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2014 Total Offense and Defense
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2014 Total Offense and Defense


Aug 21, 2015, 11:47 AM
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I had been getting fed up about hearing all the pundits talk about the ACC being the 5th best of the Power 5 conferences, so I did a little exercise comparing total defense and offense rankings for all of the Power 5 schools, broken up by conference. I then averaged each entire conference, and then did an average for the top half and bottom half. The results were quite interesting (see attached).

Not only was the ACC not the worst conference, but they were nipping at the heels of the SEC for the #1 overall conference in terms of yardage gained/allowed per game, with a decent gap between these two conferences to the next 3 conferences.

The Big 12 and Big 10 had the biggest discrepancy from the top half to the bottom half. The Pac 12 was the most balanced, with the ACC right behind them.

As most have said all along, the top half of the SEC is definitely the strongest, but I have always maintained that the bottom half of that league is just as bad as everyone else. This would seem to show that.

South Carolina fans make fun of weak ACC schools like Wake Forest, Syracuse, and BC, yet they belong to a collection of 7 schools that actually rank worse than the group that those ACC schools belong to.

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Yeah, the thing that annoys be about the SEC hype isn't that


Aug 21, 2015, 12:01 PM

the top teams get the hype, it's that the entire conference gets it. They want to convince you that even teams like Vandy and Kentucky (and the Mississippi schools in previous years) are sending a different level of athlete out there on the field, and that those teams would finish in the top half of any other conference in the country when that stuff simply isn't true.

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Re: 2014 Total Offense and Defense


Aug 21, 2015, 12:20 PM

Just win baby.

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Re: 2014 Total Offense and Defense


Aug 21, 2015, 12:41 PM

I saw on the bottom line on esucsecpn yesterday that ole siss led the nation in scoring defense last year. How many times have you seen that Clemson led the nation in total defense last year. Never hear about this, nor have I seen it on the bottom line scroll. Not that I don't do everything I can not to watch esucsecpn. Was that a double or a triple negative that I just posted. Is that a first? What was I just talking about?

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Re: 2014 Total Offense and Defense


Aug 21, 2015, 1:22 PM

ACC also played the toughest OOC schedules since 2012 per The Vegas Insider and was a respectable 5-7 in bowl games last year. All of which adds even more credence to those statistics.

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