Week 13 Discussion

[Coach Rab]

Didn’t have time this week but...

UCF suffers major blow:

https://es.pn/2Afbw2I

[topher805]

Wazzu loses sixth straight to Washington...Conditions were wild

[Valhalla]

It’s amazing what a good offense is able to against that “mighty” Michigan defense.

[Coach Rab]

The most interesting thing happening today is Kliff May get fired...

[DB2point0]

11 minutes ago, MavGrad99 said:

The most interesting thing happening today is Kliff May get fired...

You think LSU would consider him as OC?

[Valhalla]

2 minutes ago, DB2point0 said:

You think LSU would consider him as OC?

They should, but they won’t.

[DB2point0]

5 minutes ago, Valhalla said:

They should, but they won’t.

If I were Aranda I’d look to go elsewhere if O doesn’t get help on offense.  

[Valhalla]

[Valhalla]

[Valhalla]

[MrBuddyGarrity]

Meyer owns Harbaugh. 

[Coach Rab]

48 minutes ago, DB2point0 said:

You think LSU would consider him as OC?

I think they are happy with Ensmenger or however you spell it

[JohnnyFootball]

14 minutes ago, Valhalla said:

That works both ways, though. A really good defense can shut down an offense like Georgia did to Oklahoma when it mattered last year. Fact is, you need to be at least decent in all 3 phases of the game. You can't be elite if you only have offense or only have defense. And what I like about Jimbo is that his offense, while not great, helps the defense out quite a bit. Oklahoma's offense doesn't help their defense at all. They score too quickly or punt the ball in 90 seconds and their defense is on the field a lot. 

[Valhalla]

Just now, JohnnyFootball said:

That works both ways, though. A really good defense can shut down an offense like Georgia did to Oklahoma when it mattered last year. Fact is, you need to be at least decent in all 3 phases of the game. You can't be elite if you only have offense or only have defense. And what I like about Jimbo is that his offense, while not great, helps the defense out quite a bit. Oklahoma's offense doesn't help their defense at all. They score too quickly or punt the ball in 90 seconds and their defense is on the field a lot. 

You are 100% correct. 

But the committee is more favorable to teams who have a “good” defense than they are a “good” offense.

That’s the point. 

[Valhalla]

5 minutes ago, JohnnyFootball said:

That works both ways, though. A really good defense can shut down an offense like Georgia did to Oklahoma when it mattered last year. Fact is, you need to be at least decent in all 3 phases of the game. You can't be elite if you only have offense or only have defense. And what I like about Jimbo is that his offense, while not great, helps the defense out quite a bit. Oklahoma's offense doesn't help their defense at all. They score too quickly or punt the ball in 90 seconds and their defense is on the field a lot. 

Also though at least last season, Riley would try to be conservative in the 2nd halves and milk the clock and it always resulted in the other team making it a game again. Even against Georgia that happened. Oklahoma’s defense is incapable of being consistent regardless if the offense is “helping” the defense. 

So just do what you have to do to win.

[JohnnyFootball]

11 minutes ago, Valhalla said:

You are 100% correct. 

But the committee is more favorable to teams who have a “good” defense than they are a “good” offense.

That’s the point. 

They are? Have they said that? Or did they do something that makes you feel that way?

[Valhalla]

2 minutes ago, JohnnyFootball said:

They are? Have they said that? Or did they do something that makes you feel that way?

Every week when they explain the rankings they have been sure to discuss problems with the defenses of Oklahoma, Ohio State, UCF, and etc, and how they are “incomplete” teams. 

You don’t hear those same discussions about teams with a good defense and a below average/bad offense like Michigan, LSU, Florida, and etc.

[HearEmaGrowlin]

Well, Michigan looked like doo doo today. 

[Mr. P]

Plenty of hot takes torching Twitter right now...   

This Michigan defense got totally exposed today. Would have been destroyed against Bama, Georgia, Oklahoma or Clemson in the playoff. Slow, undisciplined and overrated. Played mostly crappy Big Ten offenses all year with zero speed or quality quarterback play.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) November 24, 2018

Funny this comes the morning after all the griping about OU-WVU defenses.

Michigan is Exhibit A that a great defense can only get you so far in 2018. You better have a QB and an offense that can produce big plays of its own.

That’s why Nick Saban adapted. Not sure Harbaugh has

— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) November 24, 2018

Looking for that defense that gets played everywhere outside the Big12. pic.twitter.com/KLpUMbAGND

— Lauren Rew (@Lauren_Rew) November 24, 2018

You are seeing live & in full color what dynamic offenses can do to very good defenses.
This is why, with an ‘incomplete’ team, the committee’s lean to defense is the wrong lean.
Defense is important. But you’d better have an offense—because this can happen to your good defense.

— George Schroeder (@GeorgeSchroeder) November 24, 2018

[trueblue82]

Gus has a plan:

 

[Sportsfanatic1]

1 hour ago, AKA said:

Plenty of hot takes torching Twitter right now...   

I'm not a guru but I told you OU can up end in the playoffs. Win or lose that's a great thing in the scheme of things.

[trueblue82]

With all the talk about targeting this year and which ones should be called or not, they got one right in the Iron Bowl. That’s the kind of hit they’re trying to eliminate. 

[Mr. P]

52 minutes ago, DTrump said:

I'm not a guru but I told you OU can up end in the playoffs. Win or lose that's a great thing in the scheme of things.

Yeah, no doubt. Of course, they still have Texas to take care of...  but if they do, they certainly have a strong case to make. 

[MeanGreenDogs64]

Ugly game for us. We beat a terrible UTSA team 24-21