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Disagree completely. That was the two best teams in the country playing "grown up" football. I really enjoyed the tremendous defensive effort by Bama that they sustained throughout the game.

Both would manhandle us and probably any team in the Big 12.

Maybe. But we'll never know how they would have fared against Okie State,

They would probably beat us by a healthy margin, but then again their pedestrian offenses might make our defense look better. I know our offense would put points on the board.

what did they see in Alabama's QB besides how well he apparently held snaps?

I'll admit though, I fell asleep and missed quite a bit of the game... wasn't trying to though

When your QB runs backward on an option and drives the pitchman deeper into the backfield and won't make the LB commit to you..

People are delusional if they believe SEC defenses only look good because they believe the SEC doesn't have good offenses. Bama, despite playing LSU (second best D in nation) twice, finished 12th nationally in yards/play...that's Big 12 good. Total offense is not relevant as SEC schools don't play up tempo and thus run far fewer plays.

That game was ugly, for sure. However, our defense would get DOMINATED by either of their offenses...they would grind us up...shred us. Our offense might score 21-24 points, but no more. Arkansas has a great offense, Big 12 good, and got manhandled by both of those defenses.

SEC is a different brand of football and they are the best league in the nation.

I think Boise st would have beat either one of those teams last night. Peterson is a great "big game" coach.

Opinions are like....

Unfortunately, we'll never know until we have playoffs (insert Mora voiceover here).

so, in order to play "grown up" football, you have to field an absolutely pathetic offense?

i will give both LSU's and Alabama's defenses all the credit in the world. they are great, and any team in the country would have trouble moving the ball and scoring against them, but for those two offenses to play 8 quarters, score 36 total points (between the two teams!), and one freakin' TD is the definition of inept...i don't care how great the defenses are!

If Alabama was going to pressure Briles in that manner he'd adjust his playcalling. Not run an option 7 yards deep and retreating.

IMO, Brian's last post goes to the root of why LSU looked as bad as they did. LSU did nothing to adapt in the game. They kept running the same plays over and over again and they executed them poorly. It was almost like watching the definition of insanity played out literally.

At one point I swear it looked like Jefferson wanted to make sure the RB was going to get smoked by two LB's before he pitched it to him. Jefferson never kept Bama honest because he never kept the ball. Not once did he make the DE of LB's commit to him which never opened up the pitch. You can't run the option if you string the play out every time and then pitch it to the RB while he runs out of bounds.

I'm not saying we win, not at all. Sorry guys I just think we still have a little ways to go before that, but I do think we would have put a couple TD's on the board. The main reason being we would have made adjustments and have a few more wrinkles in our zone read.

There are two points. The first is about the statement that you know we would have put up points on either of them. You say, on the one hand, that we don't know how Okie State would have fared because they did not play LSU or Bama. By the same reasoning, you cannot say that you know we would have put up points, because we did not play them either.

The second point was about your reference to both offenses as "pedestrian." My comment was simply that even pedestrian offenses have done well against us. The season bears that out.

i'll agree that both teams absolutely play "grown up" defense. however, both teams are average, on their best day, on the offensive side of the ball.

Auburn managed to play solid, physical defense last season, and the coupled it with a dynamic offense.

to your point about offense vs defense in the BCS championship game, last season featured 2 very high-powered offenses, and there are countless examples of offense carrying teams to championships in college football. yes, this year's BCS championship game featured two teams with excellent defenses, and meh offenese, but teams like OU, USC, UT, Florida, Auburn, etc have ridden their offenses to titles over the past decade or so.