Doc Sat: Can Great O and Avg D win it all?
Doc Sat's take on Auburn. Auburn, has a great O and a very mediocre D, and will be playing in the SEC title game. But can they win a national title?
November 23rd, 2010 at 8:03 PM ^
better worry about beating Alabama first.
November 23rd, 2010 at 8:03 PM ^
beat Bama in the Iron Bowl.
November 23rd, 2010 at 8:30 PM ^
but if they pull through, I am looking at the Cocks to shock the world. It was close the first time they played, 35-27. The ole ball coach will have something this time around to top Cam & company.
November 23rd, 2010 at 10:01 PM ^
Well said, I respect Coach Superior. He'll have something for Auburn.
November 24th, 2010 at 9:03 AM ^
as hell know MY cock can shock the world
November 23rd, 2010 at 8:07 PM ^
... I'm not one for cliches like "Defense wins championships", but the fact that not one BCS champion in recent memory has been rated lower than a top 10 total defense... Well, that's something to chew on, anyway.
November 23rd, 2010 at 8:10 PM ^
November 23rd, 2010 at 8:12 PM ^
championships, great offenses win fans (and TV ratings).
The most dangerous teams are usually the balanced teams ala Wisconsin this year.
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:06 PM ^
At first I thought you were talking about us and I thought "mediocre D" - that's generous. But now I see what you were talking about.
On this subject--defense wins championships. It is possible for them to win. It should be a good game.
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:42 PM ^
I don't like to hear the argument that all we need is to pair a mediocre defense with our explosive offense. We need an above-average defense, in my view, to win a NC. Offenses can sputter from time to time, and I don't think we are immune to that. If we want to go 12-0 and win a NC, we need a Defense that can cover a sputtering offense from time to time. That is the difference between 9-3 or 10-2 and 12-0.
Having said that, I'll take a mediocre defensive performance this Saturday.
Go BLue !
November 24th, 2010 at 1:02 AM ^
10-2 and 12-0 is luck. No matter what happens you need things to bounce your way at some point in order for a BCS team to go undefeated
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:57 PM ^
...Alabama and LSU (the two top contenders for the SEC West crown) love to establish the run. Auburn is the #11 rush defense.
November 23rd, 2010 at 10:27 PM ^
However, there are some great passing attacks that Auburn has defeated, correct? I'm thinking of Arkansas without looking up stats. And, as has been pointed out, they still have to beat Bama, beat SC again, and then beat a team that has a great offense and defense. In the case of Oregon, the offense they'll face is better than theirs is.
If they do manage to win a national title, it would be pretty incredible.
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:50 PM ^
When they played Arkansas, wasn't that when Mallett went out with a concussion?
November 24th, 2010 at 12:32 AM ^
I lay (or is it lie?) in bed dreaming that Michigan has a mediocre defense. As I drift to sleep on a cloud of rainbows and pillows, I can almost feel GERG rubbing a sort, furry, stuffed badger in my special place.
November 24th, 2010 at 2:32 AM ^
You just made a weird situation feel ever weirder.
November 24th, 2010 at 2:42 AM ^
least he didn't say GERG's beaver.
November 24th, 2010 at 3:18 AM ^
I've gotten neg-bombed to hell for this train of thought today, but it seems to me you're a lot more likely to win with a great defense than with a bad defense that depends on the offense to outscore whatever it gives up. Why wouldn't you want to depend on your offense for 2-3 scores instead of 5-6? And why is it so controversial to think you'd be a lot more successful in the former scenario than the latter?
November 24th, 2010 at 10:12 AM ^
The line of thought you're advancing - "Why wouldn't you want to depend on your offense for 2-3 scores instead of 5-6?" - assumes there are people here who want to depend on the offense to put up 35-42 points a game. Which is false. Nobody's arguing in favor of having a mediocre defense. Everybody here wants a '97 defense. Nobody is saying, "because our offense is good, let's not worry about defense."
November 24th, 2010 at 8:54 AM ^
When I read the title of the post, I thought you were referring to THE GAME. Then I realized we don't have a mediocre defense and I got depressed again.