LSU Total O and Total D Ranking during Chavis tenure

That will depend on what agenda you have.

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Haven't verified that it goes back 15 yrs.

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It does. Just go to archives.

Total Defense:
2014 9

Total Offense:
2014 77

Looks like a manual process...anyone seen another source where it's broken out all together?

Not sure how to get the past years being team specific, but here is LSUs for this year.

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So time where Chavis was DC, LSU was 22 or better in nation in total D while being 40 or worse (70 or worse throwing out Mett's year) in total O.

That is yds/game. Look more toward efficiency. Yds/play and what not. We simply will not lead in yds/game running 20% less plays then half of college football. Total yds on defense, while it looks good, will also be less when the defense isn't on the field much. Similar to what we saw this year. This is not to say Chavis has been bad, but those numbers tell only a part of the tale.

Scoring, while not terribly important ( ), is also worth looking at.

Scoring D
2014 - 4
2013 - 21
2012 - 12
2011 - 2
2010 - 11
2009 - 11
2008 - 56

Scoring O
2014 - 76
2013 - 23
2012 - 57
2011 - 17
2010 - 45
2009 - 76
2008 - 30

Don't have info to do so...stopped at 2009 so it includes all of Chavis tenure...updated Subject to reflect.

rankings are completely and totally meaningless. quick and easy example:

LSU was 4th in scoring defense this year and 12th two years ago. they gave up 17.5 ppg each time.

another example:

LSU led the SEC in total defense at 316.8 ypg. here's where that exact same 316.8 ypg would rank in the SEC in other seasons:

2013 - 3rd
2012 - 5th
2011 - 6th
2010 - 4th
2009 - 5th
2008 - 7th

we didn't get better than everyone else this year, they just got worse.

rankings tell you nothing, the actual numbers are all that matters.

Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas.

Didn't bother actually looking up the statistics because there's no way that we're worse than each of those schools.