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wow...this is honestly one of the dumbest posts ever...

first off, that's the NFL, so it has no relevance at all.

Just because I'm a nice guy, I'll explain to you why that is such a dumb post as if it were relevant anyway

2001 - Patriots 7th best defense allowing 17 PPG
2003 - Patriots #1 allowing 14.8 PPG
2004 - Patriots #2 defense allowing 16.25 PPG

weird...

No need for full R word 24/7

Mods please ban

I think recent history is certainly behind you there. However, I'd argue that most (if not all) of the examples of defense over offense have been games with at least a month for that defense to prepare. I think that tends to benefit the defense more so than the offense, but that's JMO.

Fair enough...but that's college football.

And I think referencing more than a full recruiting cycle back is useless information other than a few things I.e. (recruiting, tradition, national buzz).

College football rapidly changes

Hey, which schools traditionally have the best defenses in the south, in other words, which ones can we say
play like a Western Defense?

A lot of BUMP & run, and physical defenses out here in the west. Do you guys think it is just a schematic
advantage and better coaches, or is it just having better players in the west that allows them to dominate
the north and south like this for the past 12 years. I think it's probably of little bit of both.

I don't want you guys to think I was just picking on the south,
so here is the Pac's domination over the northern AQ Big Ten teams as well.

--------2000-2012-----------
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PAC 12....(39-28) 26.4 ppg
Big Ten....(28-39) 24.6 ppg

Combine the (39-28) with the (32-21) record vs Southern AQ's,
and the Pac12 is (71-49) vs the North and South AQ's since 2000.

I would imagine most people are surprised to find out that West Coast offenses have torched
Southern AQ schools defenses for 30 pts per game on average for over a decade now,
and that's with more than 50 games played, not just a handful.

Especially the younger people that read this board, they probably really fall for that fictional stuff
people try to sell them on here about the south playing better defense than the west.
Haha, the great southern defense is really just a "boogie man" story.

This and I have said this all along Assasian

FSU's defense gets better and better each week and remember they lost 2 senior starters who were both all america candidates and shoe ins for all acc honors

And in that Clemson game we shut them down in the second and went on a 35-3 run in the final 16 mins

Also shut down all their skill guys for the most part

Oregon has not proven they can do such a thing

FSU's defense isn't elite yet, but its very good and close to becoming elite