re: Defensive Stop Rate Rankings

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1. Penn State 88.9%
2. Duke 88.6%
3. Michigan 87.8%
4. Oklahoma 85.7%
5. Ohio State 85.3%
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8. Georgia 83.8%
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16. Alabama 78.7%
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49. FSU 68.1%
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81. Colorado 61.2%
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107. LSU 53.1%

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A lot of this is very subjective 4 games in. Penn St has not played 1 good offense. They have played 3 FBS/power 5 games, and only once did any of those teams score more than 24 points in ANY of their other 3 games. Michigan has played dirt as competition, UGA has played one good offense, and had that team had a good OL, they would have been in a dog fight til the end instead of being down at half time. Oklahoma has played nobody. Sure you can say something about Cincinnati, but Cincinnati's numbers are inflated by who they've played.

LSU has played 3 teams that have scored at least 30+ points in 3 of 4 games they've played. Most of the other teams that you've just mentioned above have played teams that have scored less than 24 points in a game BEFORE that team played them.

LSU has lapses in judgements on coverage (i blame players from not just doing their jobs and letting others do their own jobs too), and Maason Smith not being "that guy", but I believe we can and will get better.

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I can’t remember an LSU defense being this horrible.

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The LSU Class of 1993 watched 4 straight years of defenses worse than this one.