National Champion, mediocre to bad defense

gmo

I don't think many here are dooging so hard as to predict a national championship this year.

But the real thought of a potential playoff had me thinking... when was the last time a mediocre to bad defense won the whole thing? I believe it has been more than 25 years.

gmo

Maybe the better measure is AVERAGE defense. Could probably put some of the USC national champs in that category or close to it. Potentially Florida in the mid-90's.
Perhaps the better question is, can the Huskies get to average on that side of the ball?!

theknowledge

LSU a couple years ago was a statistically average defense.

haie

theknowledge said:

LSU a couple years ago was a statistically average defense.

This is what the Beta Rank episode pretty much said:

UW pass defense was like bottom 5 teams in power 5. Have to at least be average. Pass rush shouldn't be an issue.

They should still lean on Penix.

Long term they need to be better than 35 national average in recruiting.

gmo

theknowledge said:

LSU a couple years ago was a statistically average defense.

I thought the same as I was asking, so I looked it up. They were 27th in the country in Scoring Defense (129 teams) \
https://www.espn.com/college-football/stats/team/_/view/defense/stat/total/season/2019/table/passing/sort/totalPointsPerGame/dir/asc

32nd in Yardage
https://www.espn.com/college-football/stats/team/_/view/defense/season/2019/stat/total/table/passing/sort/yardsPerGame/dir/asc

25th in the NCAA's in Total Defense.
https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/2019/team/22

Canadawg

Bring back real football where you can hit the QB and rbs can't get defenders kicked out of the game by lowering their own head

haie

Canadawg said:

Bring back real football where you can hit the QB and rbs can't get defenders kicked out of the game by lowering their own head

You only half to break half of Caleb Williams' fingernail nowadays.

What more do you want?

dannarc

Oklahoma's defense has been terrible during their last _____ playoff visits