re: ESPN - The Day Defense Died in College Football

It's stupid that they included the LSU game in this article. As if seven overtimes that all start just outside of the redzone are anything close to an actual representation of football.

As for college football, in general, has this person been living under a rock? He's just noticed that teams aren't playing defense?

The SEC and, to a lesser extent, the Big Ten are the only conferences that still play any defense. The ACC has a couple of decent defenses every year. Other conferences decided years ago that they'd rather concentrate their resources on the offensive side of the ball, and just hope that they can score enough points to win games. They can't compete for the top athletes, so they rely on fast paced, wide open offense to try to negate their lack of physicality.

It's not an accident this has happened. It's a choice most teams have made to commit to one side of the ball.