Re: 2019 Defenses place in history

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Jan 7, 2020, 8:49 PM

55 - Georgia Southern
45 - Texas
65 - Northwestern State(who)
66 - Vanderbilt
42 - Utah State
42 - Florida
36 - Mississippi State
23 - Auburn
46 - Alabama
58 - Ole Miss
56 - Arkansas
50 - Texas A&M
37 - Georgia
63 - Oklahoma

So - to answer your question - I had to post the scores LSU had against their "gauntlet of a schedule"! Georgia Southern and Northwestern State are "gimme games"!
Texas game was a shoot out they won by a TD.
Utah State is a good defensive team but heck Wake scored 38 points on Utah State.
Vanderbilt - Really? Caveat to this game is they also gave up 38 pts.
The Mississippi schools were trash this year! They are normally okay; this year trash.
Arkansas was a dumpster fire.
So you get into Florida and you go "They were pretty good"! Florida struggled with S. Carolina for the better part of that game. Georgia beat them and Georgia has the 62nd ranked offense in the land despite being in the SEC-least!
Auburn was good defensively - much better than their rank. They would have been higher but their offense left them out to dry often! What was the results of that game? *** 23-20 LSU win. They gave up a bunch of yards but only surrendered 23 points.** Alabama - they go into the game with a hurt QB. They get into a shoot out. Bama's defense was not the same Bama defense of old - they had good players of course - but shaky schemes and play calling. Bama was giving up yards and points "TO BAD OFFENSES" let alone an LSU.
A&M and Oklahoma - yawn! Oklahoma missing 3 guys going in was still facing an uphill battle even if those guys had played. Then their 2nd leading tackler got dismissed in the 1st qtr for targeting. I am not as impressed when I keep that in mind. A & M - seemed like they just wanted the season to be over - they too had given up yards and points to much lesser talented teams than LSU - so of course LSU would score.

All of that to say - we have seen this story before. A team from the SEC that scores points in bunches must be heads and shoulders above everyone else! No longer 3 yards and a cloud of dust conference - it's spread and we kill you with speed and Y-Stick routes. I feel we seen this exact story before - our defense this year is not as suited to get after Burrow with our down guys. At least to date they haven't been consistent in applying pressure. But, despite having leads and putting teams in passing situations we haven't surrendered a bunch of yards or points. LSU is different - why? Because they played the above schedule?
Could be. Or history could repeat itself. And our defense will be hailed one of the best ever! Ands statistically they would be!

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