State.
Like offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield on the other side of the ball, Snow is in his first season at Temple and trying to implement his own defense.
In four seasons, Temple has had three different head coaches and three different defensive coordinators. So whether it's a true freshman or a fifth-year senior, it's an adjustment.
"We're putting the program in place," Rhule said. "One thing you have to understand any time you're installing a new process, there are going to be issues. You have to continue to develop it and we're going to continue to develop until we do it at a high level.
"What we're not going to do -- I didn't come here to panic and say, 'Let's do this different, let's do that different.' We're going to grow the players into it. That's what I've seen work.
"Last week, we blitzed, we played coverage, we did all those things. To me, the issue is, if you're supposed to cover a guy, cover him. There's no way to get around that.
"We just have to keep coaching and coaching and coaching until a light goes on."