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This +1000...Miami's offense has been horrible all year, any team with a defense gave them trouble or beat them. Wisconsin's defense had enough up front and in the LB to keep them low'er' scoring. What's wrong with recruiting speed AND power?? Suh, Wistrom, Peters etc... FYI Hornibrook played his rear end off tonight, congrats Wiscy

Total Defense Rankings for the past 10 NCAAF National Champs (total offense ranking in parentheses): *2017 - TBD - Clemson [#6, (#30)], Alabama [#2, (#19)], Georgia [#4, (#35)], Oklahoma[#57, (#1)] - side note, odds are probably not good for OU -> Heisman winner curse AND a total d ranking of 57 yikes!! still hope our old enemy wins it though 2016 - Clemson - #8 (#12) 2015 - Alabama - #3 (#45) 2014 - Ohio State - #19 (#9) 2013 - Florida State - #3 (#6) 2012 - Alabama - #1 (#31) 2011 - Alabama - #1 (#31) 2010 - Auburn - #60 (#7) 2009 - Alabama - #2 (#42) 2008 - Florida - #9 (#15) 2007 - LSU - #3 (#26) For fun: 1997 - Nebraska - #5 (#1) *Michigan was #1 in Total D that year (#44 in total offense!!!) 1995 - Nebraska - #13 (#2) 1994 - Nebraska - #4 (#5) Average Total Defense ranking of the national champions for the last 10 years is: 10.9. If you throw out 2010 Auburn (unless you have Cam Newton you can consider this an outlier) the average is 5.4. The magic number for NC's is in or around the top 10 in total defense. I doubt we want to rest our laurels on a top 20-25 complacency and rely on anything less. As the ole saying goes "offense sells tickets defense wins games"...the numbers don't lie. Average Total Offense was 22.4. So you can have a non-top 10 offense and still win a championship with a top ten defense, not the other way around (again, unless you have Cam Newton and you are Auburn 2010). Let's make sure we have our priorities in order. SF has the tools to make the offense a beast in any conference, that I am sure of. Let's focus on defense and not sell ourselves short with a 20-25 ranked D...unless of course you are 94,95 & 97 Nebraska and are top ten-ish in both O and D and then you got no worries becaus you curb stomp just about everyone.

Drumstick is a frickin legend, my money says he will be N soon in a GA position.

Out of current backs who has the best hands? Wilbon?

Real bummer, after going back and watching some highlights the past 2 years he would have fit nicely in SF's scheme. Hope he recovers, if not wish him the best.

Talent development can more than make up for any lack of talent we may have...I think we will begin to notice some players on the depth chart who were nobody before that start making an impact come game time. Talent development will be key and I have a feeling that SF & Co are going to do very well at it. This was a hallmark of TO/Tenopir/McBride etc.. and SF knows the drill. If we can stay top 25 recruiting class (which we should) I think SF and his staff will be more than able to field B1G CCG teams year in and year out. Occasionally make a splash in the CFP, possibly win it all. Based on what I saw in the B1G CCG from Wiscy we will have no trouble dominating the West. We got this...

I think we can all agree that we don't know exactly what type of offense SF will put on the field but we can make an educated guess as to what it will look like based on his past body of work at UCF/Oregon. That being said, I'm curious what you guys think of Tre Bryant recovering and how he fits in to SF's scheme? I was impressed by the kid this year and I havn't heard much about him since the injury. Nice hands on this TD grab:

Exactly what I was thinking. I didn't want to discourage the kid but Gebbia seems small and doesn't have the downfield arm that SF may need in his scheme. Gebbia is slightly better on the run. POB has good arm strength and serviceable legs. I think he is a good bet to start but who knows.

Seeking wise counsel from McBride is wonderful...we are going places now, stoked!!!

76-39....shhhhhhh

You live in Chicago and I live in Hawaii therefore I win...still think he should have gotten the Heisman, and yes this play should have counted towards his body of work in 2009, thanks for pissing on our fun time here on this thread

Radical...thank you for sharing. You know he was special when he got so much respect from everyone, even hated rival fans (see UT).

On this play alone Suh should have won it. Nothing in the history of college football more savage than a DT intercepting the pass, stiff arming the QB (the opposing coaches son no less), running him over and scoring a TD....

POB, looks like he can run Frost's scheme, very similar to what he was doing in HS.

Bingo...and yes I'd work extra hours to coach UCF and take care of the transition/recruiting at UNL for 5 million+ a year.

Fear not Husker fans, when your coach does stuff like this: http://www.espn.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/138889/ucf-coach-scott-frosts-new-role-scout-team-quarterback all will be well. All players are going to buy in, and follow this guy to the gates of hell and back if need be. That includes the offensive line...which may not be so offensive next year. Relax, our return to prominence is in the mail. From the AD on down the program is coming back around to where it should be. We good..

Two possible scenarios, both of which depend on which Auburn team shows up: Scenario 1: Auburn lost the SEC CCG and doesn't care about the bowl game having squandered their chance at getting into the CFP - UCF shows up with chip on their shoulder losing coach and being disrespected so they play with fire and keep it close, maybe even winning the game. Scenario 2: Auburn lost the SEC CCG in the same location and newly extended coach/team are fired up for payback and ending the season on a good note - UCF shows up with chip on their shoulder losing coach and being disrespected so they play with fire but Auburn came to play and destroys..parts of Milton found scattered across southern states, T Smith is in concussion protocol until 2048. Key to this game: Auburn's DLine vs UCF OLine #Drumstick will get at least one sack and one interception in this game... Don't get me wrong I hope UCF wins and ends the season undefeated but this is not USF/Memphis...Auburn is one of the big boys and has played the #1 team three times (beat UGA/Bama, lost to Clemson OOC) and won twice this year so we will see what 12-0 in AAC land means. Good luck Knights!

Bama still has a top 10 SoS with Mercer. Auburn scheduled Clemson OOC. When we start scheduling defending NC's in our OOC we can start asking questions about others. We almost lost to a Sun Belt team this year and most years during TO's time the BIg 8 was filled with doormats (KSU, ISU etc..). It is what it is.

Bingo

Two possible scenarios, both of which depend on which Auburn team shows up: Scenario 1: Auburn lost the SEC CCG and doesn't care about the bowl game having squandered their chance at getting into the CFP - UCF shows up with chip on their shoulder losing coach and being disrespected so they play with fire and keep it close, maybe even winning the game. Scenario 2: Auburn lost the SEC CCG in the same location and newly extended coach/team are fired up for payback and ending the season on a good note - UCF shows up with chip on their shoulder losing coach and being disrespected so they play with fire but Auburn came to play and destroys..parts of Milton found scattered across southern states, T Smith is in concussion protocol until 2048. Key to this game: Auburn's DLine vs UCF OLine #Drumstick will get at least one sack and one interception in this game... Don't get me wrong I hope UCF wins and ends the season undefeated but this is not USF/Memphis...Auburn is one of the big boys and has played the #1 team three times (beat UGA/Bama, lost to Clemson OOC) and won twice this year so we will see what 12-0 in AAC land means. Good luck Knights!

This logic fails to make sense: the bottom feeders in the SEC are still more stout than in the B1G. Or perhaps you belivethat Rutgers/Maryland/Illinois/Nebraska(sorry but this year we were atrocious) are world beaters? Top to bottom they have a stronger conference so 8 SEC games roughly equals 9 B1G games. Id still rather play on the road at Purdue when they are having a good year than playing in the swamp when Florida is down. When we get our crap together as a program AND as a conference top to bottom we can start complaining about other conferences. We are frequent flyers (and this year almost losers) in the land of Sun Belts so we don't have much room to run our mouths. Get our own house in order then we can start having expectations. As of right now tOSU and PSU are the only teams really taking care of business in our conference. Everyone else, including Wiscosin, is a few steps behind.

After watching Wisconsin and tOSU play I'm sorry but neither of those teams beats Bama. Bama's defense would have a field day against slower Wiscy and would shut down not-so-great-passer Barrett. The B1G game was far more lopsided than the score leads you to believe. Wiscy looked overmatched and the speed difference was astonishing. I'm not buying into the tOSU bandwagon this year they did not iimpress in the CCG. Besides, tOSU got stomped in the shoe by OU...early in the season or not that tells you something: Columbus is not an easy place to win any year. The JT Barrett apologists seem to forget this guy has been a captain for 3 years with one of the best coaches in the game today; no excuses. Bama loses a close game to Auburn at their house when Auburn was peaking (Auburn has #1 SoS this year btw)...much better 'loss' than laying an egg vs Iowa and getting blown out at home by OU. Sorry the committee got this one right tOSU had no business being in the CFP and Wiscy either. We need to learn to let our football do the talking and stop worrying about stuff like this. Win games and let the rankings take care of themselves...there is no cospiracy when you stomp everyone in your path (see 94,95 and 97 Neb).

After Diaco/Banker/Cosgrove I'd give a major organ donation to have Venables on our sideline. One can dream...

When I heard this I was encouraged. Havn't heard anything yet from Lincoln but wanted to start a thread for updates on what went down if anyone else hears anything. Who was there? What was said? This is a good sign for the future.

Thank you this made my day...